Consultant in Medical Microbiology (with/without Infectious Diseases)
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The appointment is for an exciting clinical position in an active friendly Clinical Microbiology/Infection service. We are looking for a 7PA consultant to support our existing 4.9 WTE consultants for a period of 3 months with a view of possible extension. The team is supported by two excellent OPAT nurses, 2 HSST trainees, 1 STP trainee, 2 LTFT SpRs (shared with Porton Down), and 2 FY2s (shared with GU medicine). This post is to cover a current vacant post and ideally would involve cross-site cover of clinical duties.
The department operates a two consultant duty model with one covering Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH) and one covering Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (RHCH), along with calls from primary care and laboratory authorisation of Primary Care/Serology work. The laboratory scientific team is 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.
Clinical duties include the following:
* 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 1:8 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, including daily ward rounds to ITU and complex infection patients.
* By mutual agreement, candidates with an interest in participating in the OPAT service and Infection clinic may rotate to cover this service.
* 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.
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.
For further information about this role please see the Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Contract
Job function
* Consulting
* Industries: Business Consulting and Services
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