Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-8151252-MB
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
TB Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic person looking for a diverse role to join our WSH TB service.
We are looking for someone with good interpersonal and communication skills, good organisational ability, and the ability to work on your own initiative. You will need to enjoy working in a small team and be able to prioritise your own workload and be confident in working with patients with complex and challenging needs. You will need to identify contacts requiring tracing and follow up as per national guidelines. You will need to ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedure so the the patients under our care have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.
You will need to communicate with the wider community services and provide support and education in accordance with nationally and locally agreed guidelines.
Main duties of the job
The role will be mainly community based, working alongside our specialised TB nurse as part of the multi-disciplinary team, providing high quality TB care in collaboration with other services to provide a seamless service for people receiving TB treatment.
Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the job Role and Person Specification, please see attached Job Description.
The closing date for this vacancy may change if we receive a strong response. Please ensure that you apply for any post you are interested in as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties
- Professional degree or level 5 diploma in relevant field
Desirable criteria
- Appropriate statutory professional body registration NMC/HCPC
- Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an Acute NHS Trust or setting
- Working as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
- Theoretical and clinical knowledge appropriate to service area and profession
- Knowledge of Standards of Conduct
- Knowledge of relevant current issues in health and social care
- Demonstrates awareness of limits to knowledge base
- Basic understanding of clinical governance and quality measures
Desirable criteria
- Working in community or primary care-based teams
- Experience of facilitating clinical supervision
- Pre-registration experience in the clinical field or a closely related clinical area
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Assessment, planning and evaluation skills
- Performs test / procedures / diagnostics relevant to clinical role proficiently
- Analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Workload management including delegation of tasks
- Competent IT skills e.g. word processing, email in order to maintain electronic patient records
- Effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex or potentially distressing information to patients / carers
- Risk assessment skills
- Reflective practice skills
- Able to research, understand and evaluate evidence to contribute to practice development
Desirable criteria
- Experience in research and/or clinical audit
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Displays care, compassion, sensitivity and responsiveness to other peoples’ feelings and needs
- Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace
- Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their carers
- Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload
- Ability to deal with change; able to respond to the changing needs of the patient in an appropriate and timely manner. willing to change and accept change and to explore new ways of doing things and approaches
- Evidence of good attendance and timekeeping
- Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust
- Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerri Welham
- Job title
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Lisa Tatham
Interim Service Manager
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