GIRFT Clinical Research Fellow in Urology

North Bristol NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust is seeking a clinical fellow to support the decarbonisation of healthcare pathways in urology. This role involves clinical duties alongside research opportunities, focusing on sustainability in healthcare. Successful candidates will have the chance to publish and present their findings while collaborating with leading professionals in the field.

Qualifications

• Maintain full registration with General Medical Council.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience at core training level in urology.
• Proven teaching experience and engagement in quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ward rounds and outpatient clinics under supervision.
• Develop a guide to decarbonise healthcare pathways.
• Engage in research and quality improvement projects.

Skills

Data analysis

Teaching

Communication

Education

MRCS

Tools

Excel

SPSS

Job description

This particular role will focus on decarbonising healthcare pathways as part of the UKRI-funded sustainability hub. You will have weekly/fortnightly supervision meetings with GIRFT's Academic Content Lead and have regular access to GIRFT's national clinical lead for your specialty, Professor Tim Briggs (National Director of Clinical Improvement) and the wider GIRFT Academy team. You will have access to national datasets curated by NHS England (including Hospital Episodes Statistics (in-patients and out-patients), Emergency Care and Theatres datasets). We will support you to write peer-reviewed research publications, presentations for conferences and guidelines/recommendations as appropriate. Taught elements will include sessions on quality improvement methodology, leadership, behavioural change, action learning sets, statistics, academic publication, and public engagement. Peer support from other fellows is an important component of the fellowship.

Main duties of the job

Supervised by a Urology Consultant, the duties will be split between GIRFT and clinical obligations which will vary according to the Trust (60% GIRFT 40% Trust).

Trust

Ward rounds.

Outpatients including outpatient procedures.

On call.

GIRFT

The NHS has a commitment to make the NHS net zero for carbon emissions by 2045. The primary purpose of this fellowship will be to produce a guide to decarbonise a clinical pathway within the urology specialty. During the 12 months, you will follow methodology ( Environmental Lessons Learned and Applied (ELLA) ) developed by the GIRFT programme and produce a GIRFT Greener Pathways guide to decarbonise the care pathway. An example guides of the type you will produce can be accessed in the link below. Academic peer reviewed publications and conference presentations will be expected products of the work.

https://gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FINAL-A-practical-guide-to-decarbonising-the-bladder-cancer-care-pathway-FINAL-December-2024.pdf

On-Call

1 in 14 weeks on the middle grade rota.

About us

North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region and one of the largest trusts in the country. Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 35,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies. It employs more than 9,500 staff, has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds and income in excess of £540 million.

The Trust has University Teaching status and is associated with both the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England.

North Bristol NHS Trust Urology Department offers complex and core Urological services throughout the Bristol Urological Institute (BUI), based at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and Weston General Hospital in Weston-super-Mare. The BUI is a tertiary referral centre and has gained a global reputation it has become a major national and international surgical, education and research centre.

The clinicians at the BUI have always been at the cutting edge providing advanced stone surgery including minimally invasive kidney stone surgery, robotic surgery for urological cancers and reconstruction, pioneering urodynamics, advancing complex andrology/penile cancer, genito-urethral reconstruction and investing in community delivered diagnostics.

Job description

Job responsibilities

GIRFT Is a national programme designed to improve the treatment and care of patients through in-depth review of services, benchmarking, and presenting a data-driven evidence base to support change. The programme undertakes clinically-led reviews of specialties, combining wide-ranging data analysis with the input and professional knowledge of senior clinicians to examine how things are currently being done and how they could be improved.

Working to the principle that a patient should expect to receive equally timely and effective investigations, treatment and outcomes wherever care is delivered, irrespective of who delivers that care, GIRFT aims to identify approaches from across the NHS that improve outcomes and patient experience, without the need for radical change or additional investment.

GIRFT has grown into a large-scale national programme and in a post-Covid NHS is vitally important as Trusts progress their medical recovery plans across the specialties. For more information on GIRFT, please see their website here: https://www.gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/

Person Specification

Education/Training/Qualifications

Essential

• Maintain full registration with General Medical Council
• MRCS

Work Experience

Essential

• Recent experience and familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices, especially outpatient clinics
• Minimum of 2 years' experience at core training level with experience in urology

Desirable

• Regional or national level engagement in scientific or clinical research or quality improvement projects.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Completion of the audit cycle
• Proven teaching experience
• Previous engagement in a research project or quality improvement initiative with reach beyond a single hospital or trust.
• Evidence of use of basic data analysis software (e.g. Excel, SPSS)

Desirable

• Interest in environmentally sustainable healthcare

Personal Qualities/Special Circumstances

Essential

• Willingness to undertake teaching of medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Good written and verbal communication skills, Evidence of ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels

Desirable

• Ability to teach effectively

Employer details

Employer name

North Bristol NHS Trust

Address

Southmead

Bristol

BS10 5NB

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