Senior Trust Fellow in Paediatric Immunology

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Job summary

A leading children's hospital in London is seeking a Senior Trust Fellow in Paediatric Immunology for a one-year fixed-term position starting in July 2025. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain extensive clinical experience in immunology and related fields, working closely with a dedicated team of specialists in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Post-MRCPCH or equivalent with excellent record in care of general paediatric and acutely sick children.
• Experience of managing patients with inborn errors of immunity.
• Minimum of ST6 Paediatric training experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide outpatient daycase care and manage children with recurrent infections and Primary Immunodeficiency.
• Work alongside the consultant team and specialist nurses.
• Coordinate complex outpatient care with other fellows.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Education

Medical degree

MRCPCH or equivalent

Completion of specialist Paediatric training (CCT / CESR)

Higher research degree (e.g. PhD, MD, MRes, MSc)

Job description

Employer Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Great Ormond Street Hospital Town London Salary £54,468 - £64,288 (Basic pay) pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 23/06/2025

Senior Trust Fellow in Paediatric Immunology

ST6+

Job overview

Senior Trust Fellow in Paediatric Immunology
(Equivalent ST6 – Post CCT)

Start Date: July 2025, 1 year fixed term (Possibility to extend)

We are currently seeking applications for a Senior Clinical Fellow, providing an exciting opportunity to broaden and extend your clinical experience of paediatric Immunology, BMT and Infectious Diseases in the busy but supportive environment of a large children’s hospital.

As part of a team of senior middle grade doctors, you will provide outpatient daycase care, and will be trained in the diagnostic work-up and therapeutic management of children with recurrent infections and Primary Immunodeficiency.

The role offers a particularly valuable experience of the long-term outpatient management of children with Primary Immunodeficiency, working closely with the consultant team and specialist nurses. This is a unique experience to work alongside our Bone Marrow Transplant, Gene Therapy, and Thymic Transplant teams in the management of children with these rare disorders.

As the Senior Immunology Fellow you will work alongside the Gene therapy Fellow and thymic transplant Fellow in coordinating complex outpatients care. You will also work with the ward based middle grade team, which includes a mix of GRID trainees, Specialist Registrars and Clinical fellows who work across Immunology, Infectious Diseases and BMT patients at GOSH. There are no out of hour’s commitment with this post.

Main duties of the job

This is a post suitable for a doctor who is post-MRCPCH or equivalent with an excellent record in care of general paediatric and acutely sick children; and who wishes to pursue a career in paediatric Immunology, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, or infectious diseases. The exact duties of the post holder will be tailored ot the successful candidate’s experience, and as such this post provides an excellent opportunity to a post-CCST candidate (or equivalent) wishing to specialise in tertiary level immunodeficiency, prior to taking up a consultant post. The post is a full time appointment, but applications from doctors wishing to work on a part-time basis will also be welcomed.

This contract is fixed term in nature, as the post is designed to provide specific training competencies to the post holder. Upon commencement in this role, your training competencies will be set.

Working for our organisation

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachments.

Person specification

GOSH Culture and Values

• Always welcoming
• Always helpful
• Always one team
• Experience of working as part of a diverse team.
• Knowledge and Understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
• Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
• Medical degree and MRPCH or equivalent
• Previous experience of clinical research with publications in peer reviewed journals
• Completion of specialist Paediatric training (CCT / CESR)
• Higher research degree (e.g. PhD, MD, MRes, MSc)

Experience/Knowledge

• Experience of managing patients with inborn errors of immunity
• Minimum of ST6 Paediatric training experience (or equivalent) with significant experience of Paediatric Immunodeficiency in a teriary specialist treatment centre
• Experience of basic immunology research

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, and evidence of effective spoken and written English
• Ability to work within a team
• Excellent organisational skills

Please be advised that:

The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.

We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.

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.