Consultant in Infection

Applications are invited for a new substantive consultant post within the Department of Infection at Barts Health NHS Trust. This post has been created as part of the rightsizing of the Department. This post is based primarily at St Bartholomew's (SBH) and Whipps Cross University (WXUH) hospitals on a rotational basis, although the successful applicant may rotate to other Trust sites. This post provides excellent opportunities to work in an academic tertiary referral centre and a busy district hospital in the East End of London. This post is suitable for consultants accredited in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing department of Microbiologists, Virologists and Infectious diseases physicians, as well as working in a Trust with an on-site diagnostic laboratory.

Main duties of the job:

• The successful candidate will work alongside colleagues to deliver an infection service for in and out-patients and the local communities.
• Play an active role in the general workload of the department including on calls and overseeing the resident doctors.
• At SBH, provide a consultant service for the Heart and Cancer Centre, the Cancer Centre, the ITUs and Respiratory medicine, as well as the OPAT service alongside consultant colleagues.
• At WXUH, deliver a broad infection service covering the hospital site along with consultant colleagues.
• Participate in the OPAT and outpatient ID activity.
• Work as part of an integrated Department of Infection, joining 19 permanent and 5 secondment/honorary consultant colleagues across the Trust.
• Participate fully in delivery of diagnostic, clinical, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control services to patients, staff and local general practitioners.
• Deliver departmental teaching activity, including training of clinical scientists and specialist registrars in Medical Virology, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Applicants are expected to have FRCPath in Medical Microbiology, or show evidence of equivalent. This posts workload roughly equates to a job plan of 8 DCC and 2 SPA.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.

Job responsibilities:

• Support the current consultants in the provision of a timely, comprehensive and efficient clinical and diagnostic infection service at each site.
• Perform duties expected of a microbiology consultant with regards delivery and advice on urgent and important results.
• Support ward rounds and MDTs, delivery of OPAT and other outpatient activity.
• Provide a clinical microbiology service to the specialties at SBH alongside consultant colleagues.
• Provide a comprehensive consultant infection service to WXH.
• Contribute to authorization of results, laboratory liaison, public health liaison and reactive microbiology service for the site.
• Provide trust-wide infection control responsibilities alongside infection control leads.
• Provision of antimicrobial stewardship alongside pharmacy colleagues.
• Provision of clinical supervision to specialty and clinical scientist trainees.

Person Specification:

• Registerable medical qualification (MBChB, MBBS or equivalent).
• 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.