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Job overview

The service at GWC and SLG provides high quality, comprehensive services for people living with HIV with the aim of empowerment, allowing people to live well. The service has a strong focus on interdisciplinary teamwork, where many patients are co-managed via a wider multidisciplinary team. 

We are looking for a dedicated and highly motivated individual to join our friendly and hardworking nursing team who would like a challenge within the field of HIV. This opportunity will provide the selected individual with the opportunity to develop their competencies as a band 5 and gain a strong set of skills within the field of HIV, which will allow for further development.

The HIV network service offers a variety of opportunities and development including;

• A strong, well-led and organized team who work hard to ensure that patients receive safe, competent and compassionate care that we ourselves as individuals would like to receive.
• An opportunity to gain a wide variety of specialist knowledge and skills in a supportive environment with a specialist multidisciplinary team.
• Relevant professional development courses, including in house learning opportunities and competencies. This will also include protected time.
• The ability to work with other groups, organizations and charities to expand your own network of professionals and services available.
• A structured competency sign off pathway for band 5 nurses to meet the demands of the service.

Main duties of the job

To work supported within the multidisciplinary team to provide continuing care to patients attending for outpatient care.

To supervise and teach junior members of staff and learners as required, and maintain own personal development with support.

To be a safe, knowledgeable and effective practitioner at all times

To provide high quality nursing care to patients and their families, in accordance with agreed policies.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.