Locum Consultant in Infection
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, RG1 5AN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9193-25-0745 |
Summary
1. To provide a 24/7 advisory clinical infection service including: advice regarding appropriate specimens, validation and interpretation of results for transmission to ward, clinical supervision of resident doctors and involvement in the management of individual patients through full clinical liaison to support patient management. 2. The clinical advisory service involves infection consults from hospital clinicians, GPs and Virtual Hospital Service clinical teams, ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings including 1 in 3 rota for OOH cover (including weekends and Bank Holidays). 3. To participate in the daily AMU Infection Round and ICU ward during the on-call week on 1:3 basis. 4. Participation in the specialists MDTs such as Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Nephrology, Haematology, TB and HIV etc. will be agreed among the consultants according to personal interest and may rotate between the consultants with mutual agreement. Currently these ward rounds and MDTs are taking place through Microsoft Teams. 5. To participate in Business Planning, including the assessment and introduction of new infections diagnostics and forward planning for staff requirements. 6. To participate in day-to-day IPC activities for the acute NHS support and support the IPCT in all IPC issues. 7. To participate in enhancing the Trusts commitment to good AMS. 8. To participate on a rotational basis in leading roles overseeing the governance and administrative duties of the microbiology laboratory, he Trust AMS programme and the IPC service. 9. To collaborate with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and regional and national reference and epidemiological facilities in the reporting and investigation of infections, control of outbreaks, assessment of vaccines, development of laboratory methods, involvement in surveys, etc. 10. To participate in the professional training of staff in the department, both medical and non-medical and contribute as required to teaching sessions for other hospital staff including undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff, participate in annual medical staff rounds as well as education and supervision of the junior medical staff 11. Research activities subject to the availability of funding and resources. 12. Participation in medical audit and quality improvement projects. 13. Participation in a recognised scheme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).Funding and study leave is provided for agreed purposes. 14. Participation in clinical governance activities as appropriate. 15. Participation in the Trust's consultant appraisal and GMC revalidation scheme. 16. Such additional duties as may be required from time to time by the Clinical Director of Pathology after appropriate consultation.