Job summary
- Main area
- Microbiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6439922NR
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Microbiologist
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Applications are invited for the post of Consultant Microbiologist to join the Microbiology department at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will become part of a team providing diagnostic services to a wide range of specialties to some of the largest specialist departments in the region (including the largest trauma and orthopaedics service, one of the largest cardiology departments and one of the largest units in the region for colorectal surgery services), General Practitioners and primary care across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Alongside these posts we would consider the option of Clinical Lead and DIPC roles depending on applicants experience and preference.
The Microbiology laboratory has benefited from the Trust’s substantial capital investment and is well equipped with state of the art technology including mass spectrometry and automated identification and antibiotic susceptibility platforms.
Main duties of the job
You would join a team of 4 Consultant Microbiologists (3.6WTE) providing a 1 in 5 (including this post) on-call for Infection Prevention and Control (Band A) and a joint second on-call for Microbiology with Newcastle-upon-Tyne NHS Foundation Trust (1 in 13) with a registrar providing first on-call (subject to ongoing review). Our team also consists of two Trust Grade Microbiology Doctors.
The post holder will participate in the varied clinical microbiology workload shared between the consultants, including provision of advice on test interpretation, authorisation of results, review of patients with clinical teams, clinical ward rounds and advice on appropriate antimicrobial therapy and infection control.
It is essential that you have completed higher specialist training in Microbiology or Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and be on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of award of CCT or equivalent by the date of interview.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We can offer the flexibility of full time or part time hours and are keen to explore flexible working to provide a good work life balance.
Along side these posts we would consider the option of Clinical Lead and DIPC roles depending on applicants experience and preference.
The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop a specialist interest. For full details of the post please see the job description.
The department has full UKAS ISO 15189 accreditation.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in Microbiology
- High standard of clinical skill and expertise in clinical microbiology
- Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
- Experience in infection prevention and control
- Experience of antibiotic stewardship
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register (either Microbiology or Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of the Advisory Appointment Committee
- Member/Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists or equivalent
- Full GMC Registration
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debra Padgett
- Job title
- Clinical Pathology Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07970854643
- Additional information
Prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to visit the department. For information and to arrange a visit or virtual tour, please contact Debra Padgett on the contact information above.
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