Clinical Fellow in Medical Microbiology / Infection

A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust.

Exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic clinical fellow (registrar level) to join our dynamic team of microbiologists in providing infection services to a large and diverse population. You will be working across two hospital sites, starting out with Queens initially. Activities would include liaison with the microbiology laboratory, phoning out important results and liaising with the clinical teams to give them specialist advice as well as answering clinical queries and doing ward rounds or patient reviews. This job caters to a variety of interests in the ever changing field of infection, and will give you a broad range of experience for the next step in your infection career.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Fellow (Registrar level) to join the Trust on a 12-month fixed term contract working within the Microbiology & Infection team based at Queens and King George Hospitals.

Typical duties include Clinical Microbiology/Infection consultations, liaison & advice, daily infection ward rounds, laboratory bench rounds, report authorisation, infection prevention & control liaison, antimicrobial stewardship activities/ward rounds as part of the Microbiology/ Infection team, under the supervision of a duty consultant.

Dependent on assessment of clinical competence, knowledge & experience, there may be an opportunity to undertake 1st on call Microbiology duties during the post, with a 2nd on call Consultant Microbiologist. This is subject to discussion & review.

The appointee will be expected to attend and actively participate in Departmental and other teaching sessions. It is expected that the appointee will assist with the teaching of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate junior doctors. This post provides a broad experience in the clinical management of Infection. Previous appointees have progressed from this post to further their careers in Infection Specialty roles.

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We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across northeast London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.