Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic person looking for a diverse role to join our WSHTB 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.

About us
#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?

Details
Date posted: 13 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Per Annum, Pro Rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 2 years
Working pattern: Part-time,
Flexible working
Reference number: 179-8151252-M
Job locations: West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Hardwick Lane
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 2QZ
United Kingdom

Job 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

• Professional degree or diploma in relevant field
• Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
• Appropriate statutory professional body registration NMC/HCPC
• Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties

Experience and knowledge
Essential

• Pre-registration experience in the clinical field or a closely related clinical area
• 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

• Working in community or primary care-based teams
• Experience of facilitating clinical supervision

Skills and abilities
Essential

• 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

• Experience in research and/or clinical audit

Personal qualities
Essential

• 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.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).