Consultant in Infectious Diseases

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking to recruit a Consultant in Infectious Diseases. Successful candidates will join a team of 2 Consultants. The post will have a special interest in Infectious Diseases. The Directorate provides services across 3 hospital sites within the county of Worcestershire. The candidate will benefit from working within a friendly and experienced team of Community IV nurses, ACP's, Pharmacists.
As a Trust we are actively involved in developing the training program for students from the Three Counties Medical School based in Worcester which opened in September 2023. We look forward to establishing links with the new Medical School in addition to well-established relationships with the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick.
As part of the Consultant Advisory Appointment Committee, shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide a 5 minute presentation on the topic:
How can in-reach into ED and Acute Medicine for Infectious Diseases be optimised?
Interested candidates are invited to contact Dr Mark Roberts to discuss the opportunity.
AAC Date 22nd May 2025(Face to face)
This Job Description was approved by the Royal College of Physicians on 27th March 2025.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited for a full time (10 PA) Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine to actively develop and enhance these services within Worcestershire. This is a new, full time post to complement the existing 2 Infectious Diseases consultants in the county.
It is envisaged that the post will provide an excellent opportunity to significantly build on the current service in Infectious Diseases with particular emphasis on providing a lead in the management of infections through our emergency departments and the further development of outpatient parenteral antibiotic services (supported by 2x nurse practitioner). There are well-developed outpatient services for HIV medicine (supported by 3x CNS), hepatitis (supported by 2x CNS), tuberculosis, bone and joint infections and travel medicine.
This post will further facilitate a bacteraemia service and promote antibiotic stewardship on both acute sites (WRH and AH) through close liaison with our microbiologists.
General Internal Medicine for this post is based at WRH with a 1:6 consultant of the week rota on the Infectious Diseases ward.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people


• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients


• Best use of resources


• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description

Job responsibilities
This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of
the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.

• A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.


• The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.


• The post-holder will provide support to the A& E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital.


• The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.


• MRCP


• Entry on Specialist Register in Infectious Diseases


• (or CCT expected within 6 months of interview date) via


• CCT or CESR (CP)


• CESR or European Community Rights


• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent

Desirable

• Higher degree

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Infectious Diseases


• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty


• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients


• Expertise in sub-specialty

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively


• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service


• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities


• Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team


• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit

Desirable

• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate


• Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines


• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work in a team


• Enquiring, critical approach to work


• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies


• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education

Desirable

• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local regional or national levels

Other requirements

Essential

• An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues


• Able to meet the travel requirements of the job and return to the hospital within 30 minutes when on call

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