Tuberculosis Health Protection Nurse

The TB Health Protection Nurse will provide specialist expertise in nursing and public health aspects of TB care, prevention and control including supporting the delivery of the objectives of the national TB Action Plan.,

• Work in partnership with other members of the TB Unit to ensure a coordinated high-quality specialist TB clinical and public health service is available to healthcare professionals.
• Escalate and support the management of complex TB incidents and outbreaks as appropriate.
• Manage and maintain continuity for designated TB incidents and outbreaks, ensuring accurate, up to date records of contacts/action by completion of relevant records and compliance with the unit's handover procedures, in line with UKHSAs standards for record keeping.
• Provide advice about BCG immunisation to health and allied professionals.
• Lead on defined areas of work in TB workforce development activities.
• Respond to Parliamentary Business.
  
  The TB Unit sits within the TB, Acute Respiratory, Zoonoses, Emerging infection, and Travel health division (TARZET) and has a multidisciplinary team delivering surveillance, epidemiology, public health and clinical advice, microbiology and incident and outbreak response, and advice to government.
The mission of the TARZET is to protect the public from respiratory, imported, emerging, and novel infections through world-leading public health microbiology and virology, outbreak response, surveillance, research, and interventions. The TB Unit sits within TARZET and has a multidisciplinary team delivering surveillance, epidemiology, public health and clinical advice, microbiology and incident and outbreak response, and advice to government. The TB Unit work closely with NHS England and NHS Trusts, with international agencies and colleagues, and in a fully integrated way with multiple academic partners, with associated research opportunities. Elimination of TB as a public health problem is a World Health Organisation (WHO) target which the UK has signed up to., We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.