Clinical Research Fellow in Metabolic Bone Disease

Job overview

This is a full-time NHS training post in a tertiary paediatric endocrinology and diabetes service. The applicant will join a busy and progressive team delivering paediatric endocrinology and bone services within Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond.

The fellow post is funded as part of the nationally funded, highly specialised service for complex and atypical osteogenesis imperfecta.

This full-time tertiary training post is for a maximum of 2 years, designed to train the applicant to tertiary level, as defined by ESPE and BSPED (www.bsped.org.uk). However, it is not recognised for training by the Postgraduate Dean and does not form part of the paediatric run-through training programme. The applicant must have reached CCT in paediatrics or completed stage ST6 (or equivalent) in paediatric training. Therefore, this post is either a post-CCT fellowship or an Out Of Programme Experience (OOPE) post, subject to approval by the applicant’s local deanery. Applicants are expected to have previous paediatric endocrine exposure, and research experience and interest. The post has two main components; 50% of the time is committed to outpatient clinic commitment covering paediatric endocrinology and metabolic bone disease, including highly specialised clinics; the other 50% is for clinical research. There is no commitment to diabetes, acute/general paediatrics, out of duty hours hospital@night or on-call involved.

Main duties of the job

There is no on-call commitment for this post.

The successful applicant is expected to take active part in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and the training of other relevant staff groups. This includes the mentoring of junior medical staff.

Clinical Research is one of the strengths of this Department and the metabolic bone team. 50% of the applicant’s time is committed to clinical and translational research. The applicant is expected to develop personal research studies, assist in recruitment of clinical trials and present their work at national and international meetings.

The appointee will be expected to participate in all aspects of the Clinical Governance structure developed by the Trust to monitor, maintain and develop the quality and effectiveness of care.  Funding is available for approved study leave as defined in the Trust’s study leave policy.

The appointee will be expected to provide cross-cover for endocrine specialist registrars/ fellows during periods of leave and short-term sickness absence.

CLINICAL:

Clinically, the applicant will share in the provision of the outpatient service for Endocrinology, Metabolic Bone and Osteogenesis Imperfecta service, Joint Clinics, and support medical staff on the Medical Day Care Unit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

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