Trust Grade Doctor Infectious Diseases & OPAT

Trust Grade Doctor Infectious Diseases & OPAT

The closing date is 26 February 2026

Applicants are invited for one Trust Grade post within the Department of Infectious Diseases and OPAT at Nottingham University Hospitals.

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

The successful applicant will be provided with training and educational opportunities, tailored to meet individual needs. Where service provision allows, successful applicants are encouraged to attend educational teaching sessions. For interested individuals there will be an opportunity to contribute to audit. Post holders will be expected to keep themselves up to date with current knowledge and practice, to attend clinical meetings within departments and to participate in audit and in service training of other professionals.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team  are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

• Good and wide ranging recent experience of clinical medicine.
• Capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement.
• Potential to develop excellent diagnostic skills.
• UK experience of three months or more
• Experience in a large acute hospital
• Substantive UK/Irish experience
• At least two full years' post graduate clinical experience equivalent to foundation training

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Basic skills in presentations for professional and non-professional groups.
• Basic computer skills
• Demonstrable skills in spoken English, adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues.
• Ability to contribute to a multi-disciplinary team.

• MBBS or equivalent
• GMC Registration with licence to practice
• MRCP Part 1, 2.
• MRCP PACES

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Dr Jonathan Thompson