Senior Clinical Fellow In Infectious Diseases / Microbiology

The clinical and diagnostic services are fully integrated. Most clinical work involves liaison with the diverse clinical specialities in the Trust. This may be via clinical consults or telephone advice., On occasion the postholder will be expected to contribute to the teaching of medical students.
Clinical audit

The postholder is expected to lead audit projects through the 'audit cycle'.
Management training

Experience should be gained, under supervision, in planning departmental policies and developing leadership qualities to implement them.

Dr Nicholas Price is the Clinical Director and joint-Director of IPC (DIPC) and Ms Avey Bhatia, Chief Nurse, has Executive IPC responsibility. Dr Geraldine O'Hara (Infectious Diseases) and Dr Jamie Whitehorn (Laboratories) are the medical Service Leads.

IPC staff are led by joint-DIPC, Dr Jon Otter, plus a dedicated ID pharmacy team. Every DoI consultant works in partnership with IPC colleagues.

The Royal Brompton and Harefield (RB&HH) hospitals, which make up the UK's largest postgraduate specialist heart and lung centre, were merged with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation Trust (GSTT) in February 2021.

The Directorate also works closely with 7 Paediatric ID Consultants based at the Evelina London Children's Hospital on the St Thomas' site.

In addition, the DoI hosts one of the national high-level infection units for High Consequence Infectious Diseases-airborne pathogens (HCID-a).

The DoI is fully integrated with, and provides clinical leadership to, the Microbiology and Virology laboratories, which are part of a 15-year Joint Venture (JV) between GSTT, Kings College Hospital and a private sector partner.