Consultant in Infectious Diseases

Applications are invited for the position of a full-time (10 PA) Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Whittington Health NHS Trust. This is a replacement post for a retiring colleague, supporting our team of two existing consultants.
**Key Details**:
**Clinical Duties**: 7.75 PA direct clinical duties
**Supporting Duties**: 2.25 SPA (including teaching, Quality Improvement, and supervision)
**Location**: Whittington Hospital, North London
**Specialisation**: Microbiology/Infectious Diseases

**Requirements**: Accredited in Micro/ID, GMC Specialist Register (or within 6 months), enthusiastic and effective teacher, and team player
**About the Department**: Our Infection Clinical Services are in modern facilities at the Whittington Hospital. We provide a multidisciplinary OPAT service and lead the South Hub of the NCL TB network. With full accreditation by UKAS and a dedicated support team, you'll have access to your own office and 0.6 WTE administrative assistance.
**Interview date**: 05 March 2025
Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Duties of the Post
Shared Laboratory Duties
Day-to-day supervision of authorisation and interpretation of the results obtained.
Liaison with HSL (our pathology providers) to continuously improve services
Provision of an on-call service in Microbiology (Consultant on-call, second on with a first on ST doctor 1 week in 3.
The appointee will be required to work 1 in 5 Saturdays (this duty is shared between the medical staff including registrars). This is allocated in PA but also time is given back in lieu. (4 hours prior to a weekend)
Clinical
The post holder will be expected to share clinical duties with the other Infection medical staff, including:

- Liaison with clinicians, hospital and community staff and GPs concerning the diagnosis and management of patients.
- Daily ward rounds of referred and follow-up cases, or patients in whom laboratory or clinical information is considered to require Infection, or control of infection, assistance or intervention.
- A daily round (Monday -Saturday) of all adult ITU patients with ITU medical staff.
- Liaison with OPAT team and reviewing patients when required.
- Liaison with TB team and reviewing patients when required.
- Attendance at relevant MDTs when requested e.g. paediatrics, diabetic foot, endocarditis, LUTS
- Sharing a lead role in antimicrobial stewardship including AMS ward rounds and co-chairing of an AMS committee each quarter with the Consultant pharmacist for AMS.

Infection Prevention & Control
Regular liaison with our IPCT team.
Advising on Trust policies for antimicrobial use and infection prevention & control.
Co-operating with the HPU in the investigation and prevention of communicable diseases.
Leading and assisting with outbreaks/post infection reviews (PIR) as required.
Attending Infection Prevention & Control Committee meetings bi-monthly.
Teaching and Training
- Supervision and training of junior medical staff in Microbiology/Infectious diseases. The post holder will assist in educational/clinical supervision, appraisal and other assessments of two ST’s in Microbiology/ID on rotation to Whittington Health.
- Assist/lead on the delivery of undergraduate Y4 UCL medical student teaching to include bedside teaching, case-based discussion sessions and infection services including assessment and evaluation of education.
- The appointee will also be expected to play a role in educating postgraduate doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in all specialities and to assist in the induction of all medical staff.