Job summary We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a 10 PA Substantive post Jointly in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team of 7.3 WTE Microbiologists and 7.5 WTE Infectious Diseases in the provision of a high quality Infection Service to the Trust and other users. This post is to commence as soon as possible following a successful interview. The post holder would be required to participate in the provision of ID and MM on call and management of acute and chronic infections to support the trust. In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit. The post-holder must be a registered medical practitioner and on the Specialist Registrar of the GMC for Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. The post is suitable for consultants at any stage of their career. MRCP and/or FRCPath (or equivalent) are requirements for the posts. Applicants must be registered with the GMC and on the specialist register for infectious diseases or Microbiology, or within 6 months of CCT. Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification. Main duties of the job This is a post with 10 PA s (7.5 DCC, 1.5 SPA) and 1 PA for OOH on call duties to support the clinical service in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the Trust. The successful applicant will be based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary but with a need to cross cover Freeman site duties as necessary. This is a new post and is based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary as part of the Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology- Infection Services. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Deepa Nayar (Head of Dept Jointly with Dr S Waugh ) on 0191 213 7777, or via email at deepa.nayarnhs.net and Dr David Price, Acting Head of Department, Infection and Tropical Medicine via e-mail: david.price15nhs.net Secretary: michelle.hurst6nhs.net 0191 282 3854 Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification. About us Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Date posted 17 February 2025 Pay scheme Hospital medical and dental staff Grade Consultant Salary £105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 317-CON-25-041 Job locations Microbiology - Corporate Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN Job description Job responsibilities Infectious Diseases Clinical: Provide expert opinions on patients with infectious disease complaints, taking independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to the unit Participate in regular clinical multidisciplinary meetings Undertake regular ward rounds (daily presence during 1st-on-call week, minimum twice-weekly during 2nd-on-call week. To undertake clinical duties in such a way that meets with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives Lead on departmental provision of general medical care outside of the specialist department, including medical boarding and winter pressures Contribute pro rata to the Infectious Diseases on-call rotas as outlined below On-call: On-call commitment will be 1 in 16 pro rata, covering Infectious Diseases on a 24 hour, 7 day on-call week basis, which will attract 0.5 PA pro rata and an on-call commitment for Medical Microbiology Infectious Diseases on-call includes daily on-call for ID Ward 19, provision of external advice, regular ward rounds including Saturdays and Sundays on the Infectious Diseases unit, and providing specialist opinion to other teams in the Trust on a consult basis. A pan-regional telephone advice service is offered, supported by direct admission of patients to the ID unit at the discretion of the on-call ID consultant. The service is currently supported by an ID StR on-call between the hours of 0900 and 2100 7 days per week, and a General Internal Medicine StR outside those hours. The unit is also on 24/7 standby for HLIU/HCID activities. Additionally there is a requirement as part of the clinical directorate of medicine to look after medical boarders/winter pressure boarders and additional Covid-19 boarders in line with departmental duties There is an additional ID on-call commitment providing telephone advice 24/7 for non-specialist clinicians in Northern Ireland. Medical Microbiology Clinical: Clinical: The Microbiology / Virology Department is very clinically orientated and the duties of the post include regular ward visits including visits to ITUs, review of consults and patients with chronic or complicated infections, daily clinical meetings, attendance at ward rounds and relevant MDTs and telephone consultations. This also involves development of the clinical service, protocols and guidelines. Antimicrobial Stewardship: The post holder will help to further develop antimicrobial stewardship and improve and further implement audits within the Trust, working with the well-established pharmacists and IT teams. Laboratory: Duties in the laboratory include bench rounds (physical or virtual via TEAMS if based at the RVI site), providing day-to-day supervision of diagnostic methods and examination of specimens, authorisation and interpretation of results and attendance at laboratory meetings. This also includes training the junior medical and laboratory staff, and participation in development of laboratory protocols and procedures. Duties also involve participation in business planning and helping the