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Job summary

Main area
Microbiology
Grade
YM72
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
220-025-AAC-CSS
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/02/2025 23:59

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Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology

YM72

Covid-19 Vaccination 

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support  staff to get  COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. 

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

Applications are invited for the position of a full-time (10 PA) Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Whittington Health NHS Trust. This is a replacement post for a retiring colleague, supporting our team of two existing consultants.

Key Details:

  • Clinical Duties: 7.75 PA direct clinical duties
  • Supporting Duties: 2.25 SPA (including teaching, Quality Improvement, and supervision)
  • Location: Whittington Hospital, North London
  • Specialisation: Microbiology/Infectious Diseases
  • Requirements: Accredited in Micro/ID, GMC Specialist Register (or within 6 months), enthusiastic and effective teacher, and team player
  • Flexible Options: LTFT applications welcome

About the Department: Our Infection Clinical Services are in modern facilities at the Whittington Hospital. We provide a multidisciplinary OPAT service and lead the South Hub of the NCL TB network. With full accreditation by UKAS and a dedicated support team, you'll have access to your own office and 0.6 WTE administrative assistance.

Apply Now to become a valued member of our dynamic team!

Interview date: 05 March 2025


Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties of the Post

Shared Laboratory Duties

  • Day-to-day supervision of authorisation and interpretation of the results obtained.
  • Liaison with HSL (our pathology providers) to continuously improve services
  • Provision of an on-call service in Microbiology (Consultant on-call, second on with a first on ST doctor 1 week in 3.
  • The appointee will be required to work 1 in 5 Saturdays (this duty is shared between the medical staff including registrars). This is allocated in PA but also time is given back in lieu. (4 hours prior to a weekend)

Clinical

The post holder will be expected to share clinical duties with the other Infection medical staff, including:

·       Liaison with clinicians, hospital and community staff and GPs concerning the diagnosis and management of patients.

·       Daily ward rounds of referred and follow-up cases, or patients in whom laboratory or clinical information is considered to require Infection, or control of infection, assistance or intervention.

·       A daily round (Monday -Saturday) of all adult ITU patients with ITU medical staff.

·       Liaison with OPAT team and reviewing patients when required.

·       Liaison with TB team and reviewing patients when required.

·       Attendance at relevant MDTs when requested e.g. paediatrics, diabetic foot, endocarditis, LUTS

·       Sharing a lead role in antimicrobial stewardship including AMS ward rounds and co-chairing of an AMS committee each quarter with the Consultant pharmacist for AMS.

Infection Prevention & Control

  • Regular liaison with our IPCT team.
  • Advising on Trust policies for antimicrobial use and infection prevention & control.
  • Co-operating with the HPU in the investigation and prevention of communicable diseases.
  • Leading and assisting with outbreaks/post infection reviews (PIR) as required.
  • Attending Infection Prevention & Control Committee meetings bi-monthly.

Teaching and Training

·       Supervision and training of junior medical staff in Microbiology/Infectious diseases.  The post holder will assist in educational/clinical supervision, appraisal and other assessments of two ST’s in Microbiology/ID on rotation to Whittington Health.

·       Assist/lead on the delivery of undergraduate Y4 UCL medical student teaching to include bedside teaching, case-based discussion sessions and infection services including assessment and evaluation of education.

·       The appointee will also be expected to play a role in educating postgraduate doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in all specialities and to assist in the induction of all medical staff.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 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
  • Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.

Special interest

Desirable criteria
  • OPAT
  • TB

Teaching and supervision

Essential criteria
  • Can demonstrate an interest in teaching and improving the processes involved in knowledge acquisition
Desirable criteria
  • Educational supervision accreditation

Research

Desirable criteria
  • An understanding of the scientific method as applied to healthcare research and a willingness to engage in the processes of recruitment and good clinical practice as applied to research

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Ana Garcia Mingo
Job title
Consultant in ID and Microbiology
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Dr Julie Andrews, Consultant in Medical Microbiology and Virology [email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Telephone
020 7288 5286
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