Clinical Research Fellow - Trust Doctor in Medicine

UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust); London; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic multidisciplinary team as a Clinical Research Fellow at a leading NHS trust. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to clinical trials in infectious diseases, ensuring participant safety and compliance with ethical standards. Ideal candidates will have experience in assessing acutely unwell patients and possess ALS certification. Collaborate with specialists in a supportive environment dedicated to world-class research and patient care. With a commitment to sustainability and flexible working, this position is perfect for those looking to make a significant impact in healthcare.

Benefits

Interest-free season ticket loan

Free independent support

Large retail discounts

Cycle to work scheme

On-site accommodation

Access to arts and heritage programs

Qualifications

• Minimum two years' post-registration clinical experience required.
• Familiarity with UK healthcare systems and clinical governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support vaccine studies and clinical trials.
• Conduct comprehensive medical assessments and ensure participant safety.

Skills

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Clinical Research

Phlebotomy

Cannulation

Communication Skills

Education

MBBS with Full GMC Registration

GCP Training

Job description

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Clinical Research Fellow - Trust Doctor in Medicine

NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 3 (MT03)

Main area Research and Development Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 3 (MT03) Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Supporting clinical trials lasting 12 months from August 2025) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (There is no out-of-hours commitment for this role.) Job ref 309-UCLH-6250

Site UCLH Town London Salary £49,909 per annum plus London weighting Salary period Yearly Closing 16/05/2025 23:59

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic multidisciplinary team conducting clinical trials in infectious diseases and general internal medicine. The successful candidate will play a key role as an investigator in drug development and clinical trials, ensuring participant safety and compliance with ethical and regulatory standards. Key responsibilities include assessing participant suitability, obtaining consent, conducting comprehensive medical assessments (including physical and exams), interpreting ECGs and lab tests, and addressing safety concerns. Experience in acutely unwell patient assessment and ALS certification is essential.

Based primarily at the NIHR UCLH Clinical Research Facility, the post holder will also support neurology and cardiology trials. Applicants with broad medical backgrounds, including GIM, Infectious Diseases, General Practice, and Emergency Medicine, are encouraged to apply.

The post offers access to specialist resources in Clinical Virology, Microbiology, and Infectious Diseases and involves collaboration with clinical teams, fellows, nurses, and biomedical scientists. Ideal candidates will have outpatient experience and strong communication skills with primary care providers.

While the post covers basic salary, additional payment is available for out-of-hours cover when patients stay after 5 pm.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work as a Clinical Research Fellow taking responsibility for the coordination and support of vaccine studies and other relevant clinical trials with a focus on infectious diseases, such as mpox and influenza. The successful candidate will ensure strict adherence to trial protocols and regulatory standards, conduct thorough medical assessments, and maintain accurate research records. They will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, provide medical oversight during trials, and manage patient care in compliance with ethical and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.

Daily duties include evaluating trial data, managing adverse events, and ensuring informed patient consent. The post holder will engage with primary care GPs, sponsors, and research teams to ensure effective communication. The post holder will respond to urgent medical queries and clinical emergencies in line with ALS RESUS council guidelines and will facilitate regular emergency scenario readiness testing.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

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

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

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Medical qualification MBBS with Full GMC Registration. NB: Non-UK trained doctors must be on the GMC register by date of appointment.
• Valid Resus Council Advanced Life Support (ALS) training certification
• Completed Foundations Training with Foundation competencies or equivalent
• GCP trained by start date

Experience

• A minimum of two years' post-registration clinical experience, including experience in outpatient care. Applicants must demonstrate familiarity with UK healthcare systems, clinical governance standards, and outpatient clinical practice, either through work undertaken within the UK or through equivalent experience in a comparable healthcare setting.
• Familiarity with principle of clinical research including Good Clinical Practice.
• Experience of phlebotomy and cannulation
• Experience of receiving consent
• Demonstrable evidence of undertaking capacity assessments in line with MCA 2005.
• Familiarity with principle of clinical research including Good Clinical Practice.
• Experience in the conduct of clinical trials

Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrates ability to prioritise workload
• Demonstrates evidence of professional development
• Demonstrates academic achievement appropriate to level of appointment
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality

Personal and people management skills

• Demonstrates commitment and preparedness
• Enthusiastic nature
• Demonstrates honesty, integrity and appreciation of ethical dilemmas
• Reliability – demonstrates punctuality, attendance and sense of responsibility
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Escalate where appropriate any clinical concerns to seniors

Communication

• The post holder must have demonstrable experience in their application of effectively communicating both in writing and verbally with primary care General Practitioners (GPs), ensuring clear, professional, and accurate exchange of information.

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

• Demonstratable understanding of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:

• Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by: Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control. Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control. Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities. Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/why-choose-uclh/flexible-working.

We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.

Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage’s staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.

We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.

We are also members of www.mytrustbenefits.co.uk/ which offers discounts on high street retail stores, offers on travel deals, and also to take advantage of cash back schemes.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

Please note that if you are at present in a training position on the 2016 new junior doctor’s contract and are applying for a Trust doctor role your salary will not be pay protected.

You will be placed on the appropriate point of the Trust Doctor pay scale based on your previous experience.

Please note that if you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date of the advert to assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Tommy Rampling Job title Infectious Diseases Consultant Email address [e-mail] Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact:

Dr Tommy Rampling, Infectious Diseases Consultant ([e-mail])