Clinical Nurse Specialist (Sexual Health/Hiv)

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust provides an outpatient Level 2 and 3 Sexual Health/ Genito-Urinary Medicine service based at the Trafalgar clinic, within the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich,London.
The clinic provides Sexual Health and HIV services to the local and wider community both as patient led self-referral and referrals from our community colleagues within Sexual and Reproductive Health services (SRH) and local GP practices.
The Trafalgar clinic is looking to recruit an experienced Nurse to cover a 12-month maternity leave period. The ideal candidate would complement our existing team of skilled and enthusiastic nurses.
This post provides an opportunity to work within a dedicated multidisciplinary team providing seamless care to our client group.
We welcome applications from persons who have experience within Sexual Health/HIV and have specialist knowledge of and are fully competent in current HIV & Sexual Health clinical practice. Banding at AFC 6 or 7 dependent on experience.
We are a research active department and we are committed to undergraduate and post graduate education.
Applicants should have evidence of continuous professional development.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
To co-ordinate the specialty care within the Trust/CCG, including outreach clinics within the region.
To become an essential member, and point of contact and resource for the multi-disciplinary team and patients and carers.
Carries out diagnostic/therapeutic interventions as an independent practitioner, interprets, writes reports and commences further possible treatment on the basis of the findings.
Carries out complex therapeutic/investigational procedures under indirect supervision of the Consultant. Ensuring that they are carried out using safe practice and under agreed guidelines/protocols to ensure that the highest possible standard is obtained based on competent clinical practice.
To demonstrate the ability to develop new skills, to provide an expert high quality, nurse-led service/midwifery-led service.
To provide ongoing follow-up care and support (home visits / telephone support / nurse/midwife led clinics / outpatient clinics and outreach clinics)
To develop the service in a structured interdisciplinary way, initiating on-going change and progression in the expanding role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist/Specialist Midwife.
To develop interdisciplinary clinical management protocols and work within them.
Autonomously or in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, manage the care of patients carrying out relevant interventions, within agreed clinical protocols and in line with current practice/trends.