Clinical Nurse Specialist - BBV

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; United States; Remote; USD 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 BBV Nurse Specialist to deliver autonomous, evidence-based care for people affected by BBV across hospital and community settings.

You will undertake specialist clinical assessment, support treatment and monitoring, provide health promotion, and coordinate care across services to reduce health inequalities and promote patient-centered BBV care.

Qualifications

• Registered general nurse with current professional registration.
• ENB 998 or equivalent.
• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• CPD/Short courses evidence.

Responsibilities

• Leads clinical audit and quality improvement.
• Maintains robust governance structures.
• Provides expert advice on testing and management of BBV.
• Coordinates care across hospital and community services.
• Supports treatment initiation and monitoring for BBV patients.

Education

Registered general Nurse

ENB 998 or equivalent

Degree or equivalent (relevant discipline)

CPD/Short courses

UK professional registration (NMC)

Job description

The Band 7 Blood Borne Virus (BBV) Nurse Specialist will provide expert, autonomous and evidence-based specialist nursing care to people living with or at risk of blood borne viruses, including HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and hepatitis D. Working across hospital and community settings, the post holder will provide an integrated specialist service that supports early diagnosis, treatment, prevention and long-term management of BBV infection. The role will involve managing a complex caseload, undertaking specialist clinical assessment, supporting treatment and monitoring, providing health promotion and education, and coordinating care across organisational and professional boundaries. The post holder will act as a senior clinical resource and expert practitioner, providing specialist advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals. They will work collaboratively with HIV, infectious diseases, hepatology, sexual health, primary care, community, substance misuse, prison healthcare and voluntary-sector services to ensure patients receive coordinated and person-centred care, The post holder will manage a complex caseload, undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments, developing and evaluating individualised care plans, supporting diagnosis and treatment, and coordinating ongoing care. They will provide specialist advice, education and health promotion to patients, carers and healthcare professionals, promoting treatment adherence, self-management, prevention and risk reduction. A key responsibility will be strengthening the interface between hospital and community services. The post holder will work collaboratively with primary care, sexual health, infectious diseases, hepatology, substance misuse, prison healthcare, community and voluntary-sector services. The post holder will provide clinical leadership and act as an expert resource, supporting staff through education, supervision, mentorship and specialist advice. They will contribute to service development, audit, research, quality improvement and implementation of evidence-based practice. The role requires a high level of clinical autonomy, professional judgement and leadership, with a strong focus on reducing health inequalities and delivering safe, effective, compassionate and person-centred BBV care.

• Ensures prompt identification of newly diagnosed BBV patients
• Reduces clinical risk through consistent clinical decision-making
• Oversees safe antiretroviral prescribing and monitoring if needed
• Onward referrals to other HIV services if not from the Liverpool area

Without strong clinical leadership, variation in care can directly compromise patient safety.

A senior CNS ensures

• Seamless coordination between disciplines
• Clear clinical accountability
• Timely escalation of complex cases

This integration is critical for patients with comorbidities, or safeguarding needs.

Responsibilities

• Leads clinical audit and quality improvement
• Maintains robust governance structures
• Stigma-related distress -available to advise how to deal with difficult situations
• Provides expert clinical advice around testing and treatment
• Builds confidence in managing complex cases
• Long-term service stability
• Consistent, expert clinical oversight with continuity of clinical standards
• Trusting relationships with services eg BBV and ED

Sets the tone for compassionate, high-quality care Directly contributes to better clinical outcomes, The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £25.70 (standard disclosure) or £46.70 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers) are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Our statement on modern slavery We have zero tolerance of slavery and human trafficking and are committed to maintaining and improving systems, processes and policies to avoid complicity in human rights violation and to prevent slavery and human trafficking in our supply chain. The Trust policies, procedures, governance and legal arrangements are robust, ensuring that proper checks and due diligence are applied in employment procedures to ensure compliance with this legislation. We also conform to the NHS employment check standards within our workforce recruitment and selection practices. This strategic approach incorporates analysis of the Trust's supply chains and its partners to assess risk exposure and management on modern slavery.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Qualifications

• Registered general Nurse
• ENB 998 or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD/Short courses
• Degree or equivalent (relevant discipline)
• Completion of short courses in specialist field

Desirable criteria

• ENB 276, ENB 934, 280 Counselling Course, Nurse prescribing Course, Experience of advising and liaising with multi professional teams
• Experience of working in partnership with community services
• Experience of successful multi-agency working
• Demonstrable experience in HIV/Hepatitis medicine or GUM, or Infectious Diseases or drug services
• Experience of working with diverse cultural/social groups

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of experience in Infectious Diseases/ Liver services / Drug services
• Has experience in teaching both one to one and on a formal basis
• Evidence of presentation at local or national conferences
• Experience of developing pathways/protocols
• Evidence of recent audit or research involvement, Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
• Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
• Understanding how other agencies work
• IT literate
• Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy., Ability to work to deadlines and manage a diverse workload
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
• Risk assessment skills.
• Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
• Self-management and motivation skills.
• Report writing skills

Desirable criteria

• Research skills, Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.