Job Summary
Package Description: Make a real difference where it matters most. Are you a passionate Sexual Health Nurse ready to take your impact beyond the clinic walls? At HCRG Care Group, we're redefining community sexual health - reaching people who need us most and tackling health inequalities head-on. This is more than a nursing role. It's your opportunity to shape services, influence outcomes, and deliver care in a way that truly changes lives. You will receive a Band 6 AfC salary with NHS pension and Agenda for Change terms and conditions. As an Outreach Nurse Specialist, you'll deliver high-quality sexual health and contraception services directly into communities, focusing on people who may not otherwise access care.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Sexual Health Outreach Nurse, you'll deliver high-quality sexual health and contraception services directly into communities, focusing on people who may not otherwise access care. As an Outreach Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert, dual-trained sexual health and contraception care. You'll lead and deliver outreach to marginalised and underserved groups, identify unmet needs, and design targeted interventions. Your role also involves working closely with partners such as mental health services and homelessness teams. You will ensure smooth pathways between outreach and clinical services for complex cases. You'll play a key role in service development, data-driven planning, supporting colleagues, and promoting continuous improvement. The role requires full-time commitment with some evening and weekend work.
About us
HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, established in 2006. It works with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services, focusing on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. HCRG Care Group delivers and transforms a range of services, including adult and children community health services, primary care services such as urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. The organisation supports communities across England, directly helping more than half a million people each year. Guided by values of caring, thinking, and doing, HCRG Care Group is committed to equal opportunities.
Details
Date posted: 08 July 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 1524809071
Job locations: Loughborough, LE11 1DQ, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
You will:

• Provide expert, dual-trained sexual health and contraception care
• Lead and deliver outreach to marginalised and underserved groups
• Identify unmet needs and design targeted interventions
• Work closely with partners including mental health services, homelessness teams, and voluntary organisations
• Ensure smooth pathways between outreach and clinic services for complex cases

You'll also play a key role in:

• Service development and transformation
• Data-driven planning and evaluation of outreach activity
• Supporting and mentoring colleagues and students
• Promoting innovation and continuous improvement

This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week, worked across five days, with evening and occasional weekend work required. A full driving licence is essential to enable travel between clinic sites and community locations.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Sexual Health Outreach Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Leicestershire & Rutland Sexual Health Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £39,959-£48,117 (Band 6 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

Ideal Candidate
You're someone who thrives outside the traditional clinic setting and is passionate about reducing health inequalities.
Essential:

• Registered General Nurse
• FSRH Diploma
• Experience in sexual health and contraception
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills

Desirable:
While not essential, it would be desirable for the candidate to hold Qualification Independent Nurse Prescriber certification and have experience in Outreach Sexual Health, particularly working with hard-to-reach communities. A willingness to undertake training for IUD/IUS insertion is also preferred, along with possession of a teaching and mentoring qualification or a commitment to complete relevant training.
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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).