Consultant

Locum Consultant in Adult Infectious Diseases

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

London

Salary

£113,565 – £150,569

Posted

2 weeks ago

About the role

The post holder will provide the infection support for the Guy's hospital site, though the post is part of a rotation that supports routine clinical infection work at Guy's, the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. The clinical Infection sub-specialties at Guy's include: Infections in patients with cancer. Guy's Hospital is the SE sector regional hub for Cancer including medical, clinical and surgical oncology (the new Cancer Centre opened in 2016) and has a large malignant and non-malignant haematology service. Infections in Renal Transplant and Urology services. Guys has an active kidney and pancreas transplant programme supporting the sector and is the hub for renal services and dialysis providing for a dialysis population of approx. 900 in 8 satellite units. Is considered a centre of excellence for complex elective orthopaedic and spinal services having been commissioned as SE sector hub for joint revision surgery for upper and lower limb. The site also houses the regional Thoracic surgical, Head and Neck and ENT and Urology surgical groups. There is a well-established OPAT team providing OPAT services for Guy's and St Thomas' patients, with expanding links into the South East London virtual ward initiative.

Main place of employment:Each post-holder will have a rotational post across at least two of the sites at RB&H and Guys. The nature of these roles may be tailored to the interests of the post holders, provided they meet the core service needs and are agreed with the other existing consultants. It is a requirement of your employment that you be prepared to work at any additional or different location owned or served by the Trust, either on an on-going or temporary basis according to the demands of the service. Job Planning: The post holder's job plan is anticipated to contain 10 Programmed Activities (PA) per week, to be carried out primarily one site at any one time. The exact job plan will vary dependant on site of working and discussed with the Clinical Director and Service Leads prior to any start date, particularly in order to reflect specific responsibilities that are agreed. On Call Rota:The appointee will be required to participate in the following: For the first year, participate in a 1 in 5 ID/Microbiology on-call rota dependant on site of work GSTT or RBHH (Category A) in order to authorise and communicate significant laboratory results, and provide specialist clinical advice. In addition, after the first year and depending upon clinical experience and skills, the post-holder will also be offered the chance participate in the rota for rare admissions to the HCID-a unit at St Thomas'.

Person specification

Essential

Full and Specialist GMC Registration and current licence to practise.
Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
MRCP or equivalent
On GMC Specialist Register for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases OR General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases OR Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
Comprehensive experience across the range of adult infectious diseases
Experience in writing clinical infection and/or laboratory guidelines
Working knowledge in Infection Prevention and Control in the acute care setting e.g. management of outbreaks
Working knowledge and experience of antimicrobial stewardship
Operating an Infectious Diseases clinical consult service and contributing to multidisciplinary clinical meetings
Clinical assessment and management of infection in Critical Care patients
Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
A track record demonstrating clinical governance, audit, service development and management and IT skills.
Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
Communication; Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate
Accountability; Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
Interpersonal Skills; Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
Staff Management; Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff.
Ability to lead staff, balance competing demands on the diagnostic service, striving to develop an efficient and high-quality laboratory service.

Desirable

MD or PhD
Infection Prevention and Control qualification (e.g. DipHIC or MSc)
FRCPath or equivalent
Expert knowledge and experience in management of infection in the non-HIV immunocompromised host, eg. Transplant or cancer patients
Expert knowledge and experience in the diagnosis and management of infections in renal patient populations
Expert knowledge and experience in orthopaedic and/or diabetic foot infections
Expert knowledge and experience in OPAT
Leading or managing a diagnostic laboratory