Job vacancy: Consultant in Clinical infection and GIM, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford

Job summary

Main area: Infectious Diseases
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (oncall)
Job ref: 321-MRC-MS-6223990-S5-A

Employer: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Oxford
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 Not defined
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/07/2024 23:59

Consultant in Clinical infection and GIM

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will have an active role in delivering infection control advice, antimicrobial stewardship and conducting case investigations on all sites. They will be expected to make an active contribution to the production of relevant policies within the terms of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance).

Infection Control is everyone’s responsibility. All staff, both clinical and non-clinical, are required to adhere to the Trusts’ Infection Prevention and Control Policies and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection control at all times thereby reducing the burden of Healthcare Associated Infections.

All staff employed by the Trust have the following key responsibilities:

Staff must decontaminate their hands prior to and after direct patient contact or contact with the patient’s surroundings.
Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust.
Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

MRCP (UK)
GMC registered with licence to practice in the UK
GMC Specialist Registration with CCTs in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine, or equivalent qualifications (e.g. CESR) which enable specialist registration Or eligibility for these CCTs and specialist registration within six months of interview

Desirable criteria

Higher Medical Degree
Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Experience

Essential criteria

Ability to provide inpatient and outpatient management of infectious diseases and ward- based infection consultations at consultant level
Ability to manage acute unselected medical takes at consultant level
Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
A strong and demonstrable commitment to the organisation and delivery of teaching.

Desirable criteria

Clinical experience in high consequence infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, complicated bone and joint infections, outpatient antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), tropical medicine.
Experience working in an infectious diseases unit at consultant level

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Good leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of consultant in a teaching hospital
Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
Good written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
Evidence of having participated in post graduate research projects and evidence demonstrating critical thinking

Desirable criteria

PhD in an infection related subject
Peer reviewed publications

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

Transport: The ability to travel between sites (in Oxford and Banbury)
Residence: Within 45 minutes of John Radcliffe Hospital while on call

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.