Locum Consultant Medical Microbiologist or Locum Consultant Medical Microbiologist with Infectious Diseases

Salary: Locum Consultant (£111,430 - £148,064)
Job closing date: 07/12/2026
Job Type: Medical and Dental
Location: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Employment type: Fixed-term
Hours Per Week: 40
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
Department: Laboratory Medicine

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

NHS Lothian
Reference: 264799
Closing Date: 07/12/2026
Interview Date: 16th December, 1pm-5pm

NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society. We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Requirements

• Full GMC Registration, a licence to practise and eligibility for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register.
• UK-trained applicants should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview.
• Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded.
• Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
• CCT in Microbiology or Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, or be within 6 months at interview date of achieving this.

The Role
Applicants are welcome for a 6 month locum Consultant post to join a multi-disciplinary team providing an infection service covering the whole of Lothian. Our goal is to make best use of available expertise in the management of infection for optimal patient care in our region. To achieve this we aim to develop multi-disciplinary teams comprising colleagues with specialist knowledge in microbiology, virology, infectious diseases and infection prevention and control at each of our base hospitals.

The post holder will play a significant role in the clinical infection diagnostic team at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) based at the Little France campus in Edinburgh. This includes provision of specialist infection advice for the adult critical care unit, alongside infection service input for the RIE site, community hospitals and primary care. The post holder will also contribute to the delivery of the infection consult service on-site and antimicrobial stewardship. Work at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh and St Johns Hospital, Livingston, may also be required.

We have excellent working relationships with clinical teams and have ongoing collaboration with researchers in Edinburgh and beyond. Specialist Virology services, along with five Scottish reference laboratories, dealing with Mycobacteria, STEC, Bacterial Sexually-Transmitted Infections, Human Papilloma Virus and Viral Haemorrhagic Fever, are also based in the department of Laboratory Medicine at the RIE. The laboratories have full UKAS ISO 15189:2022 accreditation.

On-call frequency for Microbiology is currently 1 in 11 / 1 in 12 with prospective cover and a 3% availability supplement. The post is available for 6 months from 15th February to 31st July 2027.

More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via the email address and link below. The vacancy is full-time, but part-time or job-share applicants will be considered.

Contact
For informal enquiries and arrangements to visit the Department, please contact Dr Naomi Gadsby, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of Specialty for Microbiology, naomi.gadsby@nhs.scot.

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