About the role
Salary: £49387.00 to £56515.00
The post holder
Provides up to date, accurate information, health education, advice and support to service users and their relatives/carers such as explaining diagnosis of a STI/HIV or contraceptive choices to a patient or partner, using skilled interpersonal interactions. Communicates varied, highly sensitive and complicated information (verbally and in writing) in a way that is understood and gets important facts across and where there may be barriers to understanding such as challenging behaviour, language, cultural, mental health or neurodiversity vulnerabilities.
Leads and works within nurse provided clinical sessions, often working as a lone worker in mainly non-clinical settings, providing highly specialised advice concerning the care of health inclusion groups, many of whom find accessing mainstream services for their treatment and care difficult. Issues or prescribes medicines/treatments in accordance with local care pathways and in accordance with the NMC Administration of Medicines Guidelines