Consultant Microbiologist

This is a full-time post consisting of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week for a Consultant in Infection (Microbiology and Virology) based at Queen Alexandra hospital, Portsmouth. This includes 7 PAs direct clinical care (DCC) which includes 1 PA working for the respiratory team and 2 PA for supporting professional activities (SPA) and 1PA per week for out-of-hours work shared equally between the consultant medical microbiologists of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.

**Consultant Clinical Duties**

(DCC) will consist of providing an advisory infection service covering bacteriology, mycology and virology to the Trust and our community partners during weekday working hours of 9:00-17:00, a total of 24 hours p/w (6PAs per week), days worked will be agreed mutually but will include all day Thursday as duty consultant in the laboratory. The post-holder will be expected to provide input to antimicrobial stewardship, laboratory diagnostics and support the infection prevention team.

The post-holder will be expected to participate in teaching of laboratory staff, junior doctors, and other healthcare staff including pharmacists, to undertake professional development, participate in clinical audit, comply with essential skills training and to undertake annual appraisal for re-validation purposes.