Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has a position available for a Locum Consultant in Infectious Disease/Medical Microbiology to join the team based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. This post is a Permanent post, with a negotiable start date. The successful candidate will work across all sites including Wycombe & Amersham Hospitals.
This post is a replacement post and the post-holder will share in the provision of a first‑class clinical microbiology service to the areas covered by the laboratory, along with the other three Consultant Microbiologists: Dr Ruby Devi, Dr Karthiga Sithamparanathan and Dr Jane Democratis.
Over the next few years, we are aiming to broaden the scope of microbiology services at our Trust and are therefore particularly interested to hear from jointly trained candidates who would be interested in helping us to drive transformation and service improvements for our patients.
All candidates MUST hold a FULL GMC registration with a Licence to practice in the UK and be on the specialist register or be within 6 months of CCT.
The post is covered by the Terms and Conditions of the new Consultant Contract (England 2003).
The successful candidate will be required to work across all three main Hospital sites at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust: Stoke Mandeville, Wycombe & Amersham Hospitals.
The successful candidate will be required to live within 10 miles of the ‘principal place of work’ at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, or 30 minutes travelling time when on call.
The appointee will be expected to cover for colleagues’ absence from duty on the basis of agreed arrangements in the department and with the employing Trust.
You will be one of four consultants working in a rota to provide clinical support to all hospital sites and local GPs. This includes supporting our OPAT team to manage patients in the community, including weekly virtual OPAT rounds – when covering OPAT, attending orthopaedic, Spinal Surgery, Spinal Injuries and Haematology MDT meetings and undertaking daily ICU ward rounds.
The Department also has an ST3 Microbiology/Infectious Diseases trainee from the Oxford Thames Valley deanery rotation, every 6 months, working Mon‑Fri 9‑5 pm. Since September 2025, the department has also been supporting the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) scheme for overseas trainees, and one Specialist Registrar is working in the department.
Benefits
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Clinical Practice and Liaison
* Provision of a comprehensive infection service. This includes direct clinical care and proactive liaison in a timely manner with consultant colleagues, other hospital staff, medical microbiology colleagues, Genito‑Urinary Medicine (GUM) physicians and lead respiratory physicians for tuberculosis management, general practitioners, antibiotic pharmacists, IPC nurses, health protection consultants and CCDCs concerning the diagnosis and management of patients, and control and prevention of infection.
* Regular departmental visits and commitments to specific units including Intensive Care, Haematology/Oncology, Medical/Surgical admission units, regular and ad hoc visits to wards, and departmental commitment to IPC.
* Regular departmental commitments to committees such as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Group, Pathology Business meetings, Microbiology Consultants Senior Laboratory Staff meetings and IPCT meetings.
* Regular commitments to Orthopaedic multidisciplinary team (MDT), Spinal Injuries MDT, Spinal Surgery MDT and Haematology MDT meetings.
The appointee will take an equal (or appropriate share of) responsibility for departmental commitments.
The Trust has an OPAT team which is closely supervised by the Consultant Microbiologists, and Dr Devi is the lead Microbiologist for this service, while Dr Jane Democratis is the Antimicrobial Stewardship lead for the Trust.
Infection Prevention and Control lead doctor role is provided by a locum microbiologist as agreed with the Microbiology department and the IPC team.
Dr Sithamparanathan is the Microbiologist who leads for Serology and Virology.
For further details of this role, please review the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Apr 2026.
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