Clinical Research Fellow

Job overview

This 12 month data science fellow post is an exciting opportunity to join the clinical team at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, UCLH, and spend 50% of your time on a research project where you will create and curate a comprehensive structured digital repository of granular historical clinical data from patients who have attended the emergency tropical walk in service with acute illness following recent travel overseas or with specific risk exposures for zoonotic and communicable disease. Your remaining clinical time will be spent working in the infectious diseases department at UCLH where you will provide inpatient care on the infectious diseases ward, and also outpatient clinic cover in the tropical walk in clinic. In this post you will have the chance to develop your research and leadership skills, and to interact with the various data teams at UCLH/UCL. Our aim is to create a valuable resource from historic data that will seamlessly integrate with the comprehensive data capture potential of the fully integrated electronic health record system (Epic) that was introduced at UCLH in April 2019. You will have opportunities to conduct research projects that demonstrate the utility of this resource.

Main duties of the job

The clinical component of this post will consist of both inpatient and outpatient work. The inpatient work will include the day-to-day management of a broad range of inpatients with infection related problems, clinical consultations of patients under other medical and surgical teams, and opportunities to see emergency admissions referred for infection specialty care. UCLH has a wide range of medical and surgical specialties, and also provides highly specialised infection care for diseases including HIV, malaria and hydatid disease. The outpatient work will primarily consist of clinical cover of the emergency tropical walk-in clinic. This is a unique service in the UK that provides urgent clinical assessment to acutely symptomatic returning travellers. This service is well attended by a very diverse range of patients returning from countries all over the tropics. This is an invaluable learning experience for any junior doctor who has an interest in infectious diseases, travel health or tropical medicine. The research component of the post is outlined in the job description.

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.

Please note, due to anticipated high volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application

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