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- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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TB Support Worker
Closed for applications on: 30-Jun-2025 15:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 30-Jun-2025 15:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham base
- Address
- High Street, Lewisham
- Town
- London,
- Postcode
- SE13 6LH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- TB Support Worker
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Community TB Team LSL (CTT LSL) works across Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham to provide a multidisciplinary service for clients who are marginalized and have difficulty accessing primary care services and providing care to clients with known or potential Tuberculosis e.g. refugees and asylum seekers, homeless clients, and clients with addictions.
We provide centred individualised case management for our patients throughout their entire treatment following them up periodically in our Nurse led clinic, monitoring their specific blood test, CXR’s, medications, side effects to the treatment, social issues that may affect their treatment, mental and emotional status that can also affect their adherence to their Anti TB or latent TB treatment.
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· You will act as support worker to specific individuals with TB, ensuring treatment completion.
Apply risk assessment tool ensuring individualised care to complex patients with TB
Assess the patient holistically in order to identify their needs including social and financial needs.
Develop a care plan for complex patients with TB, discuss it with the nurse and follow the good practice to maintain safety.
Establish effective partnerships with complex patients and their families by assessing and developing strategies to overcome barriers of adherence.
You will work alongside the TB nurse and to provide support to patient in order to adhere and complete TB medication. This will involve visiting the client at home and providing directly observed therapy (DOT) in a variety of settings including homeless hostels.
You will be responsible in planning and organising health promotion activities and diary for both patient and team.
You will link with the mobile x-ray screening unit to improve access to all primary healthcare services.
You will be flexible in approach to the clinical area and have ability for technical numeracy, literacy skills, IT as well as significant level of inter-personal skills.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health
Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
Acts as a support worker on a one to one basis to specific client’s by co-ordinating care.
To undertake full risk assessment of patients and Plan management in terms of Housing, benefit, immigration issues, and drug/ alcohol dependency.
Following training and assessment provide community and clinic base directly observed therapy (DOT) and undertake random urine sample checks and pill counts in order to help assess patient’s compliance.
Ability to recognise any drug side effects and to report to the named nurse.
To visits non-attendees at home to encourage further appointments and clinic sessions.
To weigh patients on every home visit or as need arise.
To develop and organise effective systems in connection with patient’s chest x-ray, sputum collections and results.
Works alongside TB Nurse Specialist to provide support and follow-up care to TB patients & their families
Ability to think from a client’s perspective and ensure feedback is incorporated into new procedures and standards
Recognises, investigate and plans in consultation with the case manager the necessary action to resolve problems in relation to failing treatment
Interactions with patients should be non-judgemental and culturally sensitive regardless of the gender, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity.
Ensuring the maintenance of patient’s privacy and dignity at all times, promoting supporting patients’ rights and choice with regards to their care
Establishes effective partnerships with patients/families and hard to reach groups
Maintaining accurate health records.
Ensuring patient referrals and investigations are undertaken.
Ability to work and provide services in a flexible way to meet the needs of the client group
Ability to work with refugees/asylum seekers, individuals affected by HIV and the homeless
Please see attached job description for full details.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Intermediate level of Education NVQ
- Evidence of literacy and numeracy to GCSE level
Desirable criteria
- Fluency in a language other than English, relevant to patient group
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Substantial knowledge of issues affecting health service delivery to socially excluded populations, such as: Asylum seekers, Refugees, Homeless people, People with substance misuse issues and Individuals living with HIV
- Substantial knowledge of the NHS, statutory legislation, and relevant policies affecting these groups
- Good knowledge of TB, including: Adherence issues, TB medications, Co-infection (HIV & TB) and Drug resistance
- Equality, diversity, and inclusion: Good understanding of the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Diversity policy
Desirable criteria
- Substantial knowledge of managing public/charity money and understanding financial responsibility
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience managing health and social care needs of clients with complex needs
- Substantial experience delivering and evaluating training or health promotion programmes
- Substantial experience of one-to-one casework with complex clients
- Experience liaising with local agencies in a casework capacity
- Substantial knowledge of the issues involved in supporting people with TB and accessing TB and related services
Desirable criteria
- Experience administering drugs and interacting with patients
- Substantial experience managing petty cash
- Experience applying for charity funds for individual patients
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Open-minded approach to difficult health and social issues
- Excellent organisational skills (e.g. allocating priorities, working under pressure)
- Ability to work as part of a team and contribute to service improvement
- Ability to use IT systems (e.g. Word, Excel, clinical systems)
Desirable criteria
- Ability to carry out tasks in a busy, ever-changing environment
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rita Enuechie
- Job title
- TB Nurse Specialist Lewisham Borough Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02031926186
- Additional information
Margaret Ogedengbe (TB Nurse Manager ) Tel No:07899813267
Email: [email protected]
Anne Adegboyega (TB Support worker) Tel: 02071885816 /
M: 07565204329
Email: [email protected]
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