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Job overview
The Post-COVID Service at UCLH is a nationally and internationally recognised clinical service that cares for patients who experience long-term effects of COVID infection or other viral infection.
We are a multidisciplinary service lead by physicians with expertise in post viral illness with multispeciality input from consultant colleagues in Respiratory, Infectious Disease, Neurology, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Rheumatology and Heamatology departments. Working within the team will provide a broad medical training, extensive consultant supervision, and will position the clinical fellow strongly for applying for, for example, IMT training programmes.
The therapy team are key to patient assessment and management and include senior physiotherapists and occupational therapists and psychologists to enable holistic care of multisystem illness.
Main duties of the job
The clinical fellow will gain useful training in understanding integrated MDT management of complex scenarios and of working in an integrated pathway with community services and primary care who also contribute significantly to care in Long COVID and other post viral illness. Of note the service is increasingly evolving so that patients can be referred for assessment and treatment for any suspected post viral illnesses and works collaboratively with other similar services in North Central London.
Digital innovation has been adopted to support triage and rehabilitation and the service has a strong focus on capture of quality clinical data to support learning and research in this new field.
The post-COVID Service is actively engaged in developing and testing clinical hypotheses regarding the mechanism and treatment of post-COVID syndrome, and clinicians from the service have played an active role in the development of National Guidelines, and research programmes.
It is anticipated that the clinical fellow would be able to contribute to a number of ongoing pieces of clinical research underway in the clinic.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post registration experience (completed FY2 training).
- Familiarity with principle of clinical research including Good Clinical Practice.
- Experience of phlebotomy and cannulation
- NHS clinical experience – completed FY2 level- and named Responsible Officer
Desirable
- Experience of receiving consent
- Experience in the conduct of clinical trials/observational research
- Experience of formal/ informal teaching of patients and staff
Other requirements
Essential
- Able to work flexibly on occasion
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates commitment and preparedness
- Enthusiastic nature
- Demonstrates honesty, integrity and appreciation of ethical dilemmas
- Reliability – demonstrates punctuality, attendance and sense of responsibility
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to prioritise workload
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills; able to speak English to level required to fulfil job requirements
- Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality
- Computer literacy
Desirable
- Experience of statistical analysis, including using programming languages such as R or Python
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Medical qualification MBBS and Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practise
Desirable
- Valid ALS training certification
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This advert is for Clinical Fellow (Locally Employed Doctor) with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Junior Medical doctor General Internal Medicine role. The advertised salary is £54,499 per annum + London Weighting. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Standard duration of fellowship for training purposes). The application deadline is 29 Jun 2026.
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