laboratory to maintain full accreditation with UKAS. Infection prevention and control: The Trust is committed to minimising risks of healthcare associated infection to patients, visitors and staff. All employees are required to be familiar with and comply with Infection Prevention and Control Policies (IPC) relevant to their area of work and must participate in IPC training and activities commensurate to their role. IPC duties include providing advice relating to day-to-day IPC issues, meeting with Infection Prevention and Control staff, attending or chairing infection meetings including outbreak meetings and Root Cause Analysis as appropriate and IPC Committee meetings/forums. This time allocation of tasks may vary, depending on agreed assignment of other duties. On-call: Trainees are mostly first on-call for microbiology queries, supervised by consultants for weekday evening shifts and weekends after 12 noon. This work is carried out mostly via the telephone. Consultants are required to be first on call, on some weekends where there are gaps in rota and also all weeknights from 10 pm till 9 am of next morning. There is an arrangement to cross-cover a neighbouring Trust for on-call (Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust), however an on- site presence at Northumbria is not required. The appointee will participate in the Consultant on-call and the microbiology transplant rota (for the provision of out-of-hours advice related to infection in transplantation). Acute Laboratory cover for Saturdays and Sundays and Bank Holidays 9-12 Medical cover is also required and can be on site or from home since TEAMS working has been acceptable Post Covid. This acute lab work requires 1 trainee and 1 Consultant to cover one site each (RVI and Freeman) and complete all proactive work of new results and infection cases and handovers and follow up of patients on wards and ITUs. Time off in lieu will be given for Bank Holiday and weekend working by mutually convenient arrangement (department and the individuals) and is currently 1 Day in TOIL per weekend/BH worked. On-call will be 1 in 13 as a joint on-call rota with Northumberland Consultants, and a 1 in 7.5 transplant on-call ( Recent diary of activity in 2022 led to a tally of each Cons doing a weekend in 5.2 weekends) responsibility and it attracts a Category A on call supplement. Cross-Cover for Clinical Duties with Colleagues: You will be expected to provide cross-cover for your colleagues during periods of leave and short term sickness absence. Study Leave: There is an entitlement of up to 10 days paid study leave (including off-duty days falling within the period of leave) per annum, subject to Trust approval. Funding for study leave is subject to available resource and applications will be evaluated according to criteria outlined in the Trust study leave policy. Final approval for funding will be undertaken by the Trust Education and Workforce Development Team in conjunction with the relevant Head of Service or Clinical Director. Supporting Professional Activities (SPA): The time that is devoted to SPA within the Job Plan will be likely to vary at different times in a Consultants career. The Trust believes that full time Consultants require 6 hours per week, on average, (1.5 PAs) to undertake the core activities common to everyone within SPA, such as undertaking CPD, mandatory training, appraisal (separate SPA time is not identified by the Trust formally for appraisal preparation) and revalidation, attendance at department management and audit meetings and other appropriate meetings such as the Antimicrobial Steering Group, and Infection Prevention and Control Committee, basic trainee supervision etc. Additional SPA time is recognised for further activity with a measurable output, which might include regular teaching, training supervision, department management or audit lead. This will be agreed through the regular Job Plan review mechanism, usually up to the maximum of 2.5 SPAs. Teaching: The duties of the role include: The supervision and training of junior medical staff in Combined Infection Training, Medical Microbiology, Virology and Infectious Diseases Teaching undergraduate medical students, postgraduates and others including Biomedical Scientists, nursing staff and the professions allied to medicine. Where appropriate an application may be made for the appointee to be granted the title of Associate Clinical Lecturer in Microbiology. Flexibility: In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work. For full details of the Job Description, please read attached Job Description and Person Specification. Job description Job responsibilities Infectious Diseases Clinical: Provide expert opinions on patients with infectious disease complaints, taking independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to the unit Participate in regular clinical multidisciplinary meetings Undertake regular ward rounds (daily presence during 1st-on-call week, minimum twice-weekly during 2nd-on-call week. To undertake clinical duties in such a way that meets with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives Lead on departmental provision of general medical care outside of the specialist department, including medical boarding and winter pressures Contribute pro rata to the Infectious Diseases on-call rotas as outlined below On-call: On-call commitment