Registered Nurse - HIV Service

We are looking for an enthusiastic, Registered nurse to join our service. The Maria clinic (HIV 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, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT).

The Maria clinic is co-located in the same building with Essex Sexual Health Service, providing seamless service, which includes Sexual Health, Contraception. The HIV service has a close clinical network with North East London HIV Network for clinical advice and works closely with Essex HIV Support, providing community support and advocacy for our 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 Anti-Retroviral treatment ( HAART)
• Develops competence in PGD’s relevant to clinical practice.
• Be responsible for HIV AIDS Reporting System (HARS) and to ensure timely completion and submission of HARS report.

Undertake clinical work that includes Face to Face consultations, Telephone consultations

Undertake clinical work that includes venepuncture and administration of vaccination.

To guide and support patients with psycho-social needs.

To 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 we 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 offer 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 f

or 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 further details / informal visits contact: Name: Noellette Lesperance Job title: HIV Clinical Nurse Specialist Email address: Noellette.Lesperance@esneft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01206 745368