Are you an experienced and passionate HIV specialist nurse looking for your next leadership role? Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health is seeking a highly motivated Lead HIV Clinical Specialist Nurse to join our dedicated team of Consultants, Doctors, Nurses, Health Advisors, and administrative colleagues.This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 7 nurse with at least three years’ experience in HIV care and a qualification in advanced clinical practice. The successful candidate will work autonomously within the service, delivering safe, current, and effective care to a caseload of patients, including prescribing and switching HIV regimens. You will have the expertise to perform advanced assessments and clinical reviews, making key decisions regarding patient care alongside HIV Consultants and the wider MDT.In this leadership role, you will drive service development at both a local and strategic level, playing a pivotal role in the redesign and modernisation of HIV provision across Coventry and Warwickshire. Working closely with the Clinical Lead for HIV and the Service Manager, you will ensure the service remains safe, effective, and forward-thinking.This is a full-time position, working 37.5 hours per week.For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kerrie Beasley at kerrie.beasley@hcrgcaregroup.com.Package DescriptionAs a Lead HIV Clinical Specialist Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Coventry. You will feel valued as a Lead HIV Clinical Specialist Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Band 8a salary of £53,755 - £60,504 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditionsFree tea and coffee at your base locationMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality CommissionMain ResponsibilitiesLead and coordinate the HIV Clinical Specialist Nurse-led clinic across Coventry and Warwickshire.Provide expert clinical care, including sexual health, immunisations, cervical cytology, and contraception.Perform advanced assessments, prescribing, and switching HIV regimens as part of patient care.Ensure a seamless transition into care for newly diagnosed HIV clients, completing baseline assessments and escalation as needed.Collaborate with MDT, BHA for Equality, and strategic leads to develop and modernise HIV services.Drive service development and redesign, ensuring high-quality patient care and collaborative working.Maintain open communication with patients, carers, and partner organisations to improve service delivery.Support a culture of continuous learning, ensuring colleagues receive Protected Learning Time, Clinical Supervision, and ongoing professional development.Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.The Ideal CandidateEducation & QualificationsRegistered Nurse with a degree-level qualification.Independent Nurse Prescriber with a specialist qualification in advanced clinical practice.Teaching qualification and experience mentoring staff and students.Working at Level 4 NHIVNA competency and completion of BASHH/BHIVA or other relevant courses.ExperienceAt least three years' experience working at an advanced level in HIV services.Proven leadership and management experience, with the ability to work autonomously.Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, building and sustaining professional partnerships.Strong understanding of clinical governance and risk management.Skills & AbilitiesAdvanced clinical skills, including symptomatic STI assessment, diagnosis, and management.Strong professionalism, communication, and interpersonal skills.Competent in clinical assessment, triage, and identifying complex HIV-related health issues.Ability to interpret and utilise clinical results to inform patient care.Please see the attached job description for full person specification.This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced nurse to take on a leadership role and drive the development of HIV services across Coventry and Warwickshire!About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. 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