• Job Description

  Req#: C9365-25-0370?language=en&page=414&sort=publicationDateDesc

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  09 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £46,148 to £52,809 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  C9365-25-0370

  Job locations

  Charles Hastings Way

  Worcester

  Worcestershire

  WR5 1DD

  
  

  3 Commercial Road

  Hereford

  HR1 2AZ

  
  

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

  Address

  Charles Hastings Way

  Worcester

  Worcestershire

  WR5 1DD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

  Address

  Charles Hastings Way

  Worcester

  Worcestershire

  WR5 1DD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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