Clinical Research Fellow (Obesity)
Accepting applications until: 15-Sep-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 15-Sep-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (1 Year Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (40hrs per week)
Salary
- Salary
- £52,656 per annum excl LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Clinical Research Fellow)
Specialty
- Main area
- Diabetes and Endocrinology (Obesity)
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for an individual with appropriate skills to support research activities of the Department. The main focus of this role is obesity research but post holder will also provide medical support to Tier 3 and Tier 4 obesity services and help to develop Tier 3 and Tier 4 pathways of care across South London. This is an excellent opportunity to join a first-class team in an active and progressive central London teaching hospital environment.
The post offers an exciting and unique opportunity to gain research experience in diverse aspects of obesity. Training will be available in multi-professional aspects of obesity. The post holder will be encouraged to attend relevant national and international meetings.
The post would be ideal for a clinician at ST2 level looking to explore academic research opportunities and/or considering a career in the clinical obesity.
Post Holder will participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care. Also, in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
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The post holder will be responsible for supporting clinical trials in obesity and other diabetes and endocrine studies within the department.
There is an opportunity to develop leadership and teaching skills by supporting delivery of care pathways for Tier 3 and Tier 4 obesity services.
Working for our organisation
The Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology is part of the Clinical Directorate of Specialist Ambulatory and Medical Services. The Diabetes and Endocrinology Department is an important element of local and tertiary medical services. It is principally an outpatient speciality and treats approximately 20,000 patients each year including many tertiary referrals for diabetes, lipid, obesity, metabolic and endocrine disorders. The clinics are accommodated in modern purpose-built Day Centres on both the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ sites. The Diabetes service also provides community-based clinics. The department is currently involved in many exciting initiatives including supporting the establishment of Tier 3 and Tier 4 structured weight loss services across South London. You must be fully registered with the GMC and hold Licence to Practise and be on the Specialist Register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities:
Clinical:
The post holder will, together with colleagues, be responsible for the provision of services to the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to include:
The Clinical Research Fellow will be responsible for delivering studies in obesity under the supervision of the principal investigator. Full training in relevant clinical research skills including clinical trial conduct will be provided. To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
Research duties will include, but are not limited to:
· Screening and recruitment of potentially eligible patients in obesity research studies
· Consent and enrolment of participants
· Support, follow-up and clinical assessment of enrolled study participants and families according to the study protocol
· Liaison with R&D and collaborators including the driving assessment centre
· Maintain productive working relationships with the GSTT research nursing team
· Collection and quantitative/qualitative analysis of study data and maintenance of database
· Preparation of study documents, ethics applications, study materials and reports
· Presentation and dissemination of progress/findings via multiple media including manuscript publication
· Clinical trial management and conduct according to GCP principles
· Teaching and training of medical, nursing and allied staff as well as medical students.
· Research data entry
· Collection and processing of research samples
Other clinical duties will include, but are not limited to:
· Supporting development of clinical pathways for Tier 3 and Tier 4 obesity services
· Supporting delivery Tier 3 obesity services
· Supporting delivery of Tier 4 obesity services
· Attending and supporting obesity MDTs
There may be an opportunity to gain experience in other aspects of diabetes or endocrinology depending on the interest and experience of the post-holder.
Training of junior staff:
The post holder will take responsibility for the training and direction of junior staff allocated to him/her under aegis of the training plan that that post holder has agreed with their supervising consultant.
***Please note that this advert may close earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.***
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration and hold a licence to practise
Desirable criteria
- Specialty qualification, and/or higher degree (Obesity)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including confident and comfortable interaction with trial participants, clinical and research team members, and the broader research community
- GCP certification
Desirable criteria
- Fluent use of IT including email, word processing, spreadsheet, database
- Expertise in statistics and data analysis
- Knowledge of experimental techniques and study design
Research
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Prior experience of biomedical research involving human subjects
- Evidence of original research
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
Management
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
Desirable criteria
- Management training or qualification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claudia Coelho
- Job title
- Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207188888
- Additional information
For informal visit
Jiha Jeong
Lead Clinical Research nurse
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