Job summary
- Main area
- HIV
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed-term contract until the end of March 2026.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (FIXED TERM)
- Job ref
- 150-KB2182-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CHIVSS Sussex Community NHS Trust
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community HIV Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Are you a passionate and experienced nurse with a special interest in HIV care? We are looking for a Band 6 Community HIV Specialist Nurse to join our dynamic and supportive team in West Sussex, based in either Brighton or Crawley, and working across both West Sussex and Brighton and Hove areas.
This is a rewarding opportunity to deliver high-quality, person-centred care to people living with HIV in the community. You’ll work both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting patients with complex needs through holistic assessment, care planning, and self-management. You’ll also play a key role in developing the service, sharing best practice, and promoting education and awareness across the wider health and care system.
If you’re committed to reducing stigma, improving outcomes, and making a real difference in people’s lives, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Manage a caseload of patients living with HIV, delivering specialist nursing care in the community.
- Provide holistic assessments, care planning, and discharge coordination in collaboration with primary care and acute services.
- Offer expert advice and support to patients, carers, and professionals across statutory and voluntary sectors.
- Lead on education, quality improvement, and service development initiatives.
- Participate in audits, research, and the delivery of training to students and colleagues.
- Travel across a wide geographical area in West Sussex—access to a car is 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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role, responsibilities, and essential criteria.
Person specification
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to travel across a wide geographical area
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
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
- Sibusisiwe Mutambara
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01293301021
- Additional information
Mobile number 07796846531
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