Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Band clinical support worker to work within the Oxfordshire Sexual Health Service on a month secondment. The service has expanded to include comprehensive STI management and contraception to people attending our outpatient services in various locations across the county.

Our main base is at The Churchill Hospital in Oxford with clinics in East Oxford, Abingdon, Banbury, Bicester, Didcot, Kidlington, Witney and Wantage.

You will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi agency professional team, good communication is essential as our clients ages vary and they are from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds, many with English not being their first language

Experience is desirable although not essential, an interest in Sexual Health is crucial and training will be given to the successful applicant to learn new skills for future development.

Duties are varied and although the majority of the time will be spent at the Churchill Hospital you may be rostered to one of our satellite clinics, so the successful candidate needs to be flexible with hours of work which may involve some evenings, Saturday mornings and also have the ability to commute between clinics.

Our clinics are busy and you will see a variety of different patients. 

If secondment not need in sexual health for full months you may be transferred to another specialist medicine department

Main duties of the job

The list of duties as follows is not exhaustive but does give an overall view of what the job consists of.

Assist with stocking up and the preparation of clinical rooms and closing down rooms at the end of the day.

Preparing supplies for satellite clinics.

Undertake urine testing, pregnancy testing, collecting samples and documenting/storing samples safely.

Chaperoning Ladies undergoing procedures such as coil fittings, (which are also done in Banbury and Didcot), Chaperoning examinations performed by a Male member of staff, 

Offer and perform Asymptomatic screens to patient who are eligible 

Microscopy training will be given so slides can be examined in our lab so a diagnosis can be made and treatment given Cleaning and tidying clinical rooms and checking /documenting room temperature daily, with a deep clean of the department done each Wednesday morning.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .