Consultant in Infectious Diseases &/or Medical Micro/Viro/GIM

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

London

Salary

£109,725 – £145,478

Posted

6 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, Renal Transplant and Urology services, a well-established OPAT team, a proposed centre of excellence for complex elective orthopaedic/spinal services and the regional Thoracic surgical, Head and Neck and ENT and Urology groups.

Individual consultants will develop their own areas of specialist expertise over time, all will deliver:

Ward-based infection consults/telephone advice, support for guideline development and quality improvement initiatives, multi-disciplinary clinical meetings and ward rounds, ID outpatient clinics, OPAT services and SpR supervision.

If CCT in Microbiology or Virology, support to the Infection Sciences laboratory services.

Develop local clinical IPC guidelines, manage outbreaks, and deliver key performance with a particular focus on leading antimicrobial stewardship (bacterial and fungal).

All consultants will have PA allocation for specific responsibilities e.g. antimicrobial stewardship, IPC, OPAT.

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
Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
On GMC Specialist Register for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases OR General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases
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
Running an Infectious Diseases out-patient clinic or OPAT service.
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
Evidence of leading service development and participation in quality improvement projects for clinical and/or laboratory services
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

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
Introduction of new laboratory tests into the diagnostic repertoire