TB Network Screening Lead Nurse

North Central London TB Service is a well established, networked TB service providing world class care to patients and their carers across the five north central London boroughs.We are a nationally recognised, team of nurse specialists, outreach staff and administrators who work closely with the respiratory and infectious diseases teams at the Whittington, Royal Free London, (Pond Street and North Middlesex sites) and University College London, hospitals.

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic Network Screening Lead Nurse to join our team and help shape the future of TB control. There will be opportunity to drive innovation and improvements in service delivery. You will have the freedom and support to explore new ideas, challenge existing processes and implement creative solutions to improve patient outcomes. This is a rare opportunity to work in a dedicated specialist role in TB control.You will possess excellent communication skills to support and advocate for patients who may have difficulty accessing healthcare. You will enjoy managing people, supporting staff and service development.You will be well supported by the Senior Nursing team and the wider MDT. A comprehensive induction will be provided and your training and development needs will be supported where appropriate.

You will regularly work across hospital sites and in the community setting. This is a permanent, part time contract working 30 hours/week.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Tuberculosis (TB) Nursing Team to coordinate the complete and timely contact investigation for TB incidents and outbreaks in congregate settings, across the North Central London TB Network through:

Identifying setting where contacts require screening

Identifying at risk contacts

Liaising with the Health Protection Team (HPT)

Coordinating and supporting the screening of contacts

Collecting and collating screening outcome results

Presenting screening outcomes at cohort review

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

To act as an expert resource in the management and screening of all TB contacts ensuring a consistent approach to risk assessment of TB contacts and incidents across the network in line with local and national guidelines.

To be responsible for leading and developing innovative models of screening TB contacts across the network, improving the accessibility of the service, increasing the number identified and screened, reviewing and developing protocols and ensuring local and national TB performance management targets are achieved.

To strengthen the pathway of communication between UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) HPT and NCL TB service.

To be a specialist resource in supporting cluster investigations.

To lead, in collaboration with the MDT and UKHSA on the integration of whole genome sequencing (WGS) data into clinical practice to improving contact tracing activities, including incident and outbreak investigations, and the early detection of drug resistance ensuring early change to appropriate treatment regimens.

To provide Senior TB Nurse leadership to the TB team and develop and lead on initiatives relating to workforce organisation & innovation to develop contact tracing clinical practice.

To work with colleagues to develop the strategic direction of the TB service in line with national and local targets, working closely with the MDT.

The post-holder will be flexible in their approach to their working day and will routinely work across sites and organisational boundaries.

See attached full Job Description

Person Specification Whittington Health Core Values

• Demonstrate ability to meet trust values: Innovation, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence.

Education/Qualifications

• Requires NMC registration on relevant part of the register
• Evidence of continuing Professional development
• Specialist TB Nursing course or post graduate professional qualification
• Post graduate degree or willingness to work towards
• Teaching/Mentoring course

Skills & Abilities

• Sound knowledge of current nursing and health care issues
• Ability to be self-directed but also participate as a team member
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritise own workload to pressure and meet deadlines
• IT literate
• Excellent written and verbal English demonstrated through written and verbal communication
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for communication with patients, TB team members, internal and external partners.
• Good negotiation and influencing skills
• Able to manage conflict

Knowledge & Experience

• Extensive post graduate experience working within TB services.
• Multi - professional working
• Experience of staff line management in a clinical/community setting
• Awareness of key challenges in TB nursing/TB control in the UK.
• Able to provide leadership.
• Experience working for UKHSA in a TB related nursing role
• Staff recruitment and retention
• Experience of presenting, representing services at regional/national meetings

Personal Qualities

• Effective nursing role model demonstrating values of innovation, care, respect and pride
• Polite, helpful and diplomatic
• Proactive, visible & approachable
• Good attention to detail relating to both written and verbal communication

Other

• Flexible - able & willing to travel and work across sites and in the community
• Able to work with and gain trust of key stakeholders and promote close working relationships

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearpro rata per annum Including Inner London HCAS