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London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Tuberculosis Clinical Nurse Specialist
Description
Provide specialist nurse led TB services Trust wide to minimise/reduce the impact of TB.To provide specialist nursing advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers without supervision, in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team in line with local and national targets.The post holder will provide specialist TB nursing care and support and deputise for their line manager in the management of their clinical speciality. This will involve dealing with complex situations and having to take appropriate action in a variety of settings.To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and to provide cover for any area specified acting as professional role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and expertise.The post holder will be expected to work across all 3 sites as workload demands; Northwick Park, Ealing and Central Middlesex Hospitals.The TB team provides specialist advice, leadership and clinical service in relation to TB. The goals of the service are to identify and reduce the risk of people being newly infected with TB and provide high quality treatment and care for all people with TB. The TB team will achieve these goals by making all relevant groups of people aware of the facts of TB, strengthening more active case finding amongst high risk groups including contract tracing and ensuring everyone expected of having the disease has rapid access to TB services. These services are needed by a range of groups with differing needs and are delivered in a variety of settings including community settings, clinics, patients homes and in the acute sector. This is a flexible role to provide care to individuals, families and communities in response to changing local need.The TB specialist nurse will act as a positive role model for all nurses through demonstration of expert clinical practice in the area of TB. The post holder will provide specialist knowledge and advice to all healthcare professionals, patients and carers.London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.We Run Major Acute Services AtNorthwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the countryโs top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UKSt Markโs Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel diseaseEaling Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House HospiceCentral Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre. We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Denis Keane Job title: Lead Nurse TB Services Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07929797073