Locum Consultant in Medical Microbiology or Infectious Diseases inBasingstoke inBasingstoke PUBLISHED 18 DEC 2023

Band Consultant: £105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro-rata  FIXED TERM 

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The appointment is for a exciting clinical position, in an active friendly Clinical Microbiology/Infection service; We are looking for a Consultant in Medical Microbiology or Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. We are looking for a 7PA consultant to support our existing 4.9 WTE consultants for a period of 3 months with a view of possible extension. The team is supported by two excellent OPAT nurses, 2 HSST trainees, 1 STP trainee, 2 LTFT SpRs (shared with Porton Down) and 2 FY2s (shared with GU medicine). This post is to cover a current vacant post and ideally would involve cross site cover of clinical duties.The department operates a two consultant duty model with one covering Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH), one covering Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (RHCH) & calls from primary care & laboratory authorisation of Primary Care/ Serology work. The laboratory scientific team are based in the Microbiology laboratory at Basingstoke Hospital. There is an essential services laboratory at RHCH which performs blood culture incubation, respiratory PCR and a number of other diagnostic tests to support rapid infection and infection control decision making.

Clinical duties include the following: -

Undertake result reporting in core hours

Respond in a timely manner to clinical and laboratory enquires (in line with RCPath KPIs)

Out of hours clinical advice on call on a 1:8 rota including weekends, week nights and bank holidays. Remote access is available to allow remote interrogation of LIMS and other Trust electronic systems (radiology, prescribing) when on call.

Ensure that important findings rapidly reach the requesting clinicians and advise regarding appropriate action

Be involved in the clinical management of patients in the hospital and community. This includes both daily ward rounds to ITU and complex infection patients as described above.

By mutual agreement candidates with an interest in participating in the OPAT service and Infection clinic may rotate to cover this service.

Supervise and support the junior doctors and trainee clinical scientist in Microbiology as appropriate to their stage of training and needs.

Liaise with the infection prevention nurses and DIPC and ensure day to day input as appropriate to operational infection prevention work including outbreak investigation and management, should this be required.

Support the leads for antibiotic usage, Infection Control and department and Pathology management as appropriate.

For further information about this role please see Job Description document attached.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The appointment is for a exciting clinical position, in an active friendly Clinical Microbiology/Infection service; We are looking for a Consultant in Medical Microbiology or Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. We are looking for a 7PA consultant to support our existing 4.9 WTE consultants for a period of 3 months with a view of possible extension. The team is supported by two excellent OPAT nurses, 2 HSST trainees, 1 STP trainee, 2 LTFT SpRs (shared with Porton Down) and 2 FY2s (shared with GU medicine). This post is to cover a current vacant post and ideally would involve cross site cover of clinical duties.The department operates a two consultant duty model with one covering Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH), one covering Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (RHCH) & calls from primary care & laboratory authorisation of Primary Care/ Serology work. The laboratory scientific team are based in the Microbiology laboratory at Basingstoke Hospital. There is an essential services laboratory at RHCH which performs blood culture incubation, respiratory PCR and a number of other diagnostic tests to support rapid infection and infection control decision making.

Clinical duties include the following: -

Undertake result reporting in core hours

Respond in a timely manner to clinical and laboratory enquires (in line with RCPath KPIs)

Out of hours clinical advice on call on a 1:8 rota including weekends, week nights and bank holidays. Remote access is available to allow remote interrogation of LIMS and other Trust electronic systems (radiology, prescribing) when on call.

Ensure that important findings rapidly reach the requesting clinicians and advise regarding appropriate action

Be involved in the clinical management of patients in the hospital and community. This includes both daily ward rounds to ITU and complex infection patients as described above.

By mutual agreement candidates with an interest in participating in the OPAT service and Infection clinic may rotate to cover this service.

Supervise and support the junior doctors and trainee clinical scientist in Microbiology as appropriate to their stage of training and needs.

Liaise with the infection prevention nurses and DIPC and ensure day to day input as appropriate to operational infection prevention work including outbreak investigation and management, should this be required.

Support the leads for antibiotic usage, Infection Control and department and Pathology management as appropriate.



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