Consultant in Infection

This is an exciting opportunity for a Consultant in Infection to join our friendly existing team. The postholder will help deliver high quality infection care for the city of Liverpool, regional specialist care for the North West, and nationally recognised services in Tropical Medicine and High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID). Our base within the combined Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) has recently moved to the New Royal Liverpool University Hospital, a state of the art hospital offering 646 single occupancy rooms including 33 specialist Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit (TIDU) beds. LUHFT and TIDU offer comprehensive infection service including HIV, Viral Hepatitis, TB and NTM, travel and tropical medicine, neurological infections, OPAT, and holistic management of community and hospital acquired infections. as well as supporting the hospital through acute and general medicine provision.

The appointee will be based in LUHFT with the majority of clinical work at Royal Liverpool University Hospital but clinical services will be required at Aintree and Broadgreen Hospital sites as required. By agreement the role may involve peripheral clinics. The main duties and job plan are outlined below. The outline 10PA job plan includes 7.5-8 DCC PAs (including 2-2.5 non direct clinical PAs) and 2-2.5 supporting Programmed Activity sessions (SPAs) where all Consultants are expected to have educational supervisor responsibilities and supported to take additional managerial responsibilities as able.

On Call

On call commitments will be performed on a pro-rata basis and will include a combination of weekend and on call working. Weekday consultant on-call (Monday 9am - Friday 5pm) is rotated between the duty ward consultants in alternating one-week blocks, annualised it equates to roughly 1 in 8. Weekend on call (Friday 5pm-Monday 9am) is on a rotational basis with a roughly 1 in 7 commitment, this can be taken as an additional 1 PA or incorporated into an annualised job plan through discussion with the clinical lead.

SPA duties

Dedicated 1.5 core SPA (annualised) for audit, CME, appraisal, and revalidation is included in annualised job plans. As an active teaching and training department dedicated SPA time is given in addition to core SPA (currently 0.25 SPA per trainee for formal educational or clinical supervisor roles).

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Main Duties
1. To take responsibility at consultant level in outpatient clinics of the Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit including HIV clinics of the Liverpool Centre for Sexual Health, and tropical clinics of LSTM (if requested and appropriate)
2. To take responsibility at a consultant level in the OPAT service and to assist in the further development of the service.
3. To take responsibility at consultant level for continuing inpatient care of patients within the TIDU bedbase.
4. To help develop and maintain multidisciplinary clinical networks and care pathways appropriate to the evolving needs of diverse groups of patients. This may include development of joint clinics and virtual clinics with neighbouring Hospital and Community based Trusts, and engaging with and involving patient representative groups.