Job summary
- Main area
- Microbiology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6193341MH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £52,530 - £82,400 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Microbiology Specialty Doctor
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
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
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit a Specialty Doctor to work in the Microbiology Pathology Department at North Tyneside General Hospital.
The successful candidate will be joining a team of four consultants and one specialist trainee. They will be encouraged to complete FRCPath Microbiology and supported for CESR. There is also opportunity to move to a Specialist Grade post in microbiology subject to demonstration of satisfactory progression.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance, regardless of their personal circumstances. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time, will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with consultant colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will participate in the provision of clinical microbiology services to the population of Northumberland and North Tyneside.
The Specialty Doctor role will include authorisation of the laboratory results, supporting laboratory staff by providing advice and guidance, supporting clinical staff by providing advice on managing various infection, advising infection control team, critical care ward round, ward round or communicating with clinical team about important results like blood culture, attending MDT, supporting the team with audits, research education and quality improvement process.
The post holder will participate in the varied clinical microbiology workload shared between the consultants.
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
The successful applicant for this post will work closely with all the consultant medical Microbiologists to provide a comprehensive, efficient and cost-effective clinical microbiology, virology and infection control service. There will be a laboratory induction period to enable familiarisation with the department and the routine laboratory service.
The successful applicant will be expected to take part in:
- All aspects of local routine laboratory processes, including a pre-analytical understanding of test requesting, specimen processing and post-analytical interpretation and reporting of results.
- Close liaison with microbiology laboratory team and address any queries that they may have related to the specimen processing
- Provision of clinical advice in response to verbal and written clinical enquiries from both the acute Trust and community sources.
- Regular Microbiology and Antimicrobial ward rounds, including reviewing patients with significant test results (blood culture, CSF etc.) or with complex infections, daily Critical Care ward rounds, and other regular specialty ward rounds including Antimicrobial Stewardship.
- Close liaison with the Infection Control Team and Public Health
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the GMC at time of appointment.
- Applicants shall have completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis), at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme (e.g. MD) in a relevant specialty, or as a fixed-term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or shall have equivalent experience and competencies.
- Applicants that are either partially or non-UK trained will be required to show evidence of equivalence to UK qualifications.
- Appropriate experience in microbiology specialty
- Post-graduate qualifications in microbiology specialty.
Desirable criteria
- FRCPath part 1
- FRCPath (part 1 and part 2)
- MRCP
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Surya Banerjee
- Job title
- Microbiology Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Visiting arrangements
We strongly encourage interested applicants to visit the Trust and meet prospective colleagues.
Arrangements for visiting may be made by contacting:
Sarah Mankin - Pathology Team Secretary
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