Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and progressive Infectious Diseases team in this newly created post working across both ID and Microbiology. The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering a high quality clinical service alongside the multidisciplinary team. The role will be extremely varied and will provide a fantastic challenge to clinicians interested in working with complex and wide-ranging cases.
In addition to more usual community and hospital acquired infections, Bradford has a significant amount of travel related infection including around 30 cases a year of enteric fever and 10-20 cases of malaria.
In conjunction with the Respiratory Physicians the team also provides a district wide service for TB, including treatment, immigrant screening and contact. Bradford has 120-150 new notifications of TB per year, with a high proportion of non-pulmonary / complicated disease.
There is a cohort of over 550 HIV outpatient patients who receive their care from consultants from the ID service in collaboration with partners from Locala GUM Consultants, supported by a team of specialist nurses allowing delivery of holistic clinic care.
The OPAT service is also led by Infectious Diseases and there is a weekly OPAT MDT to discuss patients especially the complex longer term patients with input from Antimicrobial Pharmacist and OPAT CNS.
Provide an advisory and clinical consultative service to clinical colleagues in the Trust as appropriate and to General Practitioners on the investigation and management of microbial diseases.
In collaboration with other colleagues, help plan the future provision of Infection Service through the collaborative arrangement with Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
Co ntribute to all aspects of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Service, including the supervision of the processing of requests and reporting of results; the provision of a clinical service to inpatient areas, and regular liaison with key clinical personnel as appropriate; participation in the Consultant microbiologist on-call rota.
Share responsibility with the other Consultants for monitoring performance in Quality Assurance programmes and, by contributing to the internal management process, ensure that appropriate action is taken in a timely fashion when this is necessary.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Full information on the main duties and responsibilities of the role are outlined in the job description attached to the advert. Please see this document for the full role profile

Please refer the Job description for details