TB Support Worker | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	27 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£31,944 - £34,937 per annum inc HCA
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 July 2025
Location:	London,, SE13 6LH
Company:	Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7289504/196-AC902

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 andproviding care to clients with known or potential Tuberculosise.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.

· 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.



Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health

Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities

Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Acts as a support worker on a one to one basis to specific client’s by co-ordinating care.

To undertake full risk assessment of patients and Plan management in terms of Housing, benefit, immigration issues, and drug/ alcohol dependency.

Following training and assessment provide community and clinic base directly observed therapy (DOT) and undertake random urine sample checks and pill counts in order to help assess patient’s compliance.

Ability to recognise any drug side effects and to report to the named nurse.

To visits non-attendees at home to encourage further appointments and clinic sessions.

To weigh patients on every home visit or as need arise.

To develop and organise effective systems in connection with patient’s chest x-ray, sputum collections and results.

Works alongside TB Nurse Specialist to provide support and follow-up care to TB patients & their families

Ability to think from a client’s perspective and ensure feedback is incorporated into new procedures and standards

Recognises, investigate and plans in consultation with the case manager the necessary action to resolve problems in relation to failing treatment

Interactions with patients should be non-judgemental and culturally sensitive regardless of the gender, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity.

Ensuring the maintenance of patient’s privacy and dignity at all times, promoting supporting patients’ rights and choice with regards to their care

Establishes effective partnerships with patients/families and hard to reach groups

Maintaining accurate health records.

Ensuring patient referrals and investigations are undertaken.

Ability to work and provide services in a flexible way to meet the needs of the client group

Ability to work with refugees/asylum seekers, individuals affected by HIV and the homeless



Please see attached job description for full details.




This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Jul 2025