Consultant in Infectious Diseases & / or Medical Micro / Viro / GIM

The post holder will provide the infection support for the Guy's hospital site, though the post is part of a rotation that supports routine clinical infection work at Guy's, the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. The clinical Infection sub-specialties at Guy's include:

• Infections in patients with cancer, Renal Transplant and Urology services, a well-established OPAT team, a proposed centre of excellence for complex elective orthopaedic/spinal services and the regional Thoracic surgical, Head and Neck and ENT and Urology groups.
Individual consultants will develop their own areas of specialist expertise over time, all will deliver:
• Ward-based infection consults/telephone advice, support for guideline development and quality improvement initiatives, multi-disciplinary clinical meetings and ward rounds, ID outpatient clinics, OPAT services and SpR supervision.
• If CCT in Microbiology or Virology, support to the Infection Sciences laboratory services.
• Develop local clinical IPC guidelines, manage outbreaks, and deliver key performance with a particular focus on leading antimicrobial stewardship (bacterial and fungal).
• All consultants will have PA allocation for specific responsibilities e.g. antimicrobial stewardship, IPC, OPAT.
• Participate in the non-resident on-call rota., Each post-holder will have a rotational post across at least two of the sites at RB&H and Guys. The nature of these roles may be tailored to the interests of the post holders, provided they meet the core service needs and are agreed with the other existing consultants.
Continuing professional development (CPD) and Appraisal: Consultants can apply for professional and study leave over a three-year period up to 30 days (on average 10 days per year). Statutory and Mandatory training must be taken within the leave allocation. Mentoring: There is an active mentoring and coaching scheme available to all consultants. New consultants are encouraged to participate in the New Consultants Forum. Job Planning: The post holder's job plan is anticipated to contain 10 Programmed Activities (PA) per week, to be carried out primarily on one site at any one time. Proposed timetable: Final agreement on timetabled commitments will be agreed on taking up the post and then reviewed at least annually., For the first year, participate in a 1 in 5 ID/Microbiology on-call rota dependant on site of work GSTT or RBHH (Category A) in order to authorise and communicate significant laboratory results, and provide specialist clinical advice. In addition, after the first year and depending upon clinical experience and skills, the post-holder will also be offered the chance participate in the rota for rare admissions to the HCID-a unit at St Thomas'.About us The DoI comprises ~ 115 clinical and administrative staff from the Dept. of Infectious Diseases (including the Virology & Microbiology laboratories run in partnership with Synnovis UK and Ireland) and the Dept. of Infection Prevention & Control. Dr Nicholas Price is the Clinical Director and joint-Director of IPC (DIPC) and Ms Avey Bhatia, Chief Nurse, has Executive IPC responsibility. Dr Bill Newsholme (Infectious Diseases & IPC) and Dr James Whitehorn (Laboratories) are the medical Service Leads. In addition to medical staff (below), there are approximately 60 IPC staff led by joint-DIPC, Dr Jon Otter, plus a dedicated ID pharmacy team. Every DoI consultant works in partnership with IPC colleagues and is allocated specific responsibilities in job planning (e.g. anti-microbial resistance/ stewardship, C. difficile and bacteraemia investigation, surgical site infection, intravenous line care etc.). ID consultant leadership is by example and is considered essential to driving higher standards of IPC quality across and lending front-line credibility. The Dept. of IPC comprisesAcute Trust and Community nurses, an Intravascular Device team, a Surgical Site Infection Surveillance and Innovation Unit (SIU) team and a Decontamination/Environmental IPC team. The IPC matrons work in close partnership with a dedicated Infection consultant supporting in area.