Consultant in Infection

We are looking to recruit a part-time Consultant in Infection (Consultant with Specialist Training in Microbiology and CCT in Microbiology or Combined Infection Training or joint CCT in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology or equivalent) to work within an evolving Infection Service based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LTHTR). The post will be from February 2027, we will be looking at interviewing towards the end of November 2026. Do you have what we are looking for to join the Team? The Consultants offer a 24-hour advisory service to clinicians and other clients of the service. The size and nature of the Trust inevitably means that this is a busy and demanding role, involving response to numerous telephone requests for advice, ward rounds, multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and clinical liaison, both ward-and telephone-based. Participation in the joint ward round with the Antimicrobial Pharmacist and rounds on other specialist unit's e.g. critical care, Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Surgery, Nephrology, will be agreed among the consultants according to personal interest & may rotate between the consultants with mutual agreement. Currently some of the ward rounds and MDTs are taking place through Microsoft Teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will need to:

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical Qualification
• FRCPath or equivalent qualification
• Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the GMC (or eligible for registration within 6 months of interview)
• Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), in microbiology or joint CCT in infectious diseases and microbiology, or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
• Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT

Desirable

• MRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification.
• Other Relevant higher degrees

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Trained Clinical Supervisor
• Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in the management of Infection and laboratory liaison.

Desirable

• Trained Educational Supervisor
• Experience of Infection Prevention, Antibiotic Review Service and Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy.
• Experience in other medical specialities.

Management

Essential

• Evidence of Clinical Leadership
• Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development

Desirable

• Attendance at recognised management course.

Research and Development

Essential

• Evidence of interest in personal development e.g. through research and/or publications

Health

Essential

• Meets professional health requirements in line with GMC Standards/ Good Medical Practice

Personal

Essential

• Proven evidence of effective communication skills with examples
• Good organisation skills with examples
• Works well within a multidisciplinary environment
• Resident within 30 minutes travel time to Preston / Chorley.

Desirable

• Car owner / Driver

About the employer

The Microbiology Laboratory at Royal Preston Hospital was built in 1989 is situated in the Department of Pathology at Royal Preston Hospital. It is accredited for its clinical work by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (Excluding Andrology). Equipment includes BactAlert Blood Culture System, Vitek 2 organism identification and antibiotic sensitivity testing system, Maldi-Tof mass spectrometer for organism identification and UF5000i urine analysers in bacteriology. In virology, a range of molecular testing is undertaken using three Roche cobas 4800 automated extraction platforms, the Hologic Panther and Cepheid GeneXpert. Automated serological analysis is performed with the Roche Cobas e601 analyser for high volume screening supported by Diasorin Liaison XL for other investigations. The Department is accredited for the training of BMS staff and is approved for the training of medically qualified Microbiologists. Specialist Trainees of appropriate experience participate in the rota at a level compliant with European Working Time Directive and are always supervised by a named consultant. Currently this means that on occasions, the consultant will be second on-call, supporting the Specialist Trainee who is first on-call.