Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist - HIV

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse to join our HIV team as a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist. Working alongside the team and Band 7 lead, you will provide high quality, evidence-based care to patients with HIV on their treatment journey.

You will be a registered nurse with NMC registration, ideally with experience in HIV or a strong willingness to undertake the relevant competences and training. You will have excellent communication skills as well as organisational skills and have a passion to deliver patient centred care, supporting individuals through complex treatment pathways.

Main duties of the job

In this position you will have a key role working within and supporting a multi-professional team, providing specialist care and support to patients and carers throughout their HIV pathway and beyond. You will be responsible for working collaboratively with a range of healthcare professionals and agencies, providing specialist advice and support, to ensure the delivery of high quality and efficient services to meet the priorities of the organisation and the national HIV agenda.

This role requires you to maintain professional standards, act as a role model and work collaboratively and effectively with members of the Multidisciplinary Team. You will be expected to provide education & training to colleagues pertinent to the role and ensure they maintain their own professional development.

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

• *Health Assessment post graduate qualification / willingness to work towards.
• *Post registration experience in medical/urgent care nursing or HIV / sexual health services.
• *Non medical prescriber/willingness to work towards.

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.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• *Excellent written, verbal communication skills

*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

*Acts to support and enable teamwork.

*Cheerful outlook towards supporting organisational / service changes, learning and continuous quality improvement

About the employer

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.