An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive 10 PA Consultant Medical Microbiologist due to retirement of a colleague to startJanuary 2025to join a team of dynamic Consultants at UCLH.
This post is extremely varied and will give the post-holder an opportunity to gain experience in a wide variety of infection liaison activities.
The main activities are:
• A leading role in overseeing the clinical infection service to urology and thoracic surgery at the UCLH Westmoreland Street Hospital. This includes aspects of diagnosis and management of infection, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control.
o Leading microbiology role in the recurrent urinary tract infection MDT
• Supporting the microbiology liaison to the Haematology service through:
o Daily multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting with Grafton Way intensive care unit (mainly haematology patients)
o Contribution to weekly national MDT for HLH (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis)
• Contributing to the Consultant general clinical microbiology service through leading on the daily bacteraemia / complex case meeting
• Contribute to the Trust’s infection control and antimicrobial stewardship activities through:
o Sharing in leading on Clostridiodes difficile ward rounds
o Contributing to antimicrobial stewardship data mapping within the infection division to develop future interventions
The job plan is expected to comprise 10 PAs per week on average including the on-call commitment (8.0 PAs Direct Clinical Care and up to 2.0 PAs Supporting Professional Activities).
The appointee will be lead on laboratory liaison, microbiological and infection control advice and antimicrobial stewardship for Urology and Thoracic Surgery. The post also supports the monthly recurrent urinary tract infection MDT.
Microbiology support to Haematology in this post involves a daily MDT for the Grafton Way intensive care unit (mainly haematology patients) and attendance at the national 2 weekly MDT for HLH (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis). There is likely to be an opportunity to widen the activity in this post for Haematology later in the year.
Contribution to the Trust’s infection control and antimicrobial stewardship activities will be through sharing in leading on Clostridiodes difficile ward rounds and contributing to antimicrobial stewardship data mapping within the infection division to develop future interventions.
To help support this work, the post holder will contribute to key laboratory governance activities including attendance at laboratory working groups, for example the urine bench.
The appointee will be required to participate in the consultant on-call rota (Category B) for weekdays and weekends. There is a rota for specialty registrars who are first on call. The frequency of the Consultant rota for this post is 1 in 9 and is considered low frequency.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Clinical Microbiology is within the Infection Division which is one of six Divisions within the Medicine Board led by Charles House. The Infection Division comprises the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, infectious diseases inpatient and outpatient activity including the OPAT clinic, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Virology, Parasitology, Infection Prevention & Control, Find & Treat and NathNac. The Division works closely with the Pathology Division.
Within the Divisions of Infection each discipline has a Clinical Lead. The post holder will be accountable to Mike Brown, Divisional Clinical Director of Infection, via the Clinical Lead for Microbiology, Trupti Patel.
Within Microbiology there are 11 Consultants, many of whom are less than full time and also have other activities such as research. We are a very supportive team and aim to provide the best care for patients at UCLH through our activities.
UCLH Microbiology is a training centre with 4-5 microbiology trainees at any one time and a comprehensive training programme. The appointee would be expected to participate in the supervision, training and mentoring of junior medical staff.
As a department, we participate in a range of teaching activities including undergraduates, specialty trainees, trainees from other specialties, laboratory staff, infection control staff and trainee clinical scientist staff.
Come and bea part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second yearrunning!University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
This advert closes on Wednesday 21 Aug 2024
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