Consultant in Microbiology

Job summary

This post is a unique opportunity to join our innovative and expanding infection department. We welcome applicants with either CCT in Microbiology or joint CCT in infectious Diseases and Microbiology. This is a replacement post offered at 10 PAs full time, though part time applicants with prorate on call will be considered.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to our 24-hour Clinical Infection Service alongside a strong multidisciplinary team including a consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist and Antimicrobial Pharmacy team.

Infection services in the trust encompass a wide range of complex and interesting cases including The Mid Yorkshire Regional Adult Burns Centre and Regional Childrens Burns Unit and Yorkshire Regional Spinal Injuries Centre.

Our Trust recently attained Teaching status. As part of our journey to University Hospital status, the Trust has a strategic priority to increase our number of clinical academic positions, we would welcome applicants who have an aspiration to adopt a clinical academic role in future.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work effectively alongside clinical colleagues to provide a comprehensive infection service including:

Provision of clinical advice from within the Trust, primary care and other healthcare colleagues in our region

Authorisation and interpretation of laboratory results

Supervision and liaison with the laboratory team

Working effectively with junior infection specialist colleagues, the pharmacy team and regional infection specialist colleagues

Infection prevention and control advice - with opportunity to take up Trust infection control roles e.g. DIPC

Liaising with the local UKHSA team for notifiable diseases/organisms and participation in mandatory surveillance

Multidisciplinary meetings including haematology, orthopaedics, infection control, regional burns centre and intensive care

Developing services including outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), undergraduate teaching and research

On-call duties currently shared on a 1 in 4 basis

Job responsibilities

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

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