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

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Camden Town seeks a dedicated infection consultant to provide support across multiple hospital sites. The role involves clinical consultations, infection management, and collaboration with laboratory services. Candidates must have a CCT in Microbiology or Virology and be committed to high standards of infection prevention and control. This position includes participation in training and stewardship initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in infection consultation and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Ability to manage outbreaks and develop clinical guidelines.
• Participation in antimicrobial stewardship and training.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ward-based infection consults and telephone advice.
• Support induction and training of junior residents.
• Manage key performance indicators related to infection control.

Education

CCT in Microbiology or Virology

Job description

Overview

The post holder will provide infection support for the Guy's Hospital site, as 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 regional Thoracic surgical, Head and Neck, ENT and Urology groups.

Responsibilities

• Ward-based infection consults/telephone advice, multidisciplinary clinical meetings and ward rounds, ID outpatient clinics and a potential new OPAT service for RBHH sites.
• Support to the Infection Sciences laboratory services if CCT in Microbiology or Virology.
• Support induction and training of StRs rotating in via postgraduate teaching and training.
• Develop local clinical guidelines, manage outbreaks, and deliver key performance with a focus on leading antimicrobial stewardship (bacterial and fungal).
• All consultants will have PA allocation for specific responsibilities (e.g. antimicrobial stewardship, IPC, OPAT).
• Participate in the non-resident on-call rota.

Post structure and rotations

Each post-holder will have a rotational post across at least two of the RB&H and Guy\'s sites. Guy\'s Hospital is a major elective centre offering specialised services; it has 400 beds and hosts the largest dental hospital in Europe. Harefield Hospital is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery and an international centre for adult heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation, with 168 beds, 5 operating theatres and 4 catheter laboratories. The Royal Brompton is a specialist cardiothoracic centre with services in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, radiology, and thoracic medicine, including a large adult and paediatric respiratory infection cohort and a regional ECMO unit.

The DoI comprises about 115 clinical and administrative staff from the Dept. of Infectious Diseases (including the Virology & Microbiology laboratories run in partnership with Synnovis UK and Ireland) and the Dept. of Infection Prevention & Control. DoI leadership includes Dr Nicholas Price (Clinical Director and joint-Director of IPC), Ms Avey Bhatia (Chief Nurse, Executive IPC responsibility), Dr Bill Newsholme (Infectious Diseases & IPC) and Dr Simon Goldenberg (Laboratories). Approximately 60 IPC staff are led by the joint-DIPC, Dr Jon Otter, plus a dedicated ID pharmacy team. Every DoI consultant works in partnership with IPC colleagues and is allocated specific responsibilities in job planning (e.g., antimicrobial resistance/stewardship, C. difficile and bacteraemia investigation, surgical site infection, intravenous line care). ID consultant leadership emphasizes driving higher standards of IPC quality across the service. The Dept. of IPC comprises Acute Trust and Community nurses, an Intravascular Device team, a Surgical Site Infection Surveillance and Innovation Unit (SIU) team and a Decontamination/Environmental IPC team. IPC matrons work in close partnership with a dedicated Infection consultant in the area.