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About
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.
Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk
Watch how OUH goes about delivering compassionate excellence on the ouhnhs YouTube channel
Consultant in Clinical infection and GIM
Closed for applications on: 9-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Address
- Headington
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX3 9DU
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (oncall)
Salary
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 Not defined
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- Infectious Diseases
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
One full time substantive post (10 PAs) as consultant in Clinical Infection and General Internal Medicine (GIM) is available at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post-holder is expected to have full and specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) and to hold CCTs in Infectious diseases and in General Internal Medicine, or equivalent (e.g. CESR), or to be eligible for CCTs and specialist registration within six months of interview.
The applicant will be expected to take on roles in the clinical infection service. The components of this are flexible, worked as a rotation with colleagues and assigned by mutual negotiation. They may include bedside infection consults across the Trust, outpatients (general ID, HIV, OPAT, TB, bone infection MDT clinic, diabetic foot infection MDT clinic, hepatitis and chronic fatigue), and inpatient care on the bone infection unit (BIU) and infectious diseases ward. Infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship are integrated into all these components, led by the infection control and antimicrobial stewardship teams.
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Clinical responsibilities will be divided between out-patients services (ID, HIV, OPAT, TB, bone infection, diabetic foot infection, hepatitis and chronic fatigue), in-patient infection service (ID, BIU), infection consults, and acute general medicine. Clinical duties will be based at the John Radcliffe Hospital (infection consults, outpatients, infectious diseases in-patient work), the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (Bone Infection Unit), the Churchill Hospital (diabetic foot infection clinic and service, haem-onc/transplant infection consult work), and the Horton General Hospital (ID/AGM service). Infection services across the Trust are delivered by a large multi-disciplinary team of consultant colleagues with different specialist areas, and the appointee will be eligible to take part in multiple aspects of the service, including in-patient care according to their competency and experience. The job plan will be agreed with the clinical lead. The post holder will be allocated a mentor by the clinical lead. The post holder will take part in an on-call rota for which the predictable out of hours component is incorporated into the job plan. Consideration of time off in lieu (such as for unpredictable out of hours working) will be given.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have an active role in delivering infection control advice, antimicrobial stewardship and conducting case investigations on all sites. They will be expected to make an active contribution to the production of relevant policies within the terms of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance).
Infection Control is everyone’s responsibility. All staff, both clinical and non-clinical, are required to adhere to the Trusts’ Infection Prevention and Control Policies and make every effort to maintain high standards of infection control at all times thereby reducing the burden of Healthcare Associated Infections.
All staff employed by the Trust have the following key responsibilities:
- Staff must decontaminate their hands prior to and after direct patient contact or contact with the patient’s surroundings.
- Staff members have a duty to attend mandatory infection control training provided for them by the Trust.
- Staff members who develop an infection (other than common colds and illness) that may be transmittable to patients have a duty to contact Occupational Health.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- MRCP (UK)
- GMC registered with licence to practice in the UK
- GMC Specialist Registration with CCTs in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine, or equivalent qualifications (e.g. CESR) which enable specialist registration Or eligibility for these CCTs and specialist registration within six months of interview
Desirable criteria
- Higher Medical Degree
- Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide inpatient and outpatient management of infectious diseases and ward- based infection consultations at consultant level
- Ability to manage acute unselected medical takes at consultant level
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
- A strong and demonstrable commitment to the organisation and delivery of teaching.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in high consequence infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, complicated bone and joint infections, outpatient antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), tropical medicine.
- Experience working in an infectious diseases unit at consultant level
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of consultant in a teaching hospital
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Good written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Evidence of having participated in post graduate research projects and evidence demonstrating critical thinking
Desirable criteria
- PhD in an infection related subject
- Peer reviewed publications
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Transport: The ability to travel between sites (in Oxford and Banbury)
- Residence: Within 45 minutes of John Radcliffe Hospital while on call
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Charlie Woodrow
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Infectious Diseases
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Sudhir Singh Clinical Director for Acute Medicine
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