Senior Clinical Research Fellow in HIV and Infectious Diseases

Job overview

The postholder will provide day to day support of on-going clinical trials and other studies. Their overall supervision will be directed by Prof Burns, but on a day-to-day basis they will work primarily with HIV and Vaccine clinical trial research teams. The postholder will be central to the effective running of the wider group. An exact breakdown of percentage time spent in different duties is impossible to given the fluctuating nature of clinic visits for clinical research however it is anticipated that the successful applicant will undertake 3-4 clinical trial clinics per week seeing patients participating in clinical trials as per trial protocol. Outside of these responsibilities it is expected that the post-holder will develop their own clinical research project as well as participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.  If they do not already hold a higher degree then creating pilot data/fellowship application to register for a PHD would be encouraged. The clinical research project(s) should be within HIV/infectious diseases/STIs and related conditions and will be under the guidance and supervision of senior academic staff.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Day to day support of on-going clinical trials and other studies.
• Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
• Development of own clinical research projects.
• Under Consultant supervision, to be responsible for the clinical care of patients attending the HIV/ID service including those participating in the clinical trials liaising with colleagues to ensure they receive the best standard of clinical care.
• Participation in HIV/ID on call rota (optional & subject to experience).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

More detailed job description and person specification documents are available in the documents section.