Job summary
- Main area
- HIV
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Fixed Term Maternity Cover
- Hours
- Full time
- Other
- Job ref
- 150-MT2615-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- School Clinic
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community HIV Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly specialist, supportive Community HIV team delivering care that truly changes lives.
Based in Brighton, you will work across community settings in Brighton and Hove, providing expert nursing care to people living with HIV. The role offers autonomy, variety and the chance to develop specialist expertise, while being supported by an experienced and values‑driven team.
If you are passionate about inclusive care, enjoy building meaningful long‑term relationships with patients, and are looking for a Band 6 role where your skills, compassion and initiative will be valued, this could be the perfect next step for you.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Band 6 Community HIV Specialist Nurse to deliver high‑quality, person‑centred care to adults living with HIV across Brighton and Hove.
You will manage a specialist community caseload, undertaking holistic assessments, planning and evaluating care, and supporting patients to manage their condition and live well at home. The role involves working autonomously while collaborating closely with primary care, acute HIV services, voluntary organisations and the wider MDT to ensure seamless, coordinated care, particularly around hospital discharge.
You will provide expert advice on HIV, sexual health and treatment adherence, act as a clinical role model, and contribute to service improvement and audit. You will also support and line manage Community HIV Support Practitioners, ensuring safe delegation and high standards of care. Strong communication skills, clinical judgement, and a commitment to reducing stigma are essential.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
- Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
- Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
- Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
- Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
- Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values - Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence - guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of specialist HIV nursing care to adults in community settings, managing a defined caseload of patients with complex physical, psychological and social needs. This will include undertaking comprehensive assessments, developing, implementing and evaluating individualised care plans, and promoting self‑management and treatment adherence.
The post holder will work closely with acute HIV services, primary health care teams, hospices, continuing care services and statutory and voluntary organisations to coordinate care, facilitate hospital discharge, and ensure continuity of support. Joint visits, multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences and discharge planning meetings will be undertaken as required.
The role includes providing expert advice and education to patients, carers, community staff and partner agencies on HIV, sexual health, long‑term condition management and psychosocial issues, including stigma and discrimination. The post holder will act as a specialist resource and clinical role model, promoting evidence‑based practice across the service.
The post holder will provide line management, supervision and support to Community HIV Support Practitioners, ensuring safe delegation of care, staff development, appraisal and performance management in line with Trust policy.
They will lead and contribute to clinical governance activities, including audit, risk assessment, incident reporting and service improvement initiatives, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, NMC standards and CQC requirements. Accurate and timely documentation will be maintained, and activity recorded to support service monitoring and development.
The post holder will actively participate in education, training, audit and research activities and contribute to the ongoing development of the Community HIV Specialist Service.
Person specification
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to travel across a wide geographical area with access to a car for work purposes
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN first level nurse (Adults)
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate level degree or equivalent
- Mentoring Course or equivalent assessor
Experience
Essential criteria
- HIV clinical experience and case management experience.
- Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in supervising or line managing junior clinical staff
Desirable criteria
- Up-to-date knowledge and skills, particularly in Long term Condition management and the care of patients with HIV
- Experience in Research and clinical audit
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
- Able to analyse complex situations and problem solve as necessary.
- Evidence of the ability to identify and manage risk.
- Evidence of ability to work with a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of knowledge and experience of working between acute and Primary Care settings
- Evidence of working in partnership and collaboration with other professionals
- Evidence of embracing and implementing change to provide high quality health outcomes
- Evidence of the ability to champion patient issues
- Evidence of the ability to work in a changing, stressful situation.
- Ability to appropriately challenge a variety of professionals about an individual’s care.
- Ability to resolve or diffuse conflict
- Evidence of ability to identify training needs of self and team to provide relevant and appropriate experience to all learners
- Evidence of one to one mentoring skills
- Evidence of teaching patients and carers. Evidence of advanced communication skills, able to understand blocks to communication and ways of developing strategies to overcome these.
- Assertive and able to negotiate in complex situations
- IT competent and ability to use Microsoft suite
- Ability to work in flexible way and respond positively to change.
- Ability to work autonomously and make own decisions
Desirable criteria
- Independent or supplementary prescribing medication review and administration
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jennifer Menin
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 265962
- Additional information
Tel: 07484509060
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