Consultant in Microbiology

Overview

This replacement post is offered on a full time (10 PA) basis although less than full time applications will be considered. Duties will be based primarily on our Pinderfields hospital site in Wakefield, although all our medical staff are involved in delivering care to patients on all our 3 hospital sites. Ability to work from home for part of the week for in-hours work is available.

On-call work can be undertaken from home.

This post provides a unique opportunity to join our innovative and expanding infection department. We welcome applicants with either CCT in Microbiology or joint CCT in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. This is a replacement post offered at 10 PAs full time, though part time applicants with pro-rata on call will be considered. The post holder will be responsible for contributing to our 24-hour Clinical Infection Service.

Infection services in the trust encompass a wide range of complex and interesting cases including The Mid Yorkshire Regional Adult Burns Centre and Regional Childrens Burns Unit and Yorkshire Regional Spinal Injuries Centre. The Trust is developing a range of clinical care services relevant to Infectious Diseases and Microbiology dual trained consultants, with one such consultant already in post. Our Trust recently attained Teaching status.

As part of our journey to University Hospital status, the Trust has a strategic priority to increase our number of clinical academic positions, we would welcome applicants who have an aspiration to adopt a clinical academic role in future.

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support.

These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

This post provides a unique opportunity to join our innovative and expanding infection department. We welcome applicants with either CCT in Microbiology or joint CCT in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. This is a replacement post offered at 10 PAs full time, though part time applicants with pro-rata on call will be considered.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to our 24-hour Clinical Infection Service. Infection services in the trust encompass a wide range of complex and interesting cases including The Mid Yorkshire Regional Adult Burns Centre and Regional Children s Burns Unit and Yorkshire Regional Spinal Injuries Centre.

Our Trust is developing a range of clinical care services relevant to Infectious Diseases and Microbiology dual trained consultants, with one such consultant already in post.

Our Trust recently attained Teaching status. As part of our journey to University Hospital status, the Trust has a strategic priority to increase our number of clinical academic positions, we would welcome applicants who have an aspiration to adopt a clinical academic role in future.

The post holder will work effectively alongside clinical colleagues to provide a comprehensive infection service including:

• Provision of clinical advice from within the Trust, primary care and other healthcare colleagues in our region
• Authorisation and interpretation of laboratory results
• Liaison with the laboratory team
• Working effectively with junior infection specialist colleagues, the pharmacy team and regional infection specialist colleagues
• Infection prevention and control advice - with opportunity to take up Trust infection control roles e.g. DIPC
• Liaising with the local UKHSA team for notifiable diseases/organisms and participation in mandatory surveillance
• Multidisciplinary meetings - including haematology, orthopaedics, infection control, regional burns centre and intensive care
• Developing services including outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), undergraduate teaching and research
• On-call duties - currently shared on a 1 in 4 basis. On-call responsibility is currently based on 1 in 4 rota.
• Involvement in clinical governance, audit and quality of…