Sexual Health Assistant Practitioner - PrEP Access Facilitator

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization is looking for a Sexual Health Assistant Practitioner to enhance PrEP delivery across multiple NHS Trusts. This role involves identifying health needs, delivering care interventions, and supporting outreach efforts to promote HIV prevention. The position offers flexible hours and an opportunity to be part of a transformative healthcare initiative.

Qualifications

• Experience as a health care professional.
• Ability to analyze patient progress.
• Capable of undertaking audits.

Responsibilities

• Conduct asymptomatic screening and provide PrEP information.
• Manage treatment lists and partner notifications.
• Participate in outreach work with vulnerable groups.

Skills

Patient Care

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Foundation degree in assisting professional practice

Tools

Basic Computer Skills

Job description

Main area Sexual Health Outreach Grade Band 4 Contract Fixed term: 16 months (16 Months Pilot Project) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some evening and occasional weekend work) Job ref 287-RMED-221-25

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Axess Sexual Health, The Beat Town Liverpool Salary £26,530 - £29,114 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59

Sexual Health Assistant Practitioner - PrEP Access Facilitator

Band 4

Job overview

Assistant Practitioner– National PrEP Access & Delivery Initiative

Location: Hybrid (Remote with travel across multiple NHS Trusts) Contract: Fixed-term, 16 months Salary: Agenda for Change Band 4

Are you an experienced health care professional with a passion for driving change in healthcare? Do you want to play a key role in a groundbreaking initiative that could transform the delivery and accessibility of PrEP on a national scale? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Elton John AIDS Foundation has awarded funding for an ambitious 18-month project aimed at enhancing the delivery and uptake of PrEP across multiple NHS Trusts in Liverpool, West Sussex, and Brighton. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team that promotes a project that has the potential to shape national policy and improve access to life-changing prevention services.

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Practitioner will function at a higher competency level than that of other Health Care Support workers. They will assist in the identification of health needs and participate in the delivery and evaluation of care interventions developed to meet those needs under the supervision of a Clinical Practitioner.

Specifically, the post holder will be instrumental in delivering a programme of interventions aimed at increasing knowledge and accessibility for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to women, individuals from overseas, and other eligible groups of people who would benefit from PrEP as a highly effective means of HIV prevention and Health Promotion.

This post will support the activity and productivity of outreach staff delivering targeted work with vulnerable groups at risk of sexual ill-health with the key aim of promoting the uptake of PrEP amongst women, overseas individuals living in the UK and the principal target groups that Sexual Health Outreach works with:

• Men who have sex with men

• Students and young people

Hours of work will be flexible to include evening and weekends across the axess regional footprint as required.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

Utilising Trust policies and protocols, under the proximal supervision of the clinical practitioner, the assistant practitioner will:

• Undertake asymptomatic screening and be able to order routine bloods/investigations and have a basic understanding of normal and altered values.

· Provide up to date information about PrEP to those eligible and to recruit new users of PrEP from previously underserved populations, namely, women, overseas individuals, and groups already identified as Outreach cohorts.

• Undertake a designated range of patient assessments such as reviewing a medical history and reporting any changes to the clinical team.

• Utilise clinical skills appropriately to enhance the delivery of patient care e.g. Venepuncture, immunisation and provision of medication under direction of ‘Patient Specific Directions’ (PSD’s).

• Manage and maintain own treatment lists for Chlamydia and a range of routine contraception’s, with use of PSD’s.

• Manage and administer cryotherapy treatment to relevant and appropriate patients.

• Undertake partner notification (PN) and/or support patients to use online ‘e-PN’.

• Assess those patients with special need such as those under 16 and discuss with clinical team where appropriate and according to Trust guidelines.

• Manage recall of patients such as Hepatitis A/B & HPV vaccinations, repeat Chlamydia testing and Depo Provera injection.

• Function as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team

· Organise and prioritise time effectively.

· Undertake clinical audits for example infection control audits

• Undertake pregnancy testing according to clinical protocols liaising with clinical team where appropriate according to clinical guidelines.
• Outreach work in the community as appropriate.

· Recognises the need for referral and undertake appropriate referrals to clinical practitioners and/or services within the NHS, independent & voluntary sectors.

· Undertake, monitor & record basic observations – temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.

· Promote and value the rights, responsibilities and diversity of people

· Coordinate a team of support workers in care delivery and where appropriate other students.

· Work effectively as part of a multi disciplinary team recognising the contribution of all team members in meeting patients’ needs.

· Actively participate in team development and make suggestions to the team on service improvements.

Educational Responsibilities.

· To develop and maintain own clinical skills and knowledge using a competency framework to ensure effective care delivery

· To ensure compliance with mandatory training and personal development plans

· Demonstrate procedures to and supervise unqualified staff. Contribute to the learning environment within the service and team mentoring at an optimum level.

· Supervise, assess and mentor Trainee Healthcare Support workers, Trainee Assistant Practitioners, assist in the supervision and learning of other students with the exception of their assessment.

· Promote and participate in the Health Education both personally and with all patients and relatives as appropriate.

Professional responsibilities.

· Exhibit professional behaviour and attitude at all times, and demonstrate excellent customer care skills.

· Recognise the level of competence to ensure safe practice.

· Be familiar with and abide by Trust policies and procedures to ensure to ensure optimum patient care and safety of patients and staff.

· Adhere to trust uniform policy.

· Take personal responsibility for keeping up to date with new developments and participate in research/ clinical audit. Attendance at annual update sessions is mandatory.

· Act as a role model by upholding and implementing good practice in the workplace, always ensuring the highest standards of evidenced based care.

· Take every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge.

· Identify objectives within a PDP that support the delivery of high standards of clinical care

Communication.

· Provide verbal reports and maintain written reports on the patients’ condition for professionally qualified workers. Maintain confidentiality at all times.

· Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to adapt communication style to the situation/person.

· Communicate effectively with patients, staff and relatives.

· Report all accidents and incidents involving self, patients, staff or visitors according to procedure.

· Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings.

* The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.

* The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Foundation degree in assisting professional practice/equivalent

Experience

• Ability to provide excellent patient care

Knowledge

• Ability to analyze patient progress in response to care given
• Understands the role of audit in assuring standards of care and can undertake audits in practice.

Skills

• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the Healthcare setting.
• Basic Computer Skills: I/E can use PAS systems, email and can access policies on the Trust intranet

Other

• A good team player supportive of colleagues and patients

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Name Chris Higgins Job title Senior Sexual Health Outreach Practitioner Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07824607362