Job summary
The Birmingham Heartlands HIV Service is well known for the delivery of a high standard of care of people living with HIV. This role presents an opportunity to become part of an exciting and passionate team as a HIV Health Advisor providing expert advice, education, and psychosocial support to patients, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes.
Your role will be pivotal in promoting prevention, early diagnosis, treatment adherence, and holistic care, ensuring that patients receive compassionate, informed support tailored to their individual needs.. We are part of the national blood born virus (BBV) opt out testing team helping us diagnose more people with with blood born viruses with our main focus on HIV. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about supporting our patients through significant life changing diagnosis and helping identify anyone else who may be at risk and need testing including either partners or children of our patients. Our service runs Monday to Friday with no weekend working. You will be working closely with our team of health advisers, consultants, clinical nurse specialists and community teams to support our growing cohort of patients ensuring they stay engaged with our service and receive the highest standards of care that we can provide. You will be supported with training and development with in our service to ensure you receive everything you need to be part of our health advising team.
Main duties of the job
1) You will be a clinically based practitioner working as part of a specialist HIV health adviser team, providing a seamless nurse led public health service within the HIV service at Heartlands hospital.
2) You will be providing specialist intervention, advice and support to both newly diagnosed and long term clients within our service. You will provide planned and timely practical and psychological support around partner notification and any associated testing of contacts, practical and psychological support related to initial or onward risk of transmission of HIV and
support related to disclosure and sharing of diagnosis with others.
3) In addition you will ensure the identification, tracing and testing of children born to mothers with HIV and ensuring patients stay engaged with our service.
4) You will help promote sexual health through education along side our sexual health nurse.
5) you will maintain accurate records and uphold clinical governance.
6) Commit to ongoing professional development and evidence based practice.
7) working closely with other members of the MDT to ensure all care needs of our patients are met.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- *Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- *Portfolio of certified / accredited post registration professional development.
Desirable
- *Accredited teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
- *Post registration experience with evidence of knowledge and development for the associated area of specialist practice.
- *In depth knowledge of specialist procedures required for role, with willingness to undertake further training/ education to achieve agreed level of competence.
- *Knowledge of standards and policies associated with role.
- *Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
- *Demonstrable understanding of the national / NHSE diagnostic/ therapeutic expectations / strategy around endoscopy services and can relate this to the role.
- * Demonstrable understanding of clinical governance / patient safety process's -- can relate this to the role in relation to their personal/professional accountability.
Desirable
- *To be able to interpret clinical test results and advise appropriately.
- *Health advisor experience.
- *Sexual health/ HIV experience.
- *Experience in public health.
- *Previous experience of one to one work with clients using brief interventions e.g. motivational interviewing.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Excellent written, verbal communication skills
- *Ability to follow complex instructions consistently in relation to the delivery of endoscopy practice.
- *Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach to colleagues/ patients
- *Effective people skills including high degree of self-awareness / self-regulation.
- *Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse information/ data and develop skills in reporting of video capsule images.
- *Ability to recognise limits of own competence and seek advice/ support escalating concerns as required.
- *Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- *Ability to plan, prioritise workload in response to service need
- *Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload and developing skills, knowledge, and competence.
- *Ability to work towards autonomous enhanced practice through exposure, supervised practice to a preset level of clinical competence.
- *Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- *Ability to contribute to service development
Desirable
- *Ability to work autonomously, manage / prioritise own workload
- *Can evidence participation in clinical audit / research and relate this to practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
- *Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- *Portfolio of certified / accredited post registration professional development.
Desirable
- *Accredited teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
- *Post registration experience with evidence of knowledge and development for the associated area of specialist practice.
- *In depth knowledge of specialist procedures required for role, with willingness to undertake further training/ education to achieve agreed level of competence.
- *Knowledge of standards and policies associated with role.
- *Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
- *Demonstrable understanding of the national / NHSE diagnostic/ therapeutic expectations / strategy around endoscopy services and can relate this to the role.
- * Demonstrable understanding of clinical governance / patient safety process's -- can relate this to the role in relation to their personal/professional accountability.
Desirable
- *To be able to interpret clinical test results and advise appropriately.
- *Health advisor experience.
- *Sexual health/ HIV experience.
- *Experience in public health.
- *Previous experience of one to one work with clients using brief interventions e.g. motivational interviewing.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Excellent written, verbal communication skills
- *Ability to follow complex instructions consistently in relation to the delivery of endoscopy practice.
- *Consistently professional, collaborative, and compassionate in their approach to colleagues/ patients
- *Effective people skills including high degree of self-awareness / self-regulation.
- *Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse information/ data and develop skills in reporting of video capsule images.
- *Ability to recognise limits of own competence and seek advice/ support escalating concerns as required.
- *Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- *Ability to plan, prioritise workload in response to service need
- *Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload and developing skills, knowledge, and competence.
- *Ability to work towards autonomous enhanced practice through exposure, supervised practice to a preset level of clinical competence.
- *Ability to apply, evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events, and activities.
- *Ability to contribute to service development
Desirable
- *Ability to work autonomously, manage / prioritise own workload
- *Can evidence participation in clinical audit / research and relate this to practice
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
