Key responsibilities include assessing, planning, and delivering complex clinical care, managing medication safely, ensuring adherence to infection control and health policies, and coordinating nurse-led clinics. The role also encompasses leadership and management duties, such as overseeing staffing arrangements, supporting junior staff, participating in educational activities, and promoting evidence-based practice and research initiatives within the nursing team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, sound clinical expertise, and the ability to act as a role model within a specialist clinical setting.
We are looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as Band 6 sexual health & HIV nurses in John Hunter and Kobler outpatient clinics on a 12 month fixed term contract.
Working flexibly across both services the post holder will ensure that they provide a patient focused service at all times. You will be a current band 5 or band 6 with current experience in sexual health and/or HIV.
We are looking for someone who possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills along with the ability to work and lead effectively a multidisciplinary team in across an innovative HIV and sexual health service.
The successful candidate will be able to autonomously manage the care of own caseload of patients within sexual health working with PGDs. Additionally they will have an opportunity to develop their HIV knowledge and experience within our HIV patient nurse-led Klick service.
Please see the attached job description and person specification. Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate they meet the essential criteria in the person specification in their application and if shortlisted, at interview.
For an informal visit or for further information on the post please contact the Charge Nurse, Dwayne Hunt on
The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member, and team leader. They will have demonstrable clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team, and coordinate and deliver high quality care. They will be a role model for expert clinical care, and lead on specific projects / management functions as delegated by the Charge Nurse they will role model the identified Trust values at all times.
They will coordinate the clinical, managerial and educational requirements of the area, and being a role model for team members, whilst delivering and overseeing high standards of care. In specialist settings, they will have a significant level of specialist clinical knowledge and expertise in the clinical functions of care delivery. They will provide advice and guidance also, and generally be known as a senior staff nurse.
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Clinical
- Lead on assessing planning and implementing high quality care, and evaluating care options for patients in the clinical area, in line with the Trust values and objectives.
- Lead on complex clinical care for patients within their area.
- Ensure the safe custody, maintenance and administration of medication, in accordance with established Trust policy.
- Promote and maintain a safe therapeutic environment for patients, their families and staff, according to national and local Infection Control guidelines, Health & Safety legislation and Trust policies and objectives.
- Provide sound evidence based clinical advice as required to staff and patients.
- Maintain a good understanding and implementation of clinical escalation procedures as required.
- Understand the Trust clinical governance framework, and participate in the promoting and safeguarding of high standards of care, through effective risk management & governance, and adherence to the Trust values.
- Ensure that the team promote, ensure and adhere to the Trust safeguarding polices.
- Undertake effective multi professionally work with colleagues to deliver care.
- Coordinate and manage nurse led clinics where appropriate.
- Coordinate specialist functions, including making clinical decisions where appropriate.
- Monitor quality of standards of care, in line with CQC requirements and Trust and Divisional objectives.
- Deliver and supervise a high quality patient experience.
- Work with manager to collect and disseminate data on quality indicators etc, in line with national and Trust objectives.
- Maintain a safe working environment, including ensuring equipment is safe, and used in line with Trust policy and values.
- Promote and maintain patient safety at all times, including proactively implementing falls prevention.
- Lead role in the detection, management and prevention of safeguarding issues.
- Have an awareness of current professional and clinical developments within their area of practice and promote this to others .
Leadership and Management
- Manage the day to day staffing arrangements and rotas, to ensure safe levels of practice.
- Be a shift coordinator on a regular basis where appropriate.
- Ensure staff adhere to Trust protocols of care, eg Infection Control.
- Take continuing responsibility for the Department in absence of manager.
- Participate in senior nurse / unit on call rota / bleep holder (some areas, eg paediatrics) as appropriate.
- Lead and manage their own clinical team within general clinical areas, and of the total team in the absence of the manager, in line with Trust values.
- Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust.
- Contribute to the effective management of the area by ensuring correct levels of staff are in place to deliver and assist with the planning of off duty rotas.
- Assist in the delivery of induction / orientation of new staff.
- Act as a role model, ensuring staff work to Trust guidelines and values.
- Supervise, under the direction of their manager, the work of qualified and unqualified staff and learners.
Education and Research
- Participate in the education of all learners within their area.
- Actively support and assist in preceptorship and in pre registration student support, supervision and guidance including mentorship where appropriate.
- Identify and respond to learning needs for area.
- Develop and deliver or organise local training sessions, mindful of the Trust values.
- Facilitate others in the development of informal teaching skills.
- Participate in the annual training needs analysis for their area.
- Participate in any local or related research projects, clinical trials etc.
- Apply and encourage others to utilise evidence based practice and relevant research findings in practice.
- Identify areas of nursing / midwifery research within their area that will be of benefit, and encourage and educate other staff to recognise the importance of research.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
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