Locum Consultant in Infectious Diseases and/or Medical Micro/Viro/GIM
| Posting date: | 02 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9196-25-0992 |
Summary
The post holder will provide the infection support for the Guys hospital site, though the post is part of a rotation that supports routine clinical infection work at Guys, the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. The clinical Infection sub-specialties at Guys include: o Infections in patients with cancer. Guys Hospital is the SE sector regional hub for Cancer including medical, clinical and surgical oncology (the new Cancer Centre opened in 2016) and has a large malignant and non-malignant haematology service. o Infections in Renal Transplant and Urology services. Guys has an active kidney and pancreas transplant programme supporting the sector and is the hub for renal services and dialysis providing for a dialysis population of approx. 900 in 8 satellite units. o A proposed centre of excellence for complex elective orthopaedic and spinal services is under development having been commissioned as SE sector hub for joint revision surgery. o The site also houses the regional Thoracic surgical, Head and Neck and ENT and Urology surgical groups. o There is a well-established OPAT team providing OPAT services for Guys and St Thomas patients, with expanding links into the South East London virtual ward initiative. Whilst individual consultants will develop their own areas of specialist expertise over time, all will deliver: o Ward-based infection consults and telephone advice on the diagnosis, management and prevention of infection in response to referrals and significant laboratory results. o Timetabled multi-disciplinary clinical meetings and ward rounds, e.g. Critical Care, medical and surgical board rounds, anti-microbial stewardship etc. o ID outpatient clinics in close conjunction with the sub-specialist service. o There is a potential to develop a new OPAT service for RBHH sites. If CCT in Microbiology or Virology there would be an expectation to support the Infection Sciences laboratory services alongside the other site microbiologists and virologists. Laboratory duties will include result authorisation, contribution to the day-to-day running of the diagnostic service, troubleshooting of unexpected results and active participation in laboratory management and development. Alongside existing RBHH and GSTT, and KCH and PRUH, consultant colleagues they will also support the transfer of work to the new large, multi-hospital offsite laboratory hub in 2024. The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the induction and training of the StRs rotating to Microbiology/Infectious Diseases/Virology, to take an active part in postgraduate teaching and training and participate in KCL Medical School undergraduate teaching in years 2 and 3. Work closely with clinical teams, pharmacists and the IPC nursing team to develop local clinical guidelines, manage outbreaks, and deliver key performance objectives (e.g. C. difficile, blood stream infections etc.) and staff education/training. There will be a particular focus on leading antimicrobial stewardship (bacterial and fungal). All consultants will have PA allocation for specific responsibilities e.g. antimicrobial stewardship, IPC, OPAT. The post-holder will participate in the non-resident on-call rota which will be shared equally with the other consultants in the Microbiology section. Weekend authorisation is performed by the on-call Infection consultant, this can be done remotely and no weekend on-site presence is generally required.