TB Outreach Worker

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 Worker 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 support patients to take a full course of treatment and get cured.

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., Contribute to the delivery of NCL TB service assisting in the prevention and control of spread of TB.

Work as part of the multi-disciplinary North Central London (NCL) TB Network to provide a flexible and responsive high quality TB service, to ensure effective patient management and protection of public health

Provide the supervision of TB medication (directly observed therapy - DOT) across NCL TB Network and undertake TB case manager support activities.

Assist the team with achieving the TB treatment completion rate target.

Undertake other assigned tasks to patients within the NCL TB service as designated by the clinical team.

This post is strenuous and involves travelling across the network daily using public transport and therefore requires that the post holder is flexible and energetic in their approach to work

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.