Lead TB Clinical Nurse Specialist

Manage and lead a specialist TB service withresponsibility for ensuring high quality, expertnursing care and support for patients and theircarers with a diagnosis of TB, MDRTB and nontuberculous mycobacteria, ensuring assessment and coordination of care in liaison with the multidisciplinary team and other health agencies.

o Responsible for the assessment, planning, diagnosis implementation and evaluation of care, as an autonomous practitioner with highly specialist skills in TB.

o Lead on improving the quality of the servicethrough the development of nursing practice in linewith local and national strategy and guidanceensuring a robust and excellent service.

o To be an expert nurse with strategic input at regional and national level.

o Tuberculosis Control Board representative for the East of England, working in collaboration with UKHSA, NHS England.

o Be actively involved in the development of theservice locally and nationally ensuring positiveworking relationships with partner trusts andCambridge and Peterborough TB network whichincludes local authority, integrated care boards,primary care and public health colleagues.

Do you want to contribute to world class outcomes for TB patients?

The TB Specialist Nurse team at CUH are pivotal in ensuring TB patients continue to receive world class care. The team are looking for an expert nurse practitioner to lead the TB CNS service at CUH.

If you have extensive experience in TB nursing and are passionate about making a real difference for patients diagnosed with TB then this could be the job for you., Come Nurse with us...

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.