Job overview

To work alongside the senior nurses in the provision of an integrated specialist sexual health and HIV nursing service giving support, advice, education and information to clients attending the NISHH service at Northampton, Kettering and other spoke and outreach settings.

This post is specifically for the management of HIV patients and the proportion of work dedicated to GU/SRH will depend on the post holders skills and interest in line with service need.  The post holder will expected to work across both hub sites throughout the week. Our main hub sites are located at Northampton General Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital, Kettering. They will be expected to work closely with the Senior Nurses and senior leadership team within the service. The post-holder will be part of a multidisciplinary countywide consultant led HIV Team.   This role involves direct contact with patients on a daily basis. This will involve dealing with enquiries, taking and managing blood results and medication concerns. It will incorporate a role for health advising, education, and partner notification.  Basic STI testing for HIV patients will be part of this role and will be supported by your GU colleagues. The post holder will be expected to follow local and nationally adopted protocols, under the supervision and guidance of the senior doctors in the team. The post holder will be flexible and able to support new ways of working and the new model of service delivery within the HIV Unit (Summers Unit).

Main duties of the job

·      To work closely with the HIV MDT including the specialist HIV pharmacy team and psychology services in order to manage the cohort of patients living with HIV who attend the Summers unit. This includes providing adherence support, education to patients and their partners/families, and the provision of holistic care.  We expect the successful candidate to demonstrate expertise in managing patients on Antiretroviral therapy (in line with local and national guidelines) with a holistic patient centered approach.

·         To participate in the presentation of relevant information for the HIV MDT meetings (weekly)

• Undertake venepuncture appoinments for people living with HIV
• Working with other health professionals including Occupational Health , Antenatal teams and local hospitals to provide cohesive care. 
• To be able to deliver diffcult results including a diagnosis of HIV to patients, face to face and telemedicine.
• Post holder will be expected to work across county throughout the week including attending St Mary's Hospital in Kettering and Northampton General Hospital.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.