Band 6/7 Infectious Diseases CNS Development Opportunity

Job summary

The department of infection is seeking to appoint an infectious diseases specialist nurse to join the Complex Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy (COpAT) team. You will have the opportunity to manage a wide variety of infections across all specialities. You would be joining a thriving team of medics, community practitioners, pharmacists and nurses. The department is rapidly developing and expanding offering the opportunity to be involved with quality improvements projects, innovations and research.

Grade appointed is dependant on experience and it will take 6-12 months training to complete the competency programme.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of the UHB COpAT team to co-ordinate and seek referrals to the service within UHB and ensure robust clinical management of these patients throughout their treatment in conjunction with the relevant community team.

The successful candidate will be expected to review suitability of referrals, monitor patients throughout their treatment, manage a caseload of patients and at all times work closely with the infectious diseases multi-disciplinary team.

The ideal candidate must be highly motivated, have the ability to work within secondary and primary care, be confident and willing to undertake self-directed and supervised learning.

You will be expected to work across all trust hospital sites and undertake some community visits as necessary

This post is advertised as Band 6/7 dependant on experience. If appointed at band 6 you will undertake a period of 6-12 months training and successfully complete a competency programme to ensure autonomous practice is achieved.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Employer's website

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)

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