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Consultant Microbiologist

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive 10 PA Consultant Medical Microbiologist due to retirement of a colleague to start January 2025 to join a team of dynamic Consultants at UCLH.

This post is extremely varied and will give the post-holder an opportunity to gain experience in a wide variety of infection liaison activities.

The main activities are:o A leading role in overseeing the clinical infection service to urology and thoracic surgery at the UCLH Westmoreland Street Hospital. This includes aspects of diagnosis and management of infection, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and Leading microbiology role in the recurrent urinary tract infection MDTo Supporting the microbiology liaison to the Haematology service through:o Daily multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting with Grafton Way intensive care unit (mainly haematology patients)o Contribution to weekly national MDT for HLH (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis)o Contributing to the Consultant general clinical microbiology service through leading on the daily bacteraemia / complex case meetingo Contribute to the Trust's infection control and antimicrobial stewardship activities through:o Sharing in leading on Clostridiodes difficile ward roundso Contributing to antimicrobial stewardship data mapping within the infection division to develop future interventions

Main duties of the job

The job plan is expected to comprise 10 PAs per week on average including the on-call commitment ( PAs Direct Clinical Care and up to PAs Supporting Professional Activities).

The appointee will be lead on laboratory liaison, microbiological and infection control advice and antimicrobial stewardship for Urology and Thoracic Surgery. The post also supports the monthly recurrent urinary tract infection MDT.

Microbiology support to Haematology in this post involves a daily MDT for the Grafton Way intensive care unit (mainly haematology patients) and attendance at the national 2 weekly MDT for HLH (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis). There is likely to be an opportunity to widen the activity in this post for Haematology later in the year.

Contribution to the Trust's infection control and antimicrobial stewardship activities will be through sharing in leading on Clostridiodes difficile ward rounds and contributing to antimicrobial stewardship data mapping within the infection division to develop future interventions.

To help support this work, the post holder will contribute to key laboratory governance activities including attendance at laboratory working groups, for example the urine bench.

The appointee will be required to participate in the consultant on-call rota (Category B) for weekdays and weekends. There is a rota for specialty registrars who are first on call. The frequency of the Consultant rota for this post is 1 in 9 and is considered low frequency.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Clinical Microbiology is within the Infection Division which is one of six Divisions within the Medicine Board led by Charles House. The Infection Division comprises the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, infectious diseases inpatient and outpatient activity including the OPAT clinic, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Virology, Parasitology, Infection Prevention & Control, Find & Treat and NathNac. The Division works closely with the Pathology Division.

Within the Divisions of Infection each discipline has a Clinical Lead. The post holder will be accountable to Mike Brown, Divisional Clinical Director of Infection, via the Clinical Lead for Microbiology, Trupti Patel.

Within Microbiology there are 11 Consultants, many of whom are less than full time and also have other activities such as research. We are a very supportive team and aim to provide the best care for patients at UCLH through our activities.

UCLH Microbiology is a training centre with 4-5 microbiology trainees at any one time and a comprehensive training programme. The appointee would be expected to participate in the supervision, training and mentoring of junior medical staff.

As a department, we participate in a range of teaching activities including undergraduates, specialty trainees, trainees from other specialties, laboratory staff, infection control staff and trainee clinical scientist staff.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.

UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC), or be eligible for registration within six months of interview. Applicants that are UK trained, must be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Medical Microbiology, or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. Applicants that are non-UK trained will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT. FRCPath or equivalent. MRCP or equivalent. MBBS or equivalent.

Desirable

Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Infectious Diseases

Experience

Essential

Specialist experience in clinical microbiology. Routine laboratory-based diagnostic microbiological techniques including molecular assays. Reporting and interpreting microbiology results and advising clinicians. Experience of dealing with outbreaks, developing infection control policies and handling of day to day enquiries. Experience of delivering antimicrobial stewardship at a ward level.

Desirable

Experience in dealing with infections in Urology and cardiothoracic patients. Experience in dealing with infections in the ITU setting. Experience in dealing with infections in haematology patients. Training or experience in General Medicine or other related specialities, infectious diseases, haematology

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Ability to offer an expert opinion in a specialist area commensurate with the needs of the service. Ability to perform clinical examination on patients, give advice on specimen collection

Leadership

Essential

Able to show leadership, make decisions, take responsibility, exert authority

Personal and People Development

Essential

Communication: Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate. Accountability: Ability to work flexibly within specialist teams, to take responsibility, lead and make decisions where appropriate. Interpersonal Skills: Ability to see patients as people, ability to empathise and work co-operatively with others.

Desirable

Able to be a dynamic team member within the department and to contribute broadly to the running of the department.

Clinical Governance

Essential

Understands the principles of clinical governance, laboratory quality management / risk management. Evidence of participation in CME/CPD.

Desirable

Evidence of involvement in clinical governance.

Audit

Essential

Participation in clinical audit and attendance at appropriate courses. Evidence of clinical governance & high-quality audit

Research

Essential

Understanding / knowledge of research ethics

Desirable

Track record of research and publications

Management & IT

Essential

Evidence of having worked and being able to communicate within an Interdisciplinary / multispecialty service with appropriate levels of communication through direct discussions with team members, MDT meetings, and presentations to a team Basic IT skills ( email, to support presentations)

Desirable

Management course completed or evidence of knowledge of management structures & processes Experience of using an Electronic patient healthcare record system in clinical practice