Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist - HIV Medicine

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide high quality, integrated nursing care to patients within the HIV outpatients and day care service. You will assist in the assessment and monitoring of the patient's disease pathway. Initiating, optimising treatments and will provide information, education, training, and support to this group of patients and their carer's.

Providing a holistic service via face-to-face consultations, telemedicine clinics, facilitating drug monitoring programmes and work collaboratively to provide screening programmes for defined patient groups.

This specialist practise role will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management, and research.

The post holder will work as part of a nursing team to provide care within the HIV outpatients and day care service and will work closely with other staff across all disciplines to facilitate continuity of care.

The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care in whichever part of the department they are working on both a daily and ongoing basis.

The post-holder is responsible for providing competent treatment, care and advice to promote health and well-being. Their role will include triage, provision of day care and treatments, providing nursing support to health care support workers co-ordinating out-patient clinics and facilitating HIV testing, screening programme's and diagnosis.

The post-holder is designated to take charge of the department on a shift-management basis acting as floor manager, supervising junior staff and liaising with the nurse practitioner and the lead nurse as necessary.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated team of staff care for over 1.6 million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17 million tests.

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Please review the attached Job description and personally specification for further detail of this role.

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

• Registered Nurse
• Relevant post reg qualification in HIV
• Cervical cytology certificate or working towards
• BSc or working towards
• Contraception/women's health qualification

• Evidence of relevant HIV and sexual health experience
• Evidence of Women's health experience
• Evidence of teaching/mentoring of patients/ healthcare professionals
• Evidence of participation of audit and promotion of evidence-based practice.
• Evidence of Oncology/palliative care experience

• Knowledge of complex HIV issues
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
• Evidence of IT skills, including use of databases, word, excel
• Evidence of undertaking clinical audits and analysis
• Experienced mentor

• Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible and professional approach
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and solve problems
• Enthusiastic and assertive
• Adaptable to change
• Diplomatic and calm
• Flexibility in shift and working patterns to meet the needs of the service.

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.

£46,419 to £55,046 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS