Registered Nurse - HIV Service

Overview

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) seeks a Registered Nurse to join the Maria Clinic (HIV clinic). The closing date is 08 February 2026.

The Maria Clinic provides care for people living with HIV. The clinic has 1.0 GUM/HIV consultant and 1.0 HIV Clinical Nurse Specialist. HIV service is under the Women and Children Division, ESNEFT. The Maria Clinic is co-located with Essex Sexual Health Service, providing seamless service including Sexual Health and Contraception. The HIV service has a close clinical network with the North East London HIV Network for clinical advice and works with Essex HIV Support, providing community support and advocacy for patients.

We currently provide care and support for a cohort of about 450 clients.

• Demonstrate clinical knowledge of HIV and clinical immunology.
• Demonstrate Level 1 and 2 competence in STI screening.
• Competent in understanding the pharmacology of Highly Active Antiretroviral treatment (HAART).
• Develop competence in PGDs relevant to clinical practice.
• Be responsible for HIV AIDS Reporting System (HARS) and ensure timely completion and submission of HARS reports.
• Undertake clinical work that includes face-to-face consultations and telephone consultations.
• Undertake clinical work that includes venepuncture and administration of vaccination.
• Guide and support patients with psycho-social needs.
• Guide and support patients with newly diagnosed HIV as well as stable patients.
• Participate in audit and other quality improvement initiatives.
• Support prescribing of patients if within current scope.

We are ESNEFT and provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients  own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what s widely regarded as the world s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

• Registered Nurse with recent Acute Care experience
• Post registration experience in HIV in/out patient care
• Completion of Specialist course in HIV care, i.e. Nurses HIV National Association (NHIVNA) competencies
• Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) or desire to work towards prescribing

• Knowledge of current British HIV Association (BHIVA) and British Association for Sexual Health and HIV guidelines
• Knowledge of common Sexually Transmitted Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
• Experience or commitment to work towards gaining competency in administering injectable antiretroviral drugs
• Vaccines:
  Competent in administration of

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust