Specialty Doctor Microbiology - Buckinghamshire

Specialty Doctor Microbiology

We are recruiting a to a 12 month NHS Fixed Term Specialty Doctor Microbiology post for an NHS Trust in Buckinghamshire.

This is a new post for Specialty Doctor in Microbiology. It is envisaged that this post would be suitable for a doctor with at least 3-5 years of postgraduate experience who would be interested in exploring infection specialities as a career option or for a doctor with specialist microbiology / infection experience overseas looking to work in NHS and gain UK experience. However our client can be flexible on these expectations.

The post holder will be expected to contribute with consultant colleagues and peers to the provision of a Clinical Microbiology/Infectious disease services.

Main duties of the job:

Duties as appropriate to the grade of the post under the direction of the consultants responsible including:

- Duty Microbiologist role for clinical advice
- Supervision of the laboratory Microbiology service.
- Supervision of and participation in further processing of specimens and interpretation of results.
- Authorisation and interpretation of results
- Ward rounds and referral service as necessary.
- Participation in teaching, research, audits as necessary.
- Attendance by agreement at the Microbiology Clinical/ management Meeting and Clinical Improvement Group (CIG) meetings.
- Clinical Responsibilities

- Taking routine clinical calls and communication of critical results
- Attendance at Microbiology antibiotic ward rounds
- Attendance to Haematology and other MDTs
- Daily ITU ward rounds with consultant on call
- Attendance at the Infection prevention and control (IPC) meetings
- Participation in Clinical Grand Round on Wednesday afternoon (expected)
- Participation in day-to-day Infection Control activities
- Participation in Infection control meetings, AMS Committee meetings and others as necessary
- Participate in Public Health Duties: liaison with the Regional UKHSA -laboratory and UKHSA who will provide support in reporting outbreaks, cluster of cases and any other SI to the appropriate authorities.
- Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Clinical activities run in a four-weekly rota and the total is 9PA. 1 SPA is allocated for CPD and revalidation purposes. This can be worked flexibly with mutual agreement

Direct clinical activities include medical and surgical specialties, ITU primary care and Virology and Serology work.

Our client is able to show some flexibility on the above.

If this Specialty Doctor Microbiology vacancy is of interest to you then please apply now. You will be contacted very shortly after by one of our recruiters specialising in Microbiology vacancies across the NHS.