Job summary
- Main area
- HIV and Infectious Disease
- Grade
- Research Fellow (Locally Employed Doctors)
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-8253212
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £67,325 per annum plus £2,162 London Weighting
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Research Fellow in HIV and Infectious Diseases
Research Fellow (Locally Employed Doctors)
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
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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).
Working for our organisation
The HIV service provided by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is recognised as an international Centre of Excellence for HIV care. It serves the inpatient and outpatient needs of over 3000 people with HIV and has the largest cohort of women with HIV in the country. It has an inpatient HIV unit and runs specialist consultant-led clinics within the department including in viral hepatitis, TB, cardiology, renal disease, rheumatology, ageing and frailty, chronic fatigue, lipid disorders, AIN, gynaecology and psychiatry. For stable patients on medication e-clinics are in place, which are both Doctor and Nurse led. Care in all areas of medicine is increasingly being provided at a network level and the department is active in developing and strengthening links with our clinical colleagues across the North Central London Network. The HIV department has a dedicated research team and many patients are involved in clinical trials including those for new antivirals, primary HIV infections and questionnaire based studies.
More recently, the Royal Free has established a dedicated vaccine trial research team. This team successfully delivered on large scale Covid vaccine trials during the pandemic. The vaccine trials team have more large-scale vaccine trials (Phase 1 through to 3) about to open and others on the horizon. The post-holder will help support delivery and oversight of these trials.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
More detailed job description and person specification documents are available in the documents section.
Person specification
Royal Free shared commitments
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments.
Education and professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practice
- MRCP 1 & 2 or equivalent
- Current GCP certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working within the NHS
- Clinical experience in HIV and/or infectious diseases/GUM
- Knowledge and understanding of the principles and practice of clinical trial design, regulatory processes, and clinical trial management
Personal qualities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Committed to providing a responsive and helpful service
- Making inclusivity, diversity and inter(cultural) awareness core to actions and decision-making for self and team
- Making best practice an absolute priority
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Commitment to carry out quality research, leading to publication
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation skills and ability to manage time and work to deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, and collaborate with other clinical researchers and research collaborators
- Quality ethical and professional standards in research and education
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abigail Tobin
- Job title
- Specialist Lead Clinical Research Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02077940500
- Additional information
Extension: 31239
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