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Consultant Microbiologist | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8YE |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7192848/287-LCL-33-25 |
Summary
Interviews for this post will be held in early September
This is a replacement post due to retirement within the Clinical Microbiology team.
We are a group of 13 consultants working across the fantastic city of Liverpool who deliver the clinical microbiology service to over 2000 inpatients, and the surrounding community services. There are many tertiary specialist units who require our expertise, including maxillofacial, bone marrow transplant, cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery.
We work closely with our Infectious Diseases colleagues and the Tropical School of Medicine is located by the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
The laboratory is housed in a new, state of the art building on site at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Working alongside the laboratory is an integral part of this role
We want to work with dynamic, forward-thinking individuals who can deliver a clinically facing microbiology role. They will need to be able to work and engage with the laboratory and clinical team within the department and across the Trusts that we cover.
To work with colleagues to provide a clinical infection service including consultation service, to sites served by Liverpool Clinical Laboratories.
Clinical responsibilities will predominantly be providing a clinical infection consultation service on Aintree and Royal sites. The Consultation Service is a multidisciplinary team comprising of Microbiologists, Infectious Diseases Physicians, Infection Trainees, Antibiotic Pharmacists, Scientist Training Programme Trainees, OPAT Nurses, Sepsis Nurses and IV Access Nurses. The main duties include:
• Attendance at twice weekly virtual ward rounds and MDTs
• Ward based reviews of complex infection cases (via referral system)
• ITU and HDU Ward Rounds
• Contribution to the OPAT service (ward reviews, follow up, virtual ward rounds)
• Supervision and training for infection trainees
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.
The following is a summary of the requirements of the job, however please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details:
• Give clinical advice to staff across the Liverpool health economy face to face and via telephone
• Lead the clinical consults service including ITU ward rounds
• Engage in ward rounds and specialty MDTs
• Work with the OPAT team at Aintree Hospital
• Assist in the delivery of the AMS strategy for the Trusts
• Engagement and liaison with the microbiology laboratory to ensure high quality work is being carried out and is compliant with UKAS accreditations
• Support the IPC teams on all sites
• Supervision and education for medical trainees and STPs
• Take part in the on call service, which currently stands at 1:13
• There are opportunities to deliver on site clinical microbiology to other Trusts in the city.
• Work with the Infectious Diseases team based at The Royal Liverpool Hospital
• Work with the operational team to drive service and quality improvement projects
This advert closes on Monday 25 Aug 2025