Locum Consultant in Infection (NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant) - Microbiology - Lancash[...]

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a full-time Locum Consultant in Infection for a 12-month fixed term role. The successful candidate will join an evolving Infection Service, participate in patient management, and engage in teaching within a multidisciplinary team. Ideal for a physician with strong expertise in managing infections, this role offers a dynamic work environment and collaboration with clinical teams.

Benefits

Access to NHS Application Help Video

Job Satisfaction

Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification and Full GMC registration required.
• Experience in Infection Management is crucial.
• Experience in teaching and clinical supervision of trainees is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide input for infection management and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Participate in ward rounds and manage patients on the OPAT service.
• Assume a continuous commitment for patient care.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Communication Skills

Infection Management

Teaching Skills

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC registration

Certificate of Completion of Training in microbiology

Job description

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Main area Microbiology Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Full Time) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Out of hours on-call plus 1.25 APA's) Job ref 438-MS3119

Site Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Preston Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/07/2025 23:59

Job overview

This post is for a full-time Locum Consultant in Infection for 12 months, to work within an evolving Infection Service based in the Department of Pathology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTHTR).

The Consultants offer a 24-hour advisory service to clinicians and other clients of the service. The size and nature of the Trust inevitably means that this is a busy and demanding role, involving response to numerous telephone requests for advice, ward rounds, multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and clinical liaison, both ward-and telephone-based.

Participation in the joint ward round with the Antimicrobial Pharmacist and rounds on other specialist unit’s e.g. critical care, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Nephrology, will be agreed among the consultants according to personal interest & may rotate between the consultants with mutual agreement. Currently some of the ward rounds and MDTs are taking place through Microsoft Teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Provide input where required to infection management of patients and contribute to Microbiology Multidisciplinary team meetings.

Participation in the joint ward round with the Antimicrobial Pharmacist and rounds on other specialist unit’s e.g. critical care, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Surgery, will be agreed among the consultants according to personal interest & may rotate between the consultants with mutual agreement. Currently some of the ward rounds and MDTs are taking place through Microsoft Teams.

Be involved in the management of patients on the OPAT service.

Be involved in the Undergraduate Teaching of medical students.

Be involved in the clinical supervision of Higher Specialist Scientific Training.

Participate in the Infection Service Consultant on-call rota (one in 6) for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Assume a continuous commitment for care of patients, even if employed less than full-time and ensure that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off duty periods.

Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional development.

Develop links with General Practitioners operating in the area.

Working for our organisation

The Microbiology Laboratory at Royal Preston Hospital was built in 1989 is situated in the Department of Pathology at Royal Preston Hospital. It is accredited for its clinical work by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (Excluding Andrology).

Equipment includes BactAlert Blood Culture System, Vitek 2 organism identification and antibiotic sensitivity testing system, Maldi-Tof mass spectrometer for organism identification and UF5000i urine analysers in bacteriology.

In virology, a range of molecular testing is undertaken using three Roche cobas 4800 automated extraction platforms, the Hologic Panther and Cepheid GeneXpert. Automated serological analysis is performed with the Roche Cobas e601 analyser for high volume screening supported by Diasorin Liaison XL for other investigations.

The Department is accredited for the training of BMS staff and is approved for the training of medically qualified Microbiologists.

Specialist Trainees of appropriate experience participate in the rota at a level compliant with European Working Time Directive and are always supervised by a named consultant. Currently this means that on occasions, the consultant will be second on-call, supporting the Specialist Trainee who is first on-call.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

• What we can offer

• The Team

Person specification

Qualifications

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
• Full GMC registration
• Other relevant higher degrees
• Applicants that are UK trained must be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), in microbiology or joint CCT in infectious diseases and microbiology or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.

Experience and Skills

• Trained Clinical Supervisor
• Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in the management of Infection and laboratory liaison.
• Trained Educational Supervisor
• Experience of Infection Prevention, Antibiotic Review Service and Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy.
• Experience in other medical specialities.

Management

• Evidence of Clinical Leadership
• Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development
• Attendance at recognised management course.

Research and Development

• Evidence of interest in personal development e.g. through research and/or publications

Health

• Meets professional health requirements in line with GMC Standards/ Good Medical Practice

Personal

• Evidence of effective communication skills
• Good organisation skills (with examples)
• Works well within a multidisciplinary environment
• Resident within 30 minutes travel time to Preston / Chorley.
• Car owner / Driver

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Name Dr Suganya Reddy Job title Consultant Microbiologist - HOD Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01772 522104 Additional information Dr David Orr - Consultant Microbiologist & Clinical Director of Pathology Services on Telephone number: 01772-522104

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