Band 4 HIV - Hepatitis Results Tracker/Senior Support Worker

Job summary

This role will involve contributing to the overall activity of HIV service, working alongside colleagues in the Opt-out BBV testing and linkage to care team. They will support the development and training of future band 3 HIV Nurse or Health advisor support worker role. They will also work with the wider HIV and blood borne virus team. They will also be working with the HIV MDT and Hepatitis MDT to support services for patients receiving specialist HIV care within the Birmingham Heartlands HIV service. The role entails seeing patients in a variety of settings including hospital, community venues or their own home.

Main duties of the job

Liaise with laboratory teams at the QEH, BHH and GHH laboratories run by UHBFT but also the UKHSA to get automated lists of all "non-negative" HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C tests including reactive, indeterminate, rejected samples, or requests with no samples received and work to resolve each of these, so that:

*Reactive results are either confirmed positive or confirmed negative.

*Individuals with true positives results are prioritised and encouraged to engage with clinical services.

*Indeterminate results are repeated.

*Where tests are not done (rejected/or not sent) the patient is informed and offered tests at a variety of clinical or non-clinical settings

*To independently run phlebotomy lists when required to do these tests and inform patients of results.

*This may include performing HIV and hepatitis point of care testing or fingerpick BBV testing when venous access is not possible.

*This may involve visiting individuals in the community, in conjunction with other members of the BBV MDT or community groups to tests individuals not engaging with the service.

*Keep high quality records of these activities.

*Feedback to line manager and to BBV lead to work on improvements in service provided by this role.

For a full list of main duties please refer to the job description.

Job responsibilities

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.

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