Consultant Interested Opat Therapy Infectious - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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

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Description

NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant


Main area

  • Infectious Diseases
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Grade

  • NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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Contract

  • Permanent
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Hours

  • Full time 10 sessions per week
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Job ref

Site

  • NUH-City Campus
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Town

  • Nottingham
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Closing

  • 07/06/2023 23:59
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Interview date

  • 20/07/2023Job overview

Advert for Consultant posts in Infection Specialties:

OPAT, Infectious Diseases
Applicants are invited for two Consultant posts within the Infection and Microbiology service at Nottingham University Hospitals:1x 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

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities


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.

Person specification

Professional registration

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) in Infectious Diseases, or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
  • Applicants that are nonUK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT
Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • MRCP or evidence of equivalent training and experience
  • Evidence of continuing professional development (existing Consultants must be able to demonstrate active participation in a recognised CPD scheme)
Desirable criteria

  • Higher professional degree e.g. MSc, MD, PhD
Clinical skills/Experience

Essential criteria

  • Experience of working with antimicrobial stewardship, infection control teams, or similar multidisciplinary infection team
  • Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description
  • Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients, their families and other health professionals.
Desirable criteria

  • Experience of leading an antimicrobial stewardship, infection control team, or similar multidisciplinary infection team
  • Specific training in Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy
  • Specific training in communication skills
  • Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors
Management skills

Essential criteria

  • Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.
  • Able to delegate appropriately.
  • Able to work in a team.
  • Demonstrates ability to foster and promote the delivery of a clinical infection service
Desirable criteria

  • Higher degree/qualification/ specific training in clinical leadership or management
  • Experience in managing change in service delivery of a clinical and/or diagnostic infection service
Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential criteria

  • Demonstrates experience in undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
  • Demonstrates participation in teaching and training team members
  • Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit/Quality Improvement
  • Skills in critical appraisal of scientific papers
Desirable criteria

  • Specific training in medical education and/or higher degree in medical education (e.g. PGCert, MSc)
  • Specific training in quality improvement or clinical audit
  • Evidence of leadership in quality improvement / clinical audit / clinical governance
  • Original Research Publications Higher teaching degree or qualification or training
  • Evidence of participation in peer review/editorial review of scientific
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