Consultant in Infection inGloucester inGloucester PUBLISHED
THU 24 OCT 2024
As the OPAT Lead, the consultant will provide strategic leadership for enhancing outpatient infection services across Gloucestershire. This includes optimizing outpatient pathways, engaging with acute medicine services, and fostering collaboration with other healthcare trusts. The role aims to improve patient access to outpatient services, reduce reliance on acute care facilities, and promote cost-effective care delivery. Additional functions may involve direct patient reviews in clinic settings and regular engagement with OPAT referrals and MDTs.
This new Consultant in Infection post will be based mainly at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital although some clinical microbiology commitments will also take place at Cheltenham General Hospital and some community sites.
This is a full time post for a Consultant in Infection covering general clinical infection and microbiology responsibilities with a specific role to develop and lead the Trust out patient infection management.
Work closely with microbiology, pathology and colleagues in healthcare to ensure provision of a comprehensive clinical medical microbiology service including advice and policy development regarding pre-examination, examination and post-examination phases. This work will include clinical rounds including visits to wards and specialist units such as the Departments of Critical Care, clinical interpretation / authorisation of reports and MDT attendance.
Meetings with pharmacy colleagues take place as part of antimicrobial stewardship within the Trust.
OPAT Lead:
The post holder will be OPAT Lead providing strategic leadership and oversight for the ongoing development and expansion of out-patient Infection services across Gloucestershire. This will include diversification to provide better options for managing patients' infections in an out-patient setting by development of OPAT / CoPAT pathways, close liaison with our Acute Medicine services through Same Day Emergency Clinic (SDEC) settings, virtual ward pathways and improved cross county working with GHC Trust and ICB. Our aim is to enable a higher proportion of our population to have access to these services enabling pressure release on the Acute Trust, bed day savings, patient flow improvements and financial savings.
They will work alongside existing CMMs, Consultant AMS pharmacist and OPAT nurses and will engage with OPAT referrals and weekly MDTs. This will likely include clinic based direct review of some patients.
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