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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Job Reference:
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6
Posted:
05.07.2025
Expiry Date:
19.08.2025
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Job Description:
Job overview
In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the HIV service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles.
Main duties of the job
The focus of this Clinical Nurse specialist is the management and support of our most vulnerable patients. The role is crucial to keeping individual patients well and out of hospital and also the prevention of onwards transmission of HIV. Working closely with one of the HIV consultants, the successful applicant will be responsible for: the HIV failsafe; management of the VIP (Vulnerable/Vireamic Patients in Need) pathway; the DNA pathway; the Lost-to-Follow-up pathway. They will also be expected to contribute to the wider nursing activity within the department.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualifications/ Education - Essential
* BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
* Your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent.
* To have or working towards a non-medical prescribing course
* Qualifications/ Education - Desirable
* To have or working towards a masters degree
* To have or working towards a non medical physical assessment course
Professional/ Statutory Registration
* RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
* Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within HIV, delivering effective patient focused care.
* Proven evidence of management / leadership skills and autonomous practice
* Previous experience of student supervision and clinical education at undergraduate level
* Experience of delivering patient advocacy
* Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
* Experience ofmanaging change
* Skills/ Knowledge/ Ability
* Advanced clinical and leadershipskills in HIV
* Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes
* Evidence of teaching skills in particular teaching patients in how to manage their conditions and raise their awareness of their condition.
* Ability to clinically lead & influence staff
* Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
* Sound knowledge of current issues in the profession and practice of nursing
* Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care
* Time management and organisation skills
* Ability to conduct & evaluate own projects successfully
* Knowledge of current clinical & nursing research
* Ability to carry out audit and research
* IT Skills
* A knowledge of and commitment to the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.
Person specification
Experience
* Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within HIV, delivering effective patient focused care.
Registration
* RN1 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
Clinical
* Advanced clinial and leadership skills in HIV
Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
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