TB Nurses specialist | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

You will be highly motivated, conscientious and an organised nurse with the ability to be efficient in a busy clinical environment. An individual who is enthusiastic about improving patient care and is willing to go the extra mile to ensure our patients' receive the highest quality care. You will be joining a proactive and supportive team who work closely with the lead TB Consultants and pride themselves on their high quality care. Our job would provide predictable weekday hours and could be tailored to provide flexibility within the week if required.

You will be expected to travel and engage with our local community and support the management of our patients within their homes, clinics and also offering specialist support at our acute hospital New Cross Hospital.

Case management for TB Cases.

Conduct TB Nurse Led Clinic's : Mantoux/BCG, TB contact screening Active and latent TB and new entrant screening

Attend MDT and complex meetings.

Provide specialist advise to patients carer's and health professionals.

Practice within scope of personal professional competence.

Day to day supervision/training of staff/students.

Support the TB Lead Nurse in innovative and proactive approaches to the redesign of clinical services, linked to organisational priorities and in support of improved outcome.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

• Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice.


• Enhancing the patient's experience.


• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives.


• Efficient and effective use of resources.


• To provide high quality nursing care and participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care needs for the patient group.


• To deliver compassionate person-centred care, and treat patients, service users, their families and their carers with consideration, dignity and the respect you would want for yourself or your family.


• To play an active part in the continuing development of the department and contribute to the maintenance of an environment conducive to the delivery of high standards of patient care, by promoting good communication and relationships between staff, patients and carers.


• To contribute to the implementation of high quality patient care within the community and acute setting.


• To support patients in successfully completing their course of TB medication.


• To manage the risk of transmission. To lead on management of TB incidents and outbreaks.


• To develop the service in line with local and government initiatives.


• To supervise junior staff, to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.


• To contribute to service development, business planning and the clinical governance agenda