Band 5 Trainee Outreach Nurse

Job Introduction

Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to build or develop your career in sexual health?

We’re looking for a Sexual Health Outreach Nurse to join our friendly, multidisciplinary team – delivering vital services to young people, vulnerable adults, and communities across Rochdale, Oldham, and Bury .

This is a unique opportunity to work beyond traditional clinical settings , supporting patients in outreach environments such as schools, colleges, and community hubs , alongside our established sexual health clinics.

Package Description

• £32, 073 - £39,043 (Band 5 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

What you’ll be doing

As a key member of our team, you’ll play an important role in improving public health outcomes by:

• Delivering high-quality contraception and sexual health services in both clinic and community settings
• Supporting individuals to make informed choices about their sexual health
• Providing and administering contraception and STI treatment under Patient Group Directions
• Undertaking STI testing, pregnancy testing, and cervical screening
• Offering non-judgemental care and tailored advice to young people and vulnerable adults
• Working with partners to deliver health promotion and education initiatives
• Contributing to the reduction of unintended pregnancies and STIs in the local population

About You

We’re looking for someone who is:

• A Registered Nurse (RGN/RM or equivalent)
• Passionate about delivering inclusive, sensitive, and person-centred care
• Confident working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Skilled at building relationships with partner organisations
• Organised, proactive, and committed to maintaining high clinical standards

Experience in sexual health is welcome but not essential – we’ll support you with training and development.

What we offer

• A varied role combining clinical and community outreach work
• Training and development opportunities in sexual and reproductive health
• Flexible working patterns to support work-life balance
• The chance to work for an organisation drivenby values that truly matter:
• Care – we listen, understand and support
• Think – we innovate, learn and improve
• Do – we take accountability and make things happen

Additional details

• Base: Closest site to your home (Rochdale, Oldham, or Bury), with travel across all areas
• Hours: Monday–Friday with occasional evenings and Saturdays
• Requirement: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Why join us?

You’ll be part of a service that makes a meaningful impact every day , supporting people to take control of their health and wellbeing while helping to shape healthier communities.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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