Clinical Research Fellow

Job description
Job summary

The Clinical Research Fellow will support the recruitment, assessment and participant visits in a controlled trial designed to evaluate new approaches to the diagnosis and management of food allergy in children. The Fellow will also support other research activities within the Children’s Clinical Research Facility at Imperial’s Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) and be based in the dynamic research group of Professor Paul Turner.

Duties and responsibilities

You will be placed within a highly supportive environment and will be provided with a cutting-edge research project under experienced supervision and mentorship.

It is expected that you will:

• recruit patients from St Mary’s Hospital
• be responsible for accurate record keeping and documentation of results.
• participate in research meetings and internal seminars
• have the opportunity to prepare and present reports and papers arising from your research
• carry out teaching duties and assist in the development of research proposals and funding bids
• Comply with relevant college policies

Essential requirements

• Must hold GMC (General Medical Council) registration
• Hold a degree in Medicine
• Minimum experience equivalent to ST3 in paediatrics
• Experience of supervising oral food challenges in children or adults
• Appropriate clinical skills in medicine

Further information

This is a Full Time and Fixed Term post with option to go Part Time (0.8 FTE) for 1 year based at the St. Mary’s Campus.

Salary upon appointment will also include an additional London Weighting Allowance of £2,162 per annum (pro rata if applicable).

Please note, if you’re not on an approved NHS training programme you will be appointed on the Clinical staff not holding consultant contracts salary scale.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact  Professor Paul Turner p.turner@imperial.ac.uk

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level,will be required for the successful candidate.Further information about the DBS disclosure process can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs/ or by telephoning 03000 200 190. You may also wish to view the College’s DBS webpage for policy statements on the Recruitment and Employment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Use, Retention & Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information.

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA),which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see:  esearch-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/”>https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research / 

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