Team Leader Community TB

This is an development opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, NMC registered nurse preferably with knowledge, skills and expertise in TB nursing to provide Leadership and management to the TB Team . The Team provides comprehensive Pan Mersey TB service encompassing disease control, care and prevention.

The team adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, maintaining close links to all relevant hospitals, community agencies and United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) The Team will coordinate contract tracing on behalf of UKHSA in line with TB control board guidelines.

The successful applicant will be required to assess adults and children for TB, screen with Mantoux or IGRA, administer BCG vaccine, promote and undertake HIV testing, undertake holistic assessments applying national and local guidelines, caseload manage, identify close contacts of index cases and facilitate appropriate screening. There is a requirement to visit adults, children and families with active TB at home across the pan Mersey region during their treatment, including those with MDR/XDR TB, HIV and other co morbidities. There is a requirement to teach, undertake service audit, and maintain IT literacy.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated enthusiastic practitioner who strives to deliver person centred care underpinned by excellent clinical skills and knowledge and Leadership is able to work autonomously ., The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service in the defined area. The post holder will be required to provide team leadership and management to a team. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients/clients.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.