Specialty Doctor in Medical Microbiology

Job overview

As an employee of the Humber Health Partnership, the post-holder will collaborate closely with  clinical, medical, professional, and managerial colleagues to deliver high-quality, patient-centred  care. Key responsibilities include: • Delivering an exemplary clinical service in line with best practices. • Providing effective leadership to junior doctors and medical students. • Adhering to Partnership policies, procedures, and service plans. • Ensuring clinical practice aligns with contractual obligations and operational priorities.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will work alongside our team of consultant medical microbiologists and work across the full breadth of medical microbiolgy service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities The appointee will work alongside Consultant Microbiologist colleagues to fulfil the following duties: Clinical Duties • Deliver timely expert advice on infection diagnosis, management, and prevention to hospital  and community clinicians. • Conduct ward rounds as required, with a focus on specialist units (e.g., ICU,  haematology/oncology, orthopaedics). Leadership & Governance • Lead on infection management within the hospital. • Attend monthly Directorate, audit, and clinical governance meetings. • Participate in Trust committees (e.g., Drugs & Therapeutics, Risk Management, Mortality  Reviews). Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) • Maintain collaboration with UKHSA Yorkshire & Humber and UKHSA East Midlands Consultants in Health Protection. • Play an active role in IPC and antimicrobial stewardship, including: o Attendance at NLAG/ULTH IPC Committee meetings. o Leading outbreak response and incident management. Antimicrobial Stewardship • Contribute to the development and review of the Path Links antimicrobial formulary and  prescribing guidelines, working alongside microbiologists and antimicrobial pharmacists.