Job summary
BLOOD BORNE VIRUS NURSES
COUNTYWIDE HIV CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST - BAND
7
FULL TIME 37.5 hrs per week
PERMANENT POST
An exciting
opportunity has arisen for a Full-time band 7 clinical nurse specialist in HIV. We are seeking an enthusiastic nurse who is
innovative, enthusiastic and passionate about HIV
You will be joining well established ID service with 2 ID consultants, a hepatologist, ID registrar, ID pharmacist, HIV CNS's, Hepatitis CNS and Healthcare Assistants.
We have cross county
nurse led and multidisciplinary clinics and part of your role will be to do a
one day a week clinic at Hereford hospital on a Friday.
We support educational work at the University
of Worcester, where there is a flourishing nursing programme and foster close
links with the community drug services and GPs. There is also a local fibroscan
service.
This post comes at a
particularly exciting time in the field of HIV with the new introduction of
injectable treatments. We are closely
linked via a regional network to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
If you feel you have
the necessary skills and wish to be part of a friendly professional team we
would be glad to receive your application, informal visits are welcomed.
For further information or to arrange an
informal visit please contact:
Matron Georgina Darby on direct dial 01905
733883, bleep 662 via switchboard on 01905 763333 or Clinical Lead Dr MTM Roberts, Consultant in
Infectious Diseases on 01562 513072
Main duties of the job
- Initiate, implement and manage nurse led clinics within the Acute Trust setting.
- Deliver highly specialised care to patients receiving treatment for HIV.
- Working in partnership with Clinical Governance, develop protocols and guidelines.
- Maintain HIV database.
- Initiate audit/research.
- Formulate education programmes for teaching purposes.
- Monthly participation in MDT based in Worcester.
- Close collaboration with Worcester-based HIV CNSs
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Initiate, implement and manage nurse led clinics within the Acute Trust setting.
- Deliver highly specialised care to patients receiving treatment for HIV.
- Working in partnership with Clinical Governance, develop protocols and guidelines.
- Maintain HIV database.
- Initiate audit/research.
- Formulate education programmes for teaching purposes.
- Monthly participation in MDT based in Worcester.
- Close collaboration with Worcester-based HIV CNSs
Key Duties:Clinical/Professional
- Effectively manage a highly complex clinical caseload, prioritizing needs and ensuring that a quality service is provided. Planning and implementing care for patients undergoing assessment and treatment of HIV.
- Act as an independent and supplementary prescriber within own area of expertise.
- Work as a member of the multi-professional team at appropriate consultant clinics, providing specialist advice and support.
- To practice autonomously within nurse-led clinics delivering highly specialised care across acute and community setting. This will include:
- Providing information regarding treatment and side effects.
- Teaching patients injection techniques.
- Monitoring treatment and side effect management
- Maintaining a support network for the patients.
- Providing a phlebotomy service.
- Analysing highly complex blood results to assess complications of HIV and how treatment is affecting patients and liaising with medical colleagues, when appropriate.
- Provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information and discussing this information with the patient, maintaining the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
- Providing specialist advice and support to clients and staff.
- Act as the patient advocate, assessing suitability for treatment and working with the patient to achieve this goal.
- When appropriate, liaise with other health care professionals, within the acute and community setting, to ensure that the patient receives a seamless service.
- Provide comprehensive and accurate record keeping.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Initiate, implement and manage nurse led clinics within the Acute Trust setting.
- Deliver highly specialised care to patients receiving treatment for HIV.
- Working in partnership with Clinical Governance, develop protocols and guidelines.
- Maintain HIV database.
- Initiate audit/research.
- Formulate education programmes for teaching purposes.
- Monthly participation in MDT based in Worcester.
- Close collaboration with Worcester-based HIV CNSs
Key Duties:Clinical/Professional
- Effectively manage a highly complex clinical caseload, prioritizing needs and ensuring that a quality service is provided. Planning and implementing care for patients undergoing assessment and treatment of HIV.
- Act as an independent and supplementary prescriber within own area of expertise.
- Work as a member of the multi-professional team at appropriate consultant clinics, providing specialist advice and support.
- To practice autonomously within nurse-led clinics delivering highly specialised care across acute and community setting. This will include:
- Providing information regarding treatment and side effects.
- Teaching patients injection techniques.
- Monitoring treatment and side effect management
- Maintaining a support network for the patients.
- Providing a phlebotomy service.
- Analysing highly complex blood results to assess complications of HIV and how treatment is affecting patients and liaising with medical colleagues, when appropriate.
- Provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information and discussing this information with the patient, maintaining the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
- Providing specialist advice and support to clients and staff.
- Act as the patient advocate, assessing suitability for treatment and working with the patient to achieve this goal.
- When appropriate, liaise with other health care professionals, within the acute and community setting, to ensure that the patient receives a seamless service.
- Provide comprehensive and accurate record keeping.
Person Specification
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility with working hours.
- Able to travel countywide and cross-sites.
Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered Nurse.
- Graduate in health-related degree.
- Venepuncture and cannulation course.
- Working towards Masters degree.
- Independent and Supplementary Nurse Prescribing Course or willingness to complete.
- Counselling course.
Desirable
- ENB 934.
- Completed Health assessment module.
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience at band 6 or 7.
- Experience working autonomously.
- Relevant sexual health experience.
- Must demonstrate:-
- Knowledge of National HIV guidelines.
- Knowledge of drug therapies used in HIV.
- Health education/promotion skills.
- Knowledge base re: HIV.
- Experience in the care of patients with HIV.
- Effective Communication Skills.
- IT Literate
Desirable
- Health & safety course.
- Demonstrate involvement in clinical audit.
- Involvement in health education/health promotion.
Person Specification
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility with working hours.
- Able to travel countywide and cross-sites.
Qualifications
Essential
- First level Registered Nurse.
- Graduate in health-related degree.
- Venepuncture and cannulation course.
- Working towards Masters degree.
- Independent and Supplementary Nurse Prescribing Course or willingness to complete.
- Counselling course.
Desirable
- ENB 934.
- Completed Health assessment module.
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience at band 6 or 7.
- Experience working autonomously.
- Relevant sexual health experience.
- Must demonstrate:-
- Knowledge of National HIV guidelines.
- Knowledge of drug therapies used in HIV.
- Health education/promotion skills.
- Knowledge base re: HIV.
- Experience in the care of patients with HIV.
- Effective Communication Skills.
- IT Literate
Desirable
- Health & safety course.
- Demonstrate involvement in clinical audit.
- Involvement in health education/health promotion.
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
