NHS Jobs • Headington OX3 7LE
About this role
BACKGROUND In April 2014 Oxfordshires GUM/HIV and contraceptive services merged, providing a single comprehensive level 1-3 sexual health service across Oxfordshire. The service is the largest in the Thames Valley. Attendances by a mobile student population representa significant proportionof the clinical workload in Oxford. In 2020, with thebeginning of theCOVID-18 Pandemic, service delivery was forced to change, with the closure of clinics and rapid redesign of ourservice. Asrestrictions eased, a new service modelevolved and we are providingservicesaboveand beyondwhat we were previously: with continuationofsometelemedicine services,opening upallour level 3 servicestofull capacity andre-establishingour peripheral clinics.With thishybrid of differentservices,we have on average 50,000 patient interactions a year.In addition, our postal kit service has hugely expanded.In the last4 years the service has evolved to ensure we deliver a full online service, withclinical care that is tailored to all patients needs. The HIV servicein Oxfordshire is provided byOSHSandinfectious disease team. We have an approximate 1200 patientcohort and this workload is shared jointly between the two departments. OSHS deliversoutpatient HIV servicewhereasourInfectiousDisease team delivers theinpatient and outpatient HIV service.There are joint MDTs and the potential in the future to merge the services completely.