Lead Nurse HIV Service

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Lead Nurse to oversee the HIV service’s operations and governance, partnering with the Consultant Clinical Lead and Sexual Health Service Manager. The post involves managing a multidisciplinary team and maintaining high-quality care for adults living with HIV across Hope House and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

The role requires extensive leadership experience, clinical expertise with HIV, and strong relationship-building skills to

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to quickly build relationships across teams and partners.
• Extensive management and leadership experience leading a multidisciplinary team in healthcare.
• Experience of working with patients living with HIV and contributing to governance and service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational development, governance and managerial oversight of the HIV service.
• Deliver direct line management support to team members.
• Manage nurse-led and multidisciplinary outpatient clinics for a complex HIV caseload and coordinate referrals with partner agencies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Leadership experience

Team building

Job description

Are you looking for a career making a positive difference to people living with HIV and believe you have the management and leadership skills to lead the multidisciplinary team?

If the answer is yes, this role may be what you are looking for.

The HIV service accepts referrals for patients aged 19 years and above, from anywhere in the County. The multidisciplinary team includes Medical, Pharmacy, Nursing and Healthcare Assistant, Counselling and admin colleagues, working closely and collaboratively with patients and other partner agencies to provide confidential specialist evidence-based care to patients living with HIV. The approach used is holistic, non-judgemental, and personalised, acknowledging the diversity of the patient cohort and offering additional psychological support where required. Clinics are daily based in Hope House, on the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital Site.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Lead Nurse to be responsible for the operational oversight and governance assurance of the HIV service, joining other Lead nurses who represent the Pregnancy Advisory Service, Integrated Sexual Health, and the Sexual Assault Referral Centre, co-located in Hope House. Applicants should have experience of working with patients living with HIV and extensive management and leadership experience leading a multidisciplinary team. The role is offered on a permanent, part-time basis, working 30 hours per week flexibly based on service need across Monday to Friday.

The postholder will work in collaboration with the Consultant Clinical Lead’s, and the Sexual Health Service Manager in the operational and clinical management of the HIV related care service, providing support to registered and non- registered staff.

To be responsible for the operational development, improvement and management of the HIV service, participating in the Sexual Health Operational Governance.

You will need strong interpersonal and organisational skills with the ability to quickly build relationships with the team and business partners across the organisation, providing prompt responses to issues raised within the service.

You will provide direct line management support to team members.

Manage and deliver nurse led and multidisciplinary outpatient clinics for a complex caseload of people living with HIV, providing specialist advice and education to patients, carers and staff, liaising with partner agencies for onward referrals to meet patient needs.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

About

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lindsay Kear Job title: Sexual Health Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0300 421 6547