As a consultant in medical microbiology, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical in managing HIV/AIDS and other blood‑borne infections such as hepatitis B and C, and in controlling the spread of infectious diseases. You will focus on reducing infections in hospitals—including hospital ‘super bugs’ such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile—as well as current and emerging viruses worldwide such as SARS and avian flu.
Role: Microbiology Consultant
Salary: £111,430 to £148,064
Shifts: 40 hours per week
Location: Dumfries
Development and opportunities
As a Microbiology Consultant, you will be dedicated to imparting complex knowledge and championing skill enhancement throughout the laboratory and clinics. You will lead by example, encouraging uptake of the wide range of development and support packages available, and mentoring your fellow healthcare professionals in their continuous professional development.
Patient focus
Your role requires the ability to demonstrate how specialist skills and communication combine to ensure effective clinical infection management. Your scientific curiosity, strong leadership, and wealth of knowledge will help demonstrate how research and teaching can be a priority without compromising essential day‑to‑day work.
General Key Skills
* Quick thinking
* Patience and ability to teach, coach, and mentor
* Excellent attention to detail
* Systematic approach to tasks and delegation
* Excellent time‑keeping
* Pro‑active research and academia orientation
* Empathy and understanding
* Flexible attitude
* Dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
* Active listening skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
* Provide highly complex advice to consultants, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals on guidance and management of patients with infectious diseases.
* Make clinical decisions involving the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of highly complex data, including antibiotic resistance analysis, test investigations, and results.
* Take responsibility for regular visits to ITU and regular ward rounds.
* Supervise day‑to‑day diagnostic methods, examination, and analysis of complex specimens.
* Participate in the out‑of‑hours advisory service on infection diagnosis and management as well as infection prevention issues.
* Work with infection control teams and DIPCs on a local or regional basis, liaising with relevant health protection staff to investigate and prevent communicable diseases in the community.
* Assist in the investigation and control of community outbreaks.
* Provide advice in developing clinical guidelines, investigation protocols, laboratory SOPs, and guidance on the appropriate use of antimicrobials.
* Communicate clinical information to explain findings, diagnosis, and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
* Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision‑making.
* Lead a multidisciplinary team where appropriate.
* Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
* Perform basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
* Help teach and train other junior doctors, medical students, and members of the multidisciplinary team.
Qualifications
* MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
* 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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