Consultant
Main area
Infection & Immunity- Microbiology
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
287-LCL-33-25-A
Department name
LUH - Medical Staffing
Site
Liverpool Clinical Laboratories
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/08/2025 10:00
Job Overview
Interviews for this post will be held in early September
This is a replacement post due to retirement within the Clinical Microbiology team.
We are a group of 13 consultants working across the fantastic city of Liverpool who deliver the clinical microbiology service to over 2000 inpatients, and the surrounding community services. There are many tertiary specialist units who require our expertise, including maxillofacial, bone marrow transplant, cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery.
We work closely with our Infectious Diseases colleagues and the Tropical School of Medicine is located by the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
The laboratory is housed in a new, state of the art building on site at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. Working alongside the laboratory is an integral part of this role
We want to work with dynamic, forward-thinking individuals who can deliver a clinically facing microbiology role. They will need to be able to work and engage with the laboratory and clinical team within the department and across the Trusts that we cover.
Main duties of the job
To work with colleagues to provide a clinical infection service including consultation service, to sites served by Liverpool Clinical Laboratories.
Responsibilities
Clinical responsibilities will predominantly be providing a clinical infection consultation service on Aintree and Royal sites. The Consultation Service is a multidisciplinary team comprising of Microbiologists, Infectious Diseases Physicians, Infection Trainees, Antibiotic Pharmacists, Scientist Training Programme Trainees, OPAT Nurses, Sepsis Nurses and IV Access Nurses. The main duties include:
- Attendance at twice weekly virtual ward rounds and MDTs
- Ward based reviews of complex infection cases (via referral system)
- ITU and HDU Ward Rounds
- Contribution to the OPAT service (ward reviews, follow up, virtual ward rounds)
- Supervision and training for infection trainees
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The following is a summary of the requirements of the job, however please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details:
- Give clinical advice to staff across the Liverpool health economy face to face and via telephone
- Lead the clinical consults service including ITU ward rounds
- Engage in ward rounds and specialty MDTs
- Work with the OPAT team at Aintree Hospital
- Assist in the delivery of the AMS strategy for the Trusts
- Engagement and liaison with the microbiology laboratory to ensure high quality work is being carried out and is compliant with UKAS accreditations
- Support the IPC teams on all sites
- Supervision and education for medical trainees and STPs
- Take part in the on call service, which currently stands at 1:13
- There are opportunities to deliver on site clinical microbiology to other Trusts in the city.
- Work with the Infectious Diseases team based at The Royal Liverpool Hospital
- Work with the operational team to drive service and quality improvement projects
Person specification
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
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English) suitable for patients, relatives and health care professionals
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Peer reviewed publications Research grants
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of inpatient and outpatient management of infection and ward based infection consultations
- Experience of laboratory microbiology
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
- Effective teaching skills suitable for undergraduate & postgraduate teaching, supervision & appraisa
Desirable criteria
- Experience in supporting a microbiology laboratory service
- Experience of overseeing laboratory quality assurance / quality improvement
- Teacher training
- Prior supervisory experience/training
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC), or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
- CCT in either Medical Microbiology OR Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview)
- Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), 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
- GMC Register
- MBBS/MBChB
- State Registration as Clinical Scientist (HCPC)
- BSc (Hons) degree or assessed equivalent knowledge/ expertise
- Doctorate (PhD) or equivalent
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologist by examination (FRCPath) (or equivalent), as required for Medical Consultant posts within Pathology
- FRCPath or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher Medical Degree PhD/MD
- Other subspecialty interest
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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