Infection Consultant

One less than full time substantive post (8 PAs) as consultant in Clinical Infection is available at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post-holder is expected to have full and specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) and to hold CCTs in Microbiology and Infectious diseases, or equivalent (e.g. CESR), or to be eligible for CCTs and specialist registration within six months of interview. The applicant will be expected to take on roles in the clinical infection service. The components of this are flexible, worked as a rotation with colleagues and assigned by mutual negotiation. They may include microbiology/virology laboratory work, bedside infection consults across the Trust, outpatients (general ID, HIV, OPAT, TB, bone infection MDT clinic, diabetic foot infection MDT clinic, hepatitis and chronic fatigue), and inpatient care on the bone infection unit (BIU) and infectious diseases ward. The post holder should also be competent to care for general medical patients on the infectious diseases ward. Infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship are integrated into all these components, led by the infection control and antimicrobial stewardship teams., Clinical responsibilities will be divided between the microbiology/virology lab, out-patients services (ID, HIV, OPAT, TB, bone infection, diabetic foot infection, hepatitis and chronic fatigue), in-patient infection service (ID, BIU), and infection consults. Clinical duties will be based at the John Radcliffe Hospital (infection consults, outpatients, infectious diseases in-patient work), the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (Bone Infection Unit), the Churchill Hospital (diabetic foot infection clinic and service, haem-onc/transplant infection consult work). Infection services across the Trust are delivered by a large multi-disciplinary team of consultant colleagues with different specialist areas, and the appointee will be eligible to take part in multiple aspects of the service, including in-patient care according to their competency and experience. The job plan will be agreed with the clinical lead. The post holder will be allocated a mentor by the clinical lead. The post holder will take part in an on-call rota for which the predictable out of hours component is incorporated into the job plan. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust's 4 locations. The travel time from the John Radcliffe to the Horton Hospital is 45-60 minutes. Post holders are expected to live within 45 minutes travel of the John Radcliffe Hospital when on call.Working for our organisation Teaching/Research Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital trust, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching clinical students, training junior doctors and in clinical examinations. Clinical Governance The post-holder will participate in all clinical governance activities, including clinical audit, clinical effectiveness, risk management, quality improvement activities as required by the Trust, and external accrediting bodies. Personal and Professional Development The post-holder will be required to keep himself/herself fully up-to-date with their relevant area of practice and to be able to demonstrate this to the satisfaction of the Trust. Professional or study leave will be granted at the discretion of the Trust, in line with the prevailing Terms and Conditions of Service, to support appropriate study, postgraduate training activities, relevant CME courses and other appropriate personal development needs. Appraisal/Revalidation The post-holder will have an appraiser allocated by the Trust and undergo yearly appraisals. They must fulfil GMC requirements for revalidation. The responsible officer for this post will be the Chief Medical Officer for OUH NHS FT., The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

• Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• CCTs in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases or equivalent qualifications (e.g., CESR) which enable specialist registration OR eligibility for these CCTs and specialist registration within six months of interview
Desirable criteria
• Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Experience managing the daily workflow of a microbiology/virology lab at consultant level, and in making decisions pertaining to infection prevention & control.
• Experience managing in-patients on an Infectious Diseases ward at consultant level
• Experience of managing ward-based infection consultations at consultant level
• Experience managing HIV, high consequence infectious diseases, tropical medicine, antimicrobial resistance and outpatient antimicrobial therapy (OPAT),
• Experience managing complicated bone and joint infections.
• Experience managing patients with Chronic Fatigue syndrome.
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
• A strong and demonstrable commitment to the organisation and delivery of teaching.
Desirable criteria
• Ability to manage acute general medical patients at consultant level.
• Experience working in a UK infectious diseases unit., Good leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of consultant in a teaching hospital
• Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Evidence of having participated in post graduate research projects and evidence demonstrating critical thinking
Desirable criteria
• PhD in an infection related subject
• Peer reviewed publications Research grants, Transport: The ability to travel between sites (in Oxford and Banbury), You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel. Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.