Consultant in Infectious Diseases - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Verified Company
Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter
Description

NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant


Main area

  • Infectious Diseases
-
Grade

  • NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
-
Contract

  • Permanent
-
Hours

  • Full time 10 sessions per week
-
Job ref

Site

  • CITY
-
Town

  • Nottingham
-
Closing

  • Today at 23:59
-
Interview date

  • 20/07/2023Job overview
Applicants are invited for three Consultant posts within the Infection and Microbiology service at Nottingham University Hospitals:1x Infectious Diseases Consultant

1x Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Consultant

1x OPAT Consultant combined with either Microbiology or Infectious Diseases.

Each post is a substantive post with 10 programmed activities per week. These posts have arisen from an expansion of Infection and Microbiology services. The posts encompass both Queens Medical Centre and the City Campus of Nottingham University Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The Infectious Diseases and OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy) Department is based at the City Campus.

For the OPAT service there will be review of patients in the Intravenous Infusion Centre, review via virtual ward rounds and face to face in clinic.

There will be liaison with a wide variety of specialties.

At City Campus there is a 13 bed, dedicated Infectious Disease Ward, which has seven en-suite side rooms, five with monitored, negative pressure ventilation.

The ward has recently been refurbished.

Patients are admitted from the emergency medical admission wards, transferred from other departments within the Trust, or other hospitals within the region.

Patients with a wide range of infections are seen including HIV, tuberculosis, returned travellers, community and hospital acquired infections, and pyrexia of unknown origin.

Duties in Infectious Diseases include contributions to an outpatient clinic, inpatient care and out of hours on call, in rotation with existing Consultants.

Working for our organisation


The post-holders will also be expected to undertake undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to doctors and nurses, clinical audit, management activities and work in a multidisciplinary team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

  • Full and specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or be eligible for registration within six months of interview) 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
Knowledge

Essential criteria

  • As per person specification (essential)
Desirable criteria

  • As per person specification (desirable)
- _________________________________________

Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience.

Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.


Salary:
The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence:

All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.


At Risk of redundancy:

NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.


ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa's and driving license through a system called Trust ID.

NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment.

The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation.

The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.


Consent:

  • Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service
  • I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the
    Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
More jobs from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
See all jobs of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust