Consultant Microbiologist

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool seeks a Consultant Microbiologist to join their dynamic team. This role involves providing critical infection service consultations, collaborating across disciplines, and leading clinical training. Applicants should possess GMC registration and relevant experience in microbiology and infectious diseases.

Qualifications

• Clinically accredited specialist with GMC registration.
• Experience leading a clinical team in a teaching hospital.
• Ability to manage complex clinical problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical advice to staff and lead the clinical consult service.
• Engage in ward rounds and MDTs.
• Supervise medical trainees and contribute to teaching.

Skills

Leadership skills

Administrative skills

Communication skills

Teaching skills

Education

Full and Specialist registration with the GMC

CCT in Medical Microbiology or Infectious Diseases

MBBS/MBChB

Doctorate (PhD) or equivalent

Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologist

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Microbiologist

The closing date is 25 August 2025

Interviews for this post will be held in early September

This is a replacement post due to retirement within the Clinical Microbiology team.

We are a group of 13 consultants working across the fantastic city of Liverpool who deliver the clinical microbiology service to over 2000 inpatients, and the surrounding community services. There are many tertiary specialist units who require our expertise, including maxillofacial, bone marrow transplant, cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery.

We work closely with our Infectious Diseases colleagues and the Tropical School of Medicine is located by the Royal Liverpool Hospital.

The laboratory is housed in a new, state of the art building on site at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Working alongside the laboratory is an integral part of this role

We want to work with dynamic, forward-thinking individuals who can deliver a clinically facing microbiology role. They will need to be able to work and engage with the laboratory and clinical team within the department and across the Trusts that we cover.

Main duties of the job

To work with colleagues to provide a clinical infection service including consultation service, to sites served by Liverpool Clinical Laboratories.

Clinical responsibilities will predominantly be providing a clinical infection consultation service on Aintree and Royal sites. The Consultation Service is a multidisciplinary team comprising of Microbiologists, Infectious Diseases Physicians, Infection Trainees, Antibiotic Pharmacists, Scientist Training Programme Trainees, OPAT Nurses, Sepsis Nurses and IV Access Nurses. The main duties include:

• Attendance at twice weekly virtual ward rounds and MDTs
• Ward based reviews of complex infection cases (via referral system)
• ITU and HDU Ward Rounds
• Contribution to the OPAT service (ward reviews, follow up, virtual ward rounds)
• Supervision and training for infection trainees

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

The following is a summary of the requirements of the job, however please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details:

• Give clinical advice to staff across the Liverpool health economy face to face and via telephone
• Lead the clinical consults service including ITU ward rounds
• Engage in ward rounds and specialty MDTs
• Work with the OPAT team at Aintree Hospital
• Assist in the delivery of the AMS strategy for the Trusts
• Engagement and liaison with the microbiology laboratory to ensure high quality work is being carried out and is compliant with UKAS accreditations
• Support the IPC teams on all sites
• Supervision and education for medical trainees and STPs
• Take part in the on call service, which currently stands at 1:13
• There are opportunities to deliver on site clinical microbiology to other Trusts in the city.
• Work with the Infectious Diseases team based at The Royal Liverpool Hospital
• Work with the operational team to drive service and quality improvement projects

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

• Good leadership skills.
• Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of consultant in a teaching hospital
• Effective administrative and time management skills
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English) suitable for patients, relatives and health care professionals
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Peer reviewed publications Research grants

Experience

• Experience of inpatient and outpatient management of infection and ward based infection consultations
• Experience of laboratory microbiology
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
• Effective teaching skills suitable for undergraduate & postgraduate teaching, supervision & appraisa
• Experience in supporting a microbiology laboratory service
• Experience of overseeing laboratory quality assurance / quality improvement
• Teacher training
• Prior supervisory experience/training

Qualifications

• 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.
• CCT in either Medical Microbiology OR Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview)
• 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. Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
• GMC Register
• MBBS/MBChB
• State Registration as Clinical Scientist (HCPC)
• BSc (Hons) degree or assessed equivalent knowledge/ expertise
• Doctorate (PhD) or equivalent
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologist by examination (FRCPath) (or equivalent), as required for Medical Consultant posts within Pathology
• FRCPath or equivalent
• Higher Medical Degree PhD/MD
• Other subspecialty interest

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust