Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
HIV - Clinical Nurse Specialist
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About the Role
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
We are a consultant-led team of sexual health clinicians which offers high-quality, confidential sexual health services. We provide integrated sexual health clinics across East Kent (including Swale) and Medway which offer screening and treatment for sexual transmitted infections; contraception including long acting reversible contraception; HIV treatment and care services; young people’s services and sexual health promotion.
Our clinics provide appointments and walk-in sessions across East Kent (including Swale) and Medway. We support pharmacies that are providing free emergency hormonal contraception to under 30-year olds in Kent and Medway. Our specialist trained therapists also deliver psychosexual therapy services across Kent.
Responsibilities
- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating holistic care in relation to care planning/pathways
- Developing integrated care programmes in partnership with service users, commissioners and key stakeholders.
- Ensuring a supervision framework is in place for staff under their care and support in the development of relevant competencies across staff groups
- Actively working as a member of the integrated team to ensure high quality care is provided to service users.
- Maintaining own specialist area of competence, and leading on the competency frameworks for others
- Having the ability to synthesise information in order to present proposals effectively to decision makers (including Directors and Senior Executives) in ways which facilitate their understanding and influence pathways
- Making recommendations to decision makers in order to drive forward innovative solutions to achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and financial efficiencies linked to packages of prescribed care or identified projects
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Integration and Changes
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
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About Us
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Leah Elliott
- Job title: Lead HIV CNS
- Email address: leah.elliott@nhs.net
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