Consultant Microbiology

I'm currently working with a trust based in the North East looking for a Consultant Microbiologist to join their team on a NHS fixed term contract. 

You will join a team of 4 Consultants and 1 Specialist trainee, the department forms an integral part of Clinical Pathology Services. Staff are enthusiastic, friendly, and motivated and work effectively as a team.  About 40% of the workload is from GPs and the community, with whom there are exceptional links. The department is committed to keeping turnaround times for all specimens to a minimum to the benefit of users and attaining a level of medical and technical staff, to process and authorise reports with suitable clinical input to ensure a consistent delivery on a seven-day basis. 

The Microbiology laboratory is part of a large open plan laboratory shared with Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Biochemistry and Cellular Pathology.  The new laboratory has benefitted from substantive investment from the trust and enjoys modern accommodation that has been designed to take full advantage of state-of-the-art equipment. 

This post is part of the newly formed ‘Infection Team’. The infection team’s aim is to optimise the prevention, diagnosis, and management of infections in the Trust. The ultimate intention being to reduce the number of healthcare associated infections seen and their impact and to optimise the management of infections helping to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital and facilitate earlier discharge and better outpatient management of infections.

Key benefits and objectives of the infection team include:

• Enhancing dedicated IPC Consultant provision - for the first time having a trust employed Infection Consultant on duty at the trust every day of the year
•  Establishing a daily complicated infection ward round, guaranteeing a specialist review for all patients prescribed an IV antibiotic for more than 7 days
•  Build on our successful specialist training by enhancing our provision to HSST and medical trainees
•  Look to establish an innovative out-patient antibiotic service
•  Provide enhanced and increased proactive Consultant input into SDEC and EAU to assist with the management of infections
• A renewed focus on building on the successes of pathology service looking to expand the clinical teaching and research activities of the microbiology department.

Candidates intrested in this role must meet this criteria:
Full GMC Registration 
NHS experience