will be 1 in 16 pro rata, covering Infectious Diseases on a 24 hour, 7 day on-call week basis, which will attract 0.5 PA pro rata and an on-call commitment for Medical Microbiology Infectious Diseases on-call includes daily on-call for ID Ward 19, provision of external advice, regular ward rounds including Saturdays and Sundays on the Infectious Diseases unit, and providing specialist opinion to other teams in the Trust on a consult basis. A pan-regional telephone advice service is offered, supported by direct admission of patients to the ID unit at the discretion of the on-call ID consultant. The service is currently supported by an ID StR on-call between the hours of 0900 and 2100 7 days per week, and a General Internal Medicine StR outside those hours. The unit is also on 24/7 standby for HLIU/HCID activities. Additionally there is a requirement as part of the clinical directorate of medicine to look after medical boarders/winter pressure boarders and additional Covid-19 boarders in line with departmental duties There is an additional ID on-call commitment providing telephone advice 24/7 for non-specialist clinicians in Northern Ireland. Medical Microbiology Clinical: Clinical: The Microbiology / Virology Department is very clinically orientated and the duties of the post include regular ward visits including visits to ITUs, review of consults and patients with chronic or complicated infections, daily clinical meetings, attendance at ward rounds and relevant MDTs and telephone consultations. This also involves development of the clinical service, protocols and guidelines. Antimicrobial Stewardship: The post holder will help to further develop antimicrobial stewardship and improve and further implement audits within the Trust, working with the well-established pharmacists and IT teams. Laboratory: Duties in the laboratory include bench rounds (physical or virtual via TEAMS if based at the RVI site), providing day-to-day supervision of diagnostic methods and examination of specimens, authorisation and interpretation of results and attendance at laboratory meetings. This also includes training the junior medical and laboratory staff, and participation in development of laboratory protocols and procedures. Duties also involve participation in business planning and helping the laboratory to maintain full accreditation with UKAS. Infection prevention and control: The Trust is committed to minimising risks of healthcare associated infection to patients, visitors and staff. All employees are required to be familiar with and comply with Infection Prevention and Control Policies (IPC) relevant to their area of work and must participate in IPC training and activities commensurate to their role. IPC duties include providing advice relating to day-to-day IPC issues, meeting with Infection Prevention and Control staff, attending or chairing infection meetings including outbreak meetings and Root Cause Analysis as appropriate and IPC Committee meetings/forums. This time allocation of tasks may vary, depending on agreed assignment of other duties. On-call: Trainees are mostly first on-call for microbiology queries, supervised by consultants for weekday evening shifts and weekends after 12 noon. This work is carried out mostly via the telephone. Consultants are required to be first on call, on some weekends where there are gaps in rota and also all weeknights from 10 pm till 9 am of next morning. There is an arrangement to cross-cover a neighbouring Trust for on-call (Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust), however an on- site presence at Northumbria is not required. The appointee will participate in the Consultant on-call and the microbiology transplant rota (for the provision of out-of-hours advice related to infection in transplantation). Acute Laboratory cover for Saturdays and Sundays and Bank Holidays 9-12 Medical cover is also required and can be on site or from home since TEAMS working has been acceptable Post Covid. This acute lab work requires 1 trainee and 1 Consultant to cover one site each (RVI and Freeman) and complete all proactive work of new results and infection cases and handovers and follow up of patients on wards and ITUs. Time off in lieu will be given for Bank Holiday and weekend working by mutually convenient arrangement (department and the individuals) and is currently 1 Day in TOIL per weekend/BH worked. On-call will be 1 in 13 as a joint on-call rota with Northumberland Consultants, and a 1 in 7.5 transplant on-call ( Recent diary of activity in 2022 led to a tally of each Cons doing a weekend in 5.2 weekends) responsibility and it attracts a Category A on call supplement. Cross-Cover for Clinical Duties with Colleagues: You will be expected to provide cross-cover for your colleagues during periods of leave and short term sickness absence. Study Leave: There is an entitlement of up to 10 days paid study leave (including off-duty days falling within the period of leave) per annum, subject to Trust approval. Funding for study leave is subject to available resource and applications will be evaluated according to criteria outlined in the Trust study leave policy. Final approval for funding will be undertaken by the Trust Education and Workforce Development Team in conjunction with the relevant Head of Service or Clinical Director. Supporting Professional Activities (SPA): The time that is