North Central London TB Network is a well established service providing world class care to patients and their carers across the five north central London boroughs. We are a nationally recognised, innovative team of nurse specialists, outreach staff and administrators who work closely with the respiratory and infectious diseases teams at the Whittington, North Middlesex, Royal Free and University College London, hospitals. We are based in the outpatient setting.
This post is an exciting opportunity to work as a TB Outreach Coordinator alongside the wider TB multi-disciplinary team. You will be employed by Whittington Health but will work predominantly in the community setting.
You will be a motivated, energetic individual who works efficiently and enjoys working with a diverse patient group including homeless people, drug or alcohol users, vulnerable migrants and people who have been in prison. The primary purpose of the role is to coordinate care to support patients to take a full course of treatment and get cured. You will also have the opportunity to develop social care skills and this is an aspect of the role that can be developed.
You will be comfortable working across hospital sites in order to meet service needs and as part of your training and development. You will be well supported by the clinical a team and the wider MDT. You will receive a comprehensive induction and your training and development needs will be discussed and supported where appropriate.
Tuberculosis often affects vulnerable people with complex health and social care needs.The TB Outreach Coordinator will work directly with this patient group as an active member of the multidisciplinary TB team to provide a flexible and responsive high quality TB Service, to ensure effective, non-judgemental outreach and social care patient management and protection of public health.
The post holder will work as a member of the TB Outreach Team and will contribute to the delivery of North Central London TB service assisting in the prevention and control of TB.
Assist the team with ensuring TB treatment completion rate targets are met.
Coordinate the TB Outreach Workers and oversee the provision of directly observed therapy (DOT) across the network.
Support the TB Outreach Lead/Case worker with outreach/social care work as required.
Lead on the provision of TB specialist education in the community across the five boroughs, raising awareness and implementing initiatives to reduce stigma in all environments.
This post will involve travelling across NCL daily and therefore requires that the post holder to be willing and able to undertake a physically active role with a flexible approach to their working day.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jacqui White Job title: Clinical Team Lead Email address: jacquiwhite@nhs.net Telephone number: 07786982420
