At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to manage infections and provide clinical advice.
- Company: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, dedicated to outstanding patient care.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, supportive environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with excellent training and development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patient care while advancing your medical career.
- Qualifications: GMC registration and experience in clinical microbiology required.
The predicted salary is between 113565 - 150569 £ per year.
This appointment is for an exciting clinical position in an active and friendly Clinical Microbiology/Infection service. We are looking for a Consultant in Medical Microbiology or Microbiology & Infectious Disease to take up an 8PA consultant post as a replacement to join our existing team of consultants. The team is supported by two excellent OPAT nurses, 2 HSST trainees, 1 STP trainee, 1 clinical scientist, 2 LTFT SpRs and 2 FY2s (one shared with GU medicine). The department operates a two-consultant duty model during normal working hours with one covering Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH), one covering Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (RHCH), as well as providing advice to primary care. Authorisation of laboratory results is shared between the consultant team and a clinical scientist. The laboratory scientific team are based in the Microbiology laboratory at Basingstoke Hospital. There is an essential services laboratory at RHCH which performs blood culture incubation, respiratory PCR and a number of other diagnostic tests to support rapid infection and infection control decision making.
Main duties of the job
- Undertake result reporting in core hours
- Respond in a timely manner to clinical and laboratory enquiries (in line with RCPath KPIs)
- Out of hours clinical advice on call on a 1:7 rota including weekends, week nights and bank holidays. Remote access is available to allow remote interrogation of LIMS and other Trust electronic systems (radiology, prescribing) when on call.
- Ensure that important findings rapidly reach the requesting clinicians and advise regarding appropriate action
- Be involved in the clinical management of patients in the hospital and community. This includes both daily ward rounds to ITU and complex infection patients as described above.
- Supervise and support the junior doctors and trainee clinical scientist in Microbiology as appropriate to their stage of training and needs.
- Liaise with the infection prevention nurses and DIPC and ensure day to day input as appropriate to operational infection prevention work including outbreak investigation and management, should this be required.
- Support the leads for antibiotic usage, Infection Control and department and Pathology management as appropriate.
About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over 500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
- Professional Qualifications
- Essential: Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- Entry onto GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCP (UK) & FRCPath or equivalent qualification
- CCT in Microbiology/Infectious Disease or Microbiology or equivalent
- Desirable: UK/NHS experience
- Clinical Experience
- Essential: Ability to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in the management of infection & Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Experience of ward based clinical microbiology liaison & consultation.
- Desirable: Experience in Antibiotic Review/Stewardship Service
- Experience in care of inpatients & outpatients with HIV, TB, Hepatitis
- Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Service; Infection Clinic experience
- Previous experience as Infection Control Doctor
- Attendance at relevant courses
- Clinical Skills
- Essential: Laboratory & Clinical experience in bacteriology, virology, mycology & parasitology
- Good IT skills/experience of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
- Desirable: Demonstration of research experience in clinical microbiology
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training & certification
- Research & Teaching
- Essential: Understanding of clinical governance and the individual responsibilities it implies
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical audit and evidence of participation
- Experience of teaching / training junior medical staff
- Desirable: Experience of teaching medical students
- Experience of supervising trainee Microbiologists
- Other Specific Requirement
- Essential: Ability to communicate effectively with clinical colleagues and support staff
- Excellent communication skills in both spoken and written English
- Ability to present effectively to an audience, using a variety of methods, and to respond to questions and queries
- Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload & to delegate responsibly
- Ability to take responsibility and show evidence of leadership
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