Job Summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Intermediate level of Education NVQ
- Evidence of literacy and numeracy to GCSE level
Desirable
- Fluency in a language other than English, relevant to patient group
Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- Substantial knowledge of managing public/charity money and understanding financial responsibility
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Experience administering drugs and interacting with patients
- Substantial experience managing petty cash
- Experience applying for charity funds for individual patients
Skills and Ability
Essential
- 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
- Ability to carry out tasks in a busy, ever-changing environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 09 July 2025
