Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant in Medical Microbiology
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Clinical Microbiology/Infection Service Consultant
This appointment is for an exciting clinical position in an active and friendly Clinical Microbiology/Infection service. We are looking for a Consultant in Medical Microbiology or Microbiology & Infectious Disease to take up an 8PA consultant post as a replacement to join our existing team of consultants.
The team is supported by two excellent OPAT nurses, 2 HSST trainees, 1 STP trainee, 1 clinical scientist, 2 LTFT SpRs, and 2 FY2s (one shared with GU medicine).
Department Overview
The department operates a two-consultant duty model during normal working hours with one covering Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital (BNHH), one covering Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (RHCH), as well as providing advice to primary care. Authorisation of laboratory results is shared between the consultant team and a clinical scientist. The laboratory scientific team are based in the Microbiology laboratory at Basingstoke Hospital. There is an essential services laboratory at RHCH which performs blood culture incubation, respiratory PCR, and a number of other diagnostic tests to support rapid infection and infection control decision making.
Clinical Duties
- Undertake result reporting in core hours
- Respond in a timely manner to clinical and laboratory enquiries (in line with RCPath KPIs)
- Out of hours clinical advice on call on a 1:7 rota including weekends, week nights, and bank holidays. Remote access is available to allow remote interrogation of LIMS and other Trust electronic systems (radiology, prescribing) when on call.
- Ensure that important findings rapidly reach the requesting clinicians and advise regarding appropriate action
- Be involved in the clinical management of patients in the hospital and community. This includes both daily ward rounds to ITU and complex infection patients as described above.
- Supervise and support the junior doctors and trainee clinical scientist in Microbiology as appropriate to their stage of training and needs.
- Liaise with the infection prevention nurses and DIPC and ensure day-to-day input as appropriate to operational infection prevention work including outbreak investigation and management, should this be required.
- Support the leads for antibiotic usage, Infection Control, and department and Pathology management as appropriate.
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Our Vision
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
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Our Ambition
Our ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement, and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
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Name: Ben Rogers
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Job title: Consultant and Clinical Lead
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Email address: Ben.Rogers@hhft.nhs.uk
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Telephone number: 01962 824118
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Name: Katie Smith
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Job title: Pathology Clinical Director
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Email address: katherine.smith1@hhft.nhs.uk
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Name: Rebecca Houghton
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Job title: Current post holder and Clinical Lead
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Email address: rebecca.houghton@hhft.nhs.uk
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