Job summary
- Main area
- Infectious Diseases
- Grade
- ST1-2
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-TD-24-155
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ward 19 Infectious Diseases - RVI
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £43,923 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Trust Fellow in Infection And Tropical Medicine
ST1-2
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for three highly motivated and ambitious individuals to join our team. The successful applicants will have already completed Foundation Training or equivalent and hold a full GMC license. Familiarity with the NHS and a demonstrable existing interest in Infectious Diseases are both desirable but not essential.
The post holders should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to work efficiently and with a degree of independence in a complex multidisciplinary clinical environment. The Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine at the RVI hosts a High Level Isolation Unit (HLIU) that is part of the national High Consequence Infectious Diseases Network of facilities. The post holder will be expected to engage with training in relation to HLIU personal protective equipment (PPE) along with delivery of standardised clinical and infection control procedures.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
The scope of clinical work that the post holder will be called on to contribute will include:
· Clinical management of in-patients under the care of the ITM team. This may variously include patients admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary on Ward 19 (main infection ward, with negative pressure isolation facilities), HLIU, Ward 5 (patients with a mix of general medical and infection-related problems, generally of lower acuity and/or complexity), general medical patients boarded to other wards, and joint care of patients under other specialist teams who have been referred to ITM.
· Contribution to ITM outpatient clinics, including individual consultants’ general infection clinics along with specialist clinics in Tb, HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Chronic Fatigue and post-COVID syndromes.
· Out-of-hours. Any post holder may have the opportunity to gain specialty on-call experience by contributing to the ITM out-of-hours rota. This would be receive a level of consultant support appropriate to the individual’s level of experience, and could be negotiated separately to the core contract (i.e. would not be mandatory).
Working for our organisation
Closing Date: Wednesday 3 July 2024 at midnight
Interview Date: 11 July 2024
For an informal discussion and further information regarding this opportunity, please contact the Head of Department, Dr Ewan Hunter, on 0191 213 9813, or via email at: [email protected]
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work within the Infection and Tropical Medicine (ITM) MDT to provide good clinical care to patients presenting or being referred to the Trust for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic infections and/or other general medical problems.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration.
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- NHS work experience.
- Good history & examination skills.
Maintaining clinical competence
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date, e.g. workplace-based assessments.
Teaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students and junior peers.
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit and or QI projects.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Cowan
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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