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- Prif leoliad
- Infectious Diseases
- Gradd
- NHS medical and dental: consultant
- Contract
- Cyfnod Penodol: 6 mis (6 mths with potential move to permanent)
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 10 sesiwn yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 196-LCON1123
- Cyflogwr
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Guy's Hospital
- Tref
- London
- Cyflog
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr

Locum Consultant in Infectious Diseases and/or Medical Micro/Viro/GIM
NHS medical and dental: consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Title of Post:
6 mth locum Consultant in Infectious Diseases (Adult or Paediatric) & Medical Microbiology/Virology (ID/MMV) or Medical Microbiology or Medical Virology or Consultant in Infectious Diseases & General Internal Medicine (GIM)
No. of Sessions (PAs): 10
The Consultant reports to the Clinical Lead for Infectious Diseases and is responsible through the Clinical Lead and the Director of Infection (Dr Nick Price) to the Chief Executive (Dr Ian Abbs) for the satisfactory performance of their duties.
The post-holder will join 3 existing Infection consultants at Guys’ Hospital, with the post being offered initially as a locum.
The intention is to convert the role to a substantive post in 2026, which would be part of a rotating ID/microbiology post between Guys, RBH and Harefield hospitals.
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.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
Whilst individual consultants will develop their own areas of specialist expertise over time, all will deliver:
o Ward-based infection consults and telephone advice on the diagnosis, management and prevention of infection.
o Timetabled multi-disciplinary clinical meetings and ward rounds.
o ID outpatient clinics in close conjunction with the sub-specialist service.
o There is a potential to develop a new OPAT service for RBHH sites.
· If CCT in Microbiology or Virology there would be an expectation to support the Infection Sciences laboratory services.
· The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the induction and training of the StRs rotating to Microbiology/Infectious Diseases/Virology.
· Work closely with clinical teams, pharmacists and the IPC nursing team.
· All consultants will have PA allocation for specific responsibilities e.g. antimicrobial stewardship, IPC, OPAT.
· The post-holder will participate in the non-resident on-call rota which will be shared equally with the other consultants.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
The Directorate of Infection (DoI) comprises clinical, laboratory, infection prevention and control and surveillance services covering Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, the Evelina children’s hospital, Harefield and the Royal Brompton. A defining characteristic of the service model we have striven to develop is seamless integration of these distinct but complementary clinical disciplines in order to deliver the highest-quality patient care.
The DoI comprises about 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 Simon Goldenberg (Laboratories) are the medical Service Leads.
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. ID consultant leadership is by example and is considered essential to driving higher standards of IPC quality across and lending front-line credibility.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
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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:
o Infections in patients with cancer. Guy’s Hospital is the SE sector regional hub for Cancer including medical, clinical and surgical oncology (the new Cancer Centre opened in 2016) and has a large malignant and non-malignant haematology service.
o Infections in Renal Transplant and Urology services. Guys has an active kidney and pancreas transplant programme supporting the sector and is the hub for renal services and dialysis providing for a dialysis population of approx. 900 in 8 satellite units.
o A proposed centre of excellence for complex elective orthopaedic and spinal services is under development having been commissioned as SE sector hub for joint revision surgery.
o The site also houses the regional Thoracic surgical, Head and Neck and ENT and Urology surgical groups.
o There is a well-established OPAT team providing OPAT services for Guy’s and St Thomas’ patients, with expanding links into the South East London virtual ward initiative.
· Whilst individual consultants will develop their own areas of specialist expertise over time, all will deliver:
o Ward-based infection consults and telephone advice on the diagnosis, management and prevention of infection in response to referrals and significant laboratory results.
o Timetabled multi-disciplinary clinical meetings and ward rounds, e.g. Critical Care, medical and surgical ‘board rounds’, anti-microbial stewardship etc.
o ID outpatient clinics in close conjunction with the sub-specialist service.
o There is a potential to develop a new OPAT service for RBHH sites.
· If CCT in Microbiology or Virology there would be an expectation to support the Infection Sciences laboratory services alongside the other site microbiologists and virologists. Laboratory duties will include result authorisation, contribution to the day-to-day running of the diagnostic service, troubleshooting of unexpected results and active participation in laboratory management and development. Alongside existing RBHH and GSTT, and KCH and PRUH, consultant colleagues they will also support the transfer of work to the new large, multi-hospital offsite laboratory hub in 2024.
· The post-holder will be expected to contribute to the induction and training of the StRs rotating to Microbiology/Infectious Diseases/Virology, to take an active part in postgraduate teaching and training and participate in KCL Medical School undergraduate teaching in years 2 and 3.
· Work closely with clinical teams, pharmacists and the IPC nursing team to develop local clinical guidelines, manage outbreaks, and deliver key performance objectives (e.g. C. difficile, blood stream infections etc.) and staff education/training. There will be 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.
· The post-holder will participate in the non-resident on-call rota which will be shared equally with the other consultants in the Microbiology section. Weekend authorisation is performed by the on-call Infection consultant, this can be done remotely and no weekend on-site presence is generally required.
Manyleb y person
Professional Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Full and Specialist GMC Registration and current licence to practise.
- Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT.
- On GMC Specialist Register for Microbiology OR Microbiology and Infectious Diseases OR Virology
Meini prawf dymunol
- MD or PhD
- MRCP or equivalent
- Infection Prevention and Control qualification (e.g. DipHIC or MSc)
- FRCPath or equivalent
Clinical Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Comprehensive experience across the range of adult infectious diseases.
- Experience in writing clinical infection and/or laboratory guidelines.
- Working knowledge in Infection Prevention and Control in the acute care setting e.g. management of outbreaks and antimicrobial stewardship.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Expert knowledge and experience in management of infection in the non-HIV immunocompromised host eg. transplant, cancer or renal patients
- Diagnosis and management of infections in chronic lung disease involving non-tuberculous mycobacteria, tuberculosis, fungi, resistance to multiple antibiotics.
- Diagnosis and management of cardiac and thoracic infections.
- Expert knowledge and experience in orthopaedic and/or diabetic foot infections.
- Expert knowledge and experience in OPAT.
- Leading or managing a diagnostic laboratory.
- Introduction of new laboratory tests into the diagnostic repertoire.
- Managing change in order to deliver clinical infection or infection control targets.
- Post-graduate IPC qualification.
Clinical Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Operating an Infectious Diseases clinical consult service and contributing to multidisciplinary clinical meetings.
- If applicable, running an Infectious Diseases out-patient clinic or OPAT service.
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Clinical assessment and management of Critical Care patients.
Audit Management & IT
Meini prawf hanfodol
- A track record demonstrating clinical governance, audit, service development and management and IT skills.
- Evidence of leading service development and participation in quality improvement projects for clinical and/or laboratory services.
Research. Teaching skill & experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Teaching qualification
- A track record of research, publications/ understanding / knowledge of Research ethics.
- Experience of independently attracting research funding.
- Holder of GCP certification and involvement in clinical trials.
Leadership / Management skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Communication; Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Accountability; Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal Skills; Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others. Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure. Ability to work as part of a team
- Staff Management; Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff. Ability to lead staff, balance competing demands on the diagnostic service, striving to develop an efficient and high-quality laboratory service.
- Finance; Knowledge of finance and budgets.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of business case and service development.
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
Dogfennau i'w lawrlwytho
Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- William Newsholme
- Teitl y swydd
- Clinical Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
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