Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

The Department of Microbiology at Kingston Hospital provides a comprehensive clinical microbiology and infection prevention and control service, including daily ICU  rounds, regular antimicrobial stewardship rounds and an OPAT service.

Laboratory services are provided by South West London Pathology (SWLP), an NHS partnership between Kingston, St George’s, Croydon University Hospital and Epsom and St Helier Hospitals. The networked Microbiology service is hosted by St George’s, with shared governance by consultants from all partner Trusts. There is a small molecular laboratory onsite at Kingston with LIATs and GeneXperts for rapid Covid, influenza and RSV testing. Onsite norovirus testing is being piloted on the GeneXperts. Blood culture incubators are based onsite at Kingston.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

Authorisation of results,   Clinical advice via phone calls and e-referrals,   Antimicrobial ward rounds/ITU ward rounds,    OPAT service provision.

Twice weekly Teams meetings with the Microbiology/OPAT team for

handover and case discussion.

Liaise with Infection Prevention and Control team about significant

 positive results

 Laboratory liaison via the laboratory LIMS, emails or phone calls.

Any governance issues to be escalated to the Lead Consultant, who

will take to Pathology Governance if required.

The post holder will work closely with the team of 4 existing

consultants, Infection Prevention and Control team, OPAT nurses and

antimicrobial pharmacists.

The post holder will be trained to use the LIMS system (Winpath.

 Identify own training and development needs and undertake

appropriate training/education as required. 

Participate in an annual individual performance review process where

objectives will be agreed, performance monitored, and personal

development needs discussed.

To attend all statutory and mandatory training as and when required to

 do so.

Act responsibly in respect of colleagues’ health, safety and welfare

following safe work practices and complying with the Trust’s Health and

Safety Policies. 

Adhere to all Trust Policies as applicable. 

Working for our organisation

This post is based at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust, a new Trust created in November 2024, bringing together acute and community services locally to improve care for our community.

The post holder will be based at Kingston Hospital, an acute hospital with approximately 400 beds, supporting a population of around 350,000 people in South West London. We are proud of our reputation as the largest single site district general hospital in London, with the second biggest maternity unit in London. Each year, over one million people visit Kingston Hospital for treatment or as a visitor. Kingston Hospital was the first acute Trust in South West London to gain Foundation Trust status, and was rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in 2018.

The hospital is based about 12 miles from the centre of London with good transport links into the capital and in a beautiful and historic part of the country, close to Richmond Park and the River Thames. Further information is available on the Trust website Home :: Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust