Consultant in Infection | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 April 2026 |
| Location: | London, EC1A 7BE |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7862984/259-MED7862984SBHWXUH |
Summary
Consultant in Infection
(SBH & WXUH)
(10 PAs)
Applications are invited for a new substantive consultant post within the Department of Infection at Barts Health NHS Trust. This post has been created as part of the rightsizing of the Department. This post is based primarily at St Bartholomew’s (SBH) and Whipps Cross University (WXUH) hospitals on a rotational basis, although the successful applicant may rotate to other Trust sites. This post provides excellent opportunities to work in an academic tertiary referral centre and a busy district hospital in the East End of London. This post is suitable for consultants accredited in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing department of Microbiologists, Virologists and Infectious diseases physicians, as well as working in a Trust with an on-site diagnostic laboratory. The laboratory is part of the new East and South East London (ESEL) NHS Pathology Partnership that came into existence on 1st May 2021. It is an NHS pathology partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust pathology services, being hosted on site by Barts Health.
The successful candidate will work alongside colleagues to deliver an infection service for in and out-patients and the local communities and play an active role in the general workload of the department including on calls and overseeing the resident doctors.
At SBH, the appointee will provide a consultant service for the Heart and Cancer Centre, the Cancer Centre, the ITUs and Respiratory medicine, as well as the OPAT service alongside consultant colleagues.
At WXUH a broad infection service covering the hospital site will be delivered along with consultant colleagues. There is opportunity to participate in the OPAT and outpatient ID activity. There may also be possibility to participate in the inpatient infectious diseases activity of the department.
The post holder will work as part of an integrated Department of Infection, joining 19 permanent and 5 secondment/honorary consultant colleagues across the Trust. It is expected the appointee will participate fully in delivery of diagnostic, clinical, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control services to patients, staff and local general practitioners and deliver departmental teaching activity, including training of clinical scientists and specialist registrars in Medical Virology, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Applicants are expected to have FRCPath in Medical Microbiology, or show evidence of equivalent.
.
This posts workload roughly equates to a job plan of 8 DCC and 2 SPA
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
To support the current consultants in the provision of a timely, comprehensive and
efficient clinical and diagnostic infection service at each site
• To perform duties expected of a microbiology consultant with regards delivery and advice
on urgent and important results
• To support ward rounds and MDTs, delivery of OPAT and other outpatient activity
• To provide a clinical microbiology service to the specialties at SBH alongside consultant
colleagues
• To provide a comprehensive consultant infection service to WXH
• Contribute to authorization of results, laboratory liaison, public health liaison and reactive
microbiology service for the site
• To provide trust-wide infection control responsibilities alongside infection control leads
• Provision of antimicrobial stewardship alongside pharmacy colleagues
• Provision of clinical supervision to specialty and clinical scientist trainees
• There may be possibility to participate in both the inpatient and outpatient infectious
diseases activity.
• It is expected the successful candidate will participate in the joint responsibility for cover
for leave of consultant colleagues
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026
(SBH & WXUH)
(10 PAs)
Applications are invited for a new substantive consultant post within the Department of Infection at Barts Health NHS Trust. This post has been created as part of the rightsizing of the Department. This post is based primarily at St Bartholomew’s (SBH) and Whipps Cross University (WXUH) hospitals on a rotational basis, although the successful applicant may rotate to other Trust sites. This post provides excellent opportunities to work in an academic tertiary referral centre and a busy district hospital in the East End of London. This post is suitable for consultants accredited in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a growing department of Microbiologists, Virologists and Infectious diseases physicians, as well as working in a Trust with an on-site diagnostic laboratory. The laboratory is part of the new East and South East London (ESEL) NHS Pathology Partnership that came into existence on 1st May 2021. It is an NHS pathology partnership between Barts Health NHS Trust, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust pathology services, being hosted on site by Barts Health.
The successful candidate will work alongside colleagues to deliver an infection service for in and out-patients and the local communities and play an active role in the general workload of the department including on calls and overseeing the resident doctors.
At SBH, the appointee will provide a consultant service for the Heart and Cancer Centre, the Cancer Centre, the ITUs and Respiratory medicine, as well as the OPAT service alongside consultant colleagues.
At WXUH a broad infection service covering the hospital site will be delivered along with consultant colleagues. There is opportunity to participate in the OPAT and outpatient ID activity. There may also be possibility to participate in the inpatient infectious diseases activity of the department.
The post holder will work as part of an integrated Department of Infection, joining 19 permanent and 5 secondment/honorary consultant colleagues across the Trust. It is expected the appointee will participate fully in delivery of diagnostic, clinical, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control services to patients, staff and local general practitioners and deliver departmental teaching activity, including training of clinical scientists and specialist registrars in Medical Virology, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Applicants are expected to have FRCPath in Medical Microbiology, or show evidence of equivalent.
.
This posts workload roughly equates to a job plan of 8 DCC and 2 SPA
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
To support the current consultants in the provision of a timely, comprehensive and
efficient clinical and diagnostic infection service at each site
• To perform duties expected of a microbiology consultant with regards delivery and advice
on urgent and important results
• To support ward rounds and MDTs, delivery of OPAT and other outpatient activity
• To provide a clinical microbiology service to the specialties at SBH alongside consultant
colleagues
• To provide a comprehensive consultant infection service to WXH
• Contribute to authorization of results, laboratory liaison, public health liaison and reactive
microbiology service for the site
• To provide trust-wide infection control responsibilities alongside infection control leads
• Provision of antimicrobial stewardship alongside pharmacy colleagues
• Provision of clinical supervision to specialty and clinical scientist trainees
• There may be possibility to participate in both the inpatient and outpatient infectious
diseases activity.
• It is expected the successful candidate will participate in the joint responsibility for cover
for leave of consultant colleagues
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026