devoted to SPA within the Job Plan will be likely to vary at different times in a Consultants career. The Trust believes that full time Consultants require 6 hours per week, on average, (1.5 PAs) to undertake the core activities common to everyone within SPA, such as undertaking CPD, mandatory training, appraisal (separate SPA time is not identified by the Trust formally for appraisal preparation) and revalidation, attendance at department management and audit meetings and other appropriate meetings such as the Antimicrobial Steering Group, and Infection Prevention and Control Committee, basic trainee supervision etc. Additional SPA time is recognised for further activity with a measurable output, which might include regular teaching, training supervision, department management or audit lead. This will be agreed through the regular Job Plan review mechanism, usually up to the maximum of 2.5 SPAs. Teaching: The duties of the role include: The supervision and training of junior medical staff in Combined Infection Training, Medical Microbiology, Virology and Infectious Diseases Teaching undergraduate medical students, postgraduates and others including Biomedical Scientists, nursing staff and the professions allied to medicine. Where appropriate an application may be made for the appointee to be granted the title of Associate Clinical Lecturer in Microbiology. Flexibility: In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work. For full details of the Job Description, please read attached Job Description and Person Specification. Person Specification Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills Essential Primary medical qualification. Full GMC registration Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC). MRCP, dual-accredited in ID and MM. Desirable Higher degree (MA, MPH, MD, PhD, or equivalent) Clinical Experience Essential Evidence of experience in the specialties. Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialties Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the specialities Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre. Management and Administration Experience Essential Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty. Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines. An understanding of Clinical Governance Desirable Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals. Evidence of leadership / project management Evidence of having implemented change. Experience in developing and implementing new technologies. Teaching Essential Experience of supervising junior medical staff. Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills Desirable Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills. Postgraduate qualification in medical education Research Essential Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings. Understanding and capability in critical appraisal of evidence. Desirable Higher degree. Publications in the last five years. Audit Essential Evidence of participation in audit. Desirable Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement Personal Attributes Essential Alignment with the Trust's values. Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce A commitment to personal/unit CPD. Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work Person Specification Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills Essential Primary medical qualification. Full GMC registration Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC). MRCP, dual-accredited in ID and MM. Desirable Higher degree (MA, MPH, MD, PhD, or equivalent) Clinical Experience Essential Evidence of experience in the specialties. Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialties Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the specialities Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre. Management and Administration Experience Essential Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty. Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines. An understanding of Clinical Governance Desirable Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals. Evidence of leadership / project management Evidence of having implemented change. Experience in developing and implementing new technologies. Teaching Essential Experience of supervising junior medical staff. Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills Desirable Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills. Postgraduate qualification in medical education Research Essential Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings. Understanding and capability in critical appraisal of evidence. Desirable Higher degree. Publications in the last five years. Audit Essential Evidence of participation in audit. Desirable Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement Personal Attributes Essential Alignment with the Trust's values. Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce A commitment to personal/unit CPD. Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work 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). Additional information 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). Employer details Employer name The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Address Microbiology - Corporate Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN Employer's website https://careers.nuth.nhs.uk/why-us (Opens in a new tab)