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Fixed Term/Secondment cover for maternity leave to April 2025

An exciting opportunity for a Specialty Doctor in Infection to join the Northern Care Alliance (NCA) Infection Sciences team and provide support for Infection services based at Royal Oldham Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital. The post-holder may also be required to cover Infection duties at other locations within the network. 

The current on-call rota is 1 in 5 (subject to job planning) covering the localities of Oldham, Rochdale, and Bury (BRO) and Care Organisations. The NCA has Infection Science laboratories currently based at Salford and Oldham to provide medical microbiology and virology services to areas covered by NCA Infection Sciences. 

 As a versatile and enthusiastic Speciality Doctor, you must have MBBS or equivalent medical qualification and be eligible to live and work in the UK. You shall have full GMC registration and license to practise and higher qualifications such as MRCP, MD and FRCPath 1 would be desirable. 

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others in clinical and management roles. You will be able to work independently and be able to demonstrate leadership where appropriate. Candidate should have a demonstrable understanding of the principles and importance of audit and research. In return, you will benefit from working in a high performing organisation where you will be able to enhance your knowledge, skills and experience.

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The main purpose of the job is to provide and support a clinical infection service to the NCA.  This includes the requirement to advise on diagnosis and management of infection, to liaise with laboratory staff to assist with the reporting of organisms of medical importance and interpretation, validation and verification of results.  Infection Control will be an integral part of the job including      close working with the infection, prevention and control nursing team. You will be working closely with Anti-microbial Pharmacists and contribute to the anti-microbial stewardship programme.

Other duties include telephone consultations with clinical staff, ward visits and rounds including Critical Care, Contribution to Antibiotic Stewardship including antibiotic ward rounds, liaison with laboratory staff and support of infection control services including Root Cause Analysis of infections such as C.difficile and MRSA.

An initial and then annual review of duties will take place with the Clinical Lead for Microbiology as part of the job planning process.   The precise arrangements will depend on the needs of the service, the interests of the individual and agreement with colleagues: flexibility is expected.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/