Job overview

CONSULTANT IN PAEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

5PA permanent position 

Applications are invited for a 5 PA consultant post in the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit based at St. George’s Hospital. The Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit provides a regional PID service to the old South West Thames region. The work of the PIDU includes care of PID inpatient children as well as an outpatient service for children with immunodeficiency and infectious diseases conditions. Specialist services are provided for HIV, primary immunodeficiencies, congenital infections and TB and include regular multidisciplinary meetings.

St. George’s is a large teaching hospital affiliated with St. George’s University of London Medical School. It is a major centre for clinical care, teaching and research. Children’s services provide local and tertiary Paediatric services and the PID team work closely with specialist Paediatric services including surgery, PICU, neurology, genetics, respiratory, ophthalmology, ENT, plastic surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, radiology, metabolic diseases and Newborn Services.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Main duties of the job

Outpatient clinics-         

•  Lead outpatient clinics in paediatric immunology (including PID, autoinflammatory, and immune dysregulation disorders) and vaccinology
• Engage in joint multidisciplinary clinics (e.g. respiratory).
• Participate in the immunoglobulin home therapy and SCID programme
• Act as a clinical lead for vaccination advice and post-exposure prophylaxis in complex patients
• Participate in the fortnightly immunology MDT and weekly complex infection MDT.

Out of hours work and on call

The out of hours Paediatric Infectious Diseases service is a 24 hour/7 day a week responsibility while acting as the attending Paediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant.

Management responsibility

The postholder is expected to be involved with teaching junior paediatric staff in the morning tutorials, case presentations and the Paediatric Grand Round.

Working for our organisation

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. In addition to acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s Healthcare serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy 
training centre.