TB Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

Provide specialist nurse-led Tuberculosis (TB) services Trust wide to minimise/reduce the impact of TB

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.

Provide specialist 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 of the 3 hospital sites (Northwick Park, Ealing and Central Middlesex), acting as professional role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and research

Main duties of the job

Provision of specialist, high quality, expert nursing care and support for patients and their carers.

Act as specialist resource for patients and the clinical team by the provision of comprehensive advice, information, teaching and training both within LNWUH Trust and externally.

Actively contribute to nursing research with published outcomes and set quality standards within the specialty.

Activity contribute to the team annual report and clinical audit of the service and the team's performance within one calendar month of the end of the financial year.

Actively contribute to the development of the service nationally and locally.

Achieve all KPIs individually and ensure that all the specialty teams' KPIs are met.

About us

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 at:

• Northwick 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 country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing 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 Hospice
• Central 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.