Specialty Doctor in Infection

Royal Berkshire Nhs Foundation Trust; Reading; Sur place; GBP 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Specialty Doctor in Infection Medicine in the newly established Department of Infection Medicine. The post is a full-time role based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, working with consultants and SAS doctors to deliver a consultant-led Clinical Infection Service across the Trust.

The role involves providing timely infection expertise, reviewing cultures, managing queries, supporting antimicrobial stewardship rounds, and

Qualifications

• Provide timely specialist infection advice to primary and secondary care teams.
• Manage infection queries and ID e-referrals.
• Support antimicrobial stewardship infection rounds.
• Review blood cultures and validate laboratory reports.
• Communicate critical results and support ICU ward rounds.
• Participate in specialist infection MDT meetings and clinical governance.
• Contribute to infection prevention and control, teaching and quality improvement.

Responsabilités

• Provide timely specialist infection advice to primary and secondary care teams.
• Manage infection queries and ID e-referrals.
• Support antimicrobial stewardship infection rounds.
• Review blood cultures and validate laboratory reports.
• Communicate critical results and support ICU ward rounds.
• Participate in infection prevention and control activities and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit and teaching.

Description du poste

This is an exciting opportunity to join the newly established Department of Infection Medicine at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as a Specialty Doctor in Infection Medicine. Working alongside consultants and SAS doctors, the post holder will help deliver and share in the clinical leadership of a consultant-led Clinical Infection Service providing frontline infection expertise across the Trust. This is a full-time, 10 programmed activity post based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading., The post holder will provide timely specialist infection advice to primary and secondary care teams, manage infection queries and ID e-referrals, and support the daily antimicrobial stewardship infection round. Duties will include reviewing blood cultures, validating laboratory reports, communicating critical results, supporting ICU ward rounds and participating in specialist infection multidisciplinary team meetings. The role will also contribute to infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, teaching and the continuing development of the Clinical Infection Service.

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