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Whittington Health NHS Trust

About
Whittington Health NHS Trust aims to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve.
We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an ‘integrated care organisation’.
We have an income of £350 million and over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London.
Our priority is to provide the right care, at the right time and in the right place for our patients. We provide a large range of services from the hospital, including accident and emergency (A&E), maternity, diagnostic, therapy and elderly care. We also run services from 30 community locations in Islington and Haringey. Over the past year we have reviewed and developed services to make them stronger and better support the needs of patients.
As an integrated care organisation we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience. Key to our approach is partnering with patients, carers, GPs, social care, mental health and other healthcare providers.
Our organisation has a highly-regarded educational role. We teach undergraduate medical students (as part of UCL Medical School) and nurses and therapists throughout the year, alongside providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professional.
Contact
- Address
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Magdala Avenue
- London
- N19 5NF
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Network Lead TB Nurse
Accepting applications until: 16-Jul-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 16-Jul-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Whittington Hospital
- Address
- Magdala Avenue
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- N19 5NF
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (0.6 wte (22.5))
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Infectious Diseases
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.
For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Job overview
North Central London TB Service is a well established, networked TB 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, Royal Free London, (Pond Street and North Middlesex sites) and University College London, hospitals.
Based in the outpatient setting, we reach out into the community offering a comprehensive package of care addressing both the health and social care needs of our patients.
We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic Network Lead TB Nurse. You will be an innovative, forward thinking, resilient individual who enjoys working with medically and socially complex patients. You will strive to provide an excellent service for patients in an often-challenging environment.
You will possess excellent communication skills to support and advocate for patients who may have difficulty accessing healthcare. You will enjoy managing people, supporting staff and service development.
You will be well supported by the Clinical Team Lead and the wider MDT. A comprehensive induction will be provided and your training and development needs supported where appropriate.
This is a fixed term, part time contract for 18 months working 22.5 hours/week.
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· Provide specialist, high quality, expert nursing care and support for patients with a diagnosis of TB and MDRTB, ensuring assessment and co-ordination of care in liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and other health agencies.
· Provide nursing leadership across NCL TB network by acting as a coach, mentor, role model and supervisor.
· Be an expert nurse with strategic input at regional and national level working in collaboration with UKHSA (regional and national) and NHS England.
· Lead on improving the quality of the service through the development of nursing practice in line with local and national strategy and guidance ensuring a robust, excellent service.
· Lead on improving the patient experience ensuring the needs of the patient are placed at the centre of care delivery.
· Accountable for effective management of all resources needed to deliver comprehensive, compassionate care across the network including measurement of patient outcomes in line with local and national performance measures
· Active involvement in the development of the service locally and nationally ensuring positive working relationships with partner trusts, local authority, Integrated care boards and primary care and public health colleagues.
· Instigate an established program of nursing research with published outcomes whilst updating own knowledge to promote excellence in clinical practice. .
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management Responsibilities:
- Work in conjunction with the Clinical Team Leader to manage the TB service as required by the Clinical Team Lead.
- Manage nursing and support staff who provide direct patient care. To ensure that appropriate management systems are in place to provide support and leadership within these areas including:
- Service planning and objective setting
- Effective communication systems including team and departmental briefings.
- Induction, appraisal and identification of training needs for all areas of line management responsibility.
- Model demand and capacity and to plan the service accordingly
- Co-ordinate, implement and monitor Clinical Governance processes working to ensure effective and robust mechanisms are in place. To ensure that the Trust's legal and statutory obligations are fulfilled, including taking the lead on the provision of a healthy and safe environment for staff and patients in areas of responsibility.
- Be responsible for monitoring and investigating incidents and complaints relating to defined clinical areas and departments. Take appropriate action, formulating reports and communicating learning through formal clinical governance structures. To participate with clinical staff, in meetings with patients and or relatives in complex cases to seek clarification and aid resolution.
- Ensure national and London TB performance targets are met.
- Ensure TB services support the surveillance and data input required by national agencies i.e UKHSA
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Exercise a high level of personal professional autonomy.
- Be visible in the clinical area and regularly undertake clinical practice.
- Case manages patients using advanced clinical judgement to plan, implement and evaluate care for patients with complex social, physical and psychological problems.
- Initiate and implement changes in clinical practice based on current initiatives and research, but also to provide a ‘leading-edge’ service based on local and national initiatives.
- Champion nurse led services and further develop the provision of nurse led clinics incorporating non-medical prescribing.
- Identify clinical issues within the host sites that reduce quality of care of TB patients. Take the lead in the resolution or ensure appropriate action is taken.
Please see attached job description for full list of responsibilities
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form –
- Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
- Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes –
- Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
- If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
- Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
- Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information –
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
- In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education/Qualifiactions
Essential criteria
- NMC registration on relevant part of the register
- Relevant post graduate professional qualification in TB, Infection Control or Public Health
- Master’s qualification or relevant master’s level experience in relevant specialist area.
- Non-medical prescriber / Advanced clinical practitioner or willing to work towards.
- Evidence of continued professional development-reviewing current practice and research developments within specialist area and application to clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Counselling/communication skills qualification
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Good team worker with a track record of building successful teams
- Evidence of participation in audit and the promotion of evidence-based practice
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills when communicating with patients, TB team members, internal and external partners
- Research appreciation and ability to influence others through research findings
- Demonstration of knowledge of strategic and national issues pertinent to nursing and area of specialty.
- Proven ability to play an active role in the recruitment & retention of staff.
- Able to develop business plans, policies and clinical protocols
- Understanding of clinical risk, clinical governance and national benchmarks
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience in TB care for a minimum of five years or significant experience in a relevant speciality in a nursing leadership position
- Experience in people management and improving the patient experience
- Experience in teaching multidisciplinary staff
- Expert clinical practitioner, ability to work autonomously
- Ability to lead within nursing and multiprofessional. working and across organisation boundaries
- Must be able to disseminate information by publication and presentation to national / international audiences.
- Competent IT skills
- Advanced expert level of knowledge/ clinical assessment skills or willingness to develop these
- Lead the facilitation of change to promote innovative practice & service development showing improved patient outcomes.
- Evidence of continued professional development – reviewing current practice and research developments within specialist area & application to clinical practice
- Demonstrate understanding of the role of the specialist area within the current health
- Robust understanding of all aspects of clinical governance including previous experience of quality issues, audit and risk management.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage conflict with use of negotiation skills
- Ability to develop working relationships locally, regionally, and nationally.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to meet Trust values: Innovation Compassion Accountability Respect Excellence
- Visible, approachable, flexible and innovative
- Able to carry out concurrent activities in an unpredictable working pattern.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jacqui White
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786982420
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- WHT
- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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