Senior Clinical Fellow In Infectious Diseases / Microbiology

A clinical fellow post at Guy's and St Thomas offers an exciting opportunity to gain experience in a wide range of complex infection cases expected in a large acute and tertiary referral teaching hospital.

This post may also involve acquiring laboratory skills in Microbiology and Virology and applying these to a ward-based consult service on the Guy's, St. Thomas', Royal Brompton or Harefield site, or to looking after infectious diseases in-patients on the St. Thomas' site.

The post is suitable for clinicians experienced in Infectious Diseases / Microbiology / Virology (equivalent to ST3+ level), available to start asap.

The post involves opportunities to contribute to the wide-ranging clinical infection service run at Guy's, St Thomas', The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals which compromises an inpatient ward, on site laboratories and specialist services focussing on delivering consults.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Main duties of the job

Clinical consultation/microbiology & virology laboratory service:

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.

There is a specialised inpatient ward with facilities to manage HCID cases.

The Dept supports a wide range of specialist services via MDTs. There is a very large ITU service including a regional severe respiratory failure service.

On-call

The on call commitment is at a 1 in 9 frequency weekday nights (Monday-Friday) If on call, the postholder would also be expected to cover the High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) service, if activated, and after appropriate training.
Teaching responsibilities

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 Sam Douthwaite (Infectious Diseases) and Dr Simon Goldenberg (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.