TB Specialist Nurse Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

River Alliance of Wisconsin; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated TB Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their community clinic in Liverpool. This role focuses on providing comprehensive care for TB patients, including assessments, home visits, and education on TB and HIV testing. The successful candidate will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring high-quality treatment and support for vulnerable groups. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the community, helping to control and prevent TB while fostering strong relationships with patients and healthcare professionals. If you are passionate about public health and patient care, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse with TB nursing expertise preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage TB patients, including home visits.
• Maintain TB Data Base and monitor treatment adherence.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

TB Nursing Knowledge

Holistic Assessment

Case Management

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Tools

TB Data Base

Mantoux Test

IGRA Test

BCG Vaccine

Job description

This is a development opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, NMC registered nurse preferably with knowledge, skills and expertise in TB nursing. This would be a great secondment opportunity for a nurse passionate about caring for vulnerable groups. The TB CNS will support the team for TB community nursing providing a 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, agencies and UKHSA.

The successful applicants will be required to:

1. Assess adults and children for TB, screen by Mantoux or IGRA, administer BCG vaccine, promote and undertake HIV testing.
2. Undertake holistic assessments applying national & local guidelines, caseload manage, identify close contacts of index cases, and facilitate appropriate screening.
3. Visit patients with active TB at home across the region during their treatment, including those with MDR/XDR TB, HIV and other co-morbidities.
4. Teach, undertake service audit, and maintain IT literacy.

Applicants should have good interpersonal & communication skills, with an ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and relatives where there may be communication barriers or reassurance is required. Applicants should be able to travel in a timely manner across Merseyside to undertake home visits or deliver clinics, with unrestricted access to a vehicle.

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 post will be based in a Liverpool community clinic with close links to all relevant hospitals, community agencies and the health protection agency. 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.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Specific responsibilities include:

1. To maintain a TB Data Base detailing TB patients treatment, disease pattern, location and outcome. Also, identifying numbers of contacts and New Entrants screened and numbers of BCG’s given, to assist with management follow up and clinical audit; and to monitor effectiveness of service.
2. To follow cases out of hospital and ensure they are taking their medication as directed and monitor for any side effects, liaise with TB specialist nurse team leader and treating physicians should problems occur.
3. To identify those patients who may be at risk of non-concordance with medication and initiate and monitor strategies that will assist the client to adhere to an appropriate regimen, involving the most appropriate agencies.
4. To identify close contacts of Index cases through careful questioning and ensure that they are invited to clinic for screening for symptoms.
5. To visit all TB cases throughout their treatment, including those with multi-drug resistance and those infected with HIV.
6. Promote HIV testing and be prepared to develop knowledge and skills in HIV testing.
7. To perform Tuberculin tests at home, hospital and clinic as part of the TB testing programme and to interpret the results and take the appropriate action.
8. To administer the BCG vaccine to individuals.
9. Nurse prescribing.

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Apr 2025.