About this role
Job summary
This post would join a consultant team with diverse interests and expertise sharing in both inpatient and outpatient care including a choice of speciality clinics (including Tuberculosis, ambulatory ID, HIV, OPAT, viral hepatitis). The post holder will be based at Northwick Park and will contribute to our highly rated undergraduate and postgraduate training as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer for Imperial College and will have the opportunity to contribute to our clinical research programme.This appointment will also add to the current team of acute medicine and specialty physicians supporting Acute Medicine.
Main duties of the job
This is a new post is needed to support the increasingly busy and important IDAR service. The consultant role will be to deliver consultant led clinics, support the IDAR registrar and specialist nurses and lead on service development, clinical governance and research (relevant to the IDAR service). In addition the IDAR consultant will act the natural point for contact for the referral registrar working in flexible with the other consultants and coordinating with the ward teams to ensure ID patients are looked after by ID. In order to fund this post we are starting a Travel Clinic service for public and staff. This post will lead on the design of this service and its implementation in close liaison with the IDAR nursing team.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for further details on the role and responsibilities of this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
CCT in General Internal Medicine or with 6 months of obtaining
Desirable
MD or PhD
Qualifications Essential
CCT in Infectious Diseases or with 6 months of obtaining
Desirable
Travel Medicine qualification
Knowledge Essential
Ability to take full & independent responsibility for clinical care of complex acute medicine patients
Desirable
Other ID sub-specialty interest
Personal skills Essential
Ability to organise and prioritise workload
Desirable
Can demonstrate qualities of leadership
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Address Northwick Park Hospital
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3UJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)