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Main area
Dermatology
Grade
Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (40hrs per week)
Job ref
196-MED4916
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Guy's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£52,656 p.a. excl. LZ
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/08/2025 23:59

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Junior Clinical Fellow in Dermatology (Epidermolysis Bullosa)

Clinical Fellow

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

The Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is one of two nationally commissioned (NSCT) services for adults with this disease (the other centre is at Solihull Hospital in Birmingham) and works in collaboration with the two national paediatric EB centres (at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Birmingham Children’s Hospital). The service at GSTT provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care for approximately 450 adult EB patients, including outpatient reviews, complex multidisciplinary team assessments and inpatient admissions. Specialties represented in the EB multidisciplinary team include specialist nursing, dentistry, dietetics, plastic surgery, hand therapy, physiotherapy, palliative care, pain management, psychotherapy, oncology, ophthalmology and podiatry. Alongside the clinical EB service, GSTT hosts the Robin Eady National Diagnostic EB Laboratory, providing comprehensive skin biopsy and genetic analysis for all types of EB from the UK and abroad. The clinical and diagnostic EB services at GSTT are highly regarded nationally and internationally as centres of excellence for the diagnosis and management of this rare group of diseases.

Main duties of the job

 

  • To receive subspeciality training and further development in adult epidermolysis bullosa, paediatric dermatology and the diagnosis and management of genodermatoses with particular focus on epidermolyisis bullosa & disorders of keratinisation
  • To deliver clinical and other service activities in order to provide a high standard of care for adult EB patients, as well as children with skin disease and patients with genetic skin disease
  • To support nursing and administrative staff in the efficient and smooth running of the EB service
  • To actively contribute to clinical research activities of St. John’s Institute of Dermatology including presentations at national and international meetings and publications of research outputs

Working for our organisation

St John’s provides a comprehensive general dermatology service, as well as a wide range of multi-disciplinary specialist services (see our web page). Its primary role is the delivery of excellence in clinical service, education and training, research and development in Dermatology. These functions are undertaken in both clinical and academic settings. 

On the academic side the Institute offers two postgraduate degrees in Dermatology and makes an important contribution to the Biomedical School as part of the Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, GKT School of Medicine, King's College London. GSTT and KCL provide one of only five Biomedical Research Centres in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

The postholder will, together with colleagues, contribute to the provision of dermatology services to the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital Trust as follows:

  • Become an active member of the multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients with EB and other genodermatoses, as well as children with skin disease
  • To support outpatient clinics (EB, genetics, paediatric dermatology,skin cancer screening)
  • To contribute to the in-patient care of EB and genodermatosis patients within the Trust
  • To work with the EB Patient Pathway Manager, EB clinical nurse specialists and administrative staff to co-ordinate and facilitate outpatient, day case and inpatient episodes for EB patients
  • To provide continuing clinical responsibility for the patient in your charge

 Teaching and Training

All fellows are expected to contribute to the extensive teaching and training programme at St John’s.

Specifically, this post encompasses

  • Responsibility shared with colleagues for the educational supervision of trainees attending the department.
  • support for the postgraduate MSc course

 Research:

  • To support the extensive clinical research programme at St John’s including
  • supervising and contributing to the provision of required medical support for patients participating in clinical trials
  • promoting clinical research activities to other members of clinical staff within St. John’s thereby enhancing the delivery of research programme

Clinical Governance:

All medical and dental staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management.  They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their appraisal. 

Mutual Obligation to Monitor Hours:

There is a contractual obligation on employers to monitor working hours through robust local monitoring arrangements supported by national guidance, and on individual doctors to co-operate with those monitoring arrangements.

New Deal & European Working Time Directive (EWTD):

All posts and working patterns are under constant review in line with both New Deal and EWTD guidelines

Educational Programme:

Neither the London Deanery not the Royal College of Physicians accredits this post for postgraduate training. However, the postholder will be expected to attend and contribute to educational activities e.g. departmental meetings, pathology meetings, multidisciplinary meetings, journal clubs etc.

Appraisal:

All medical and dental staff are required to undertake appraisal. 

Other:

The list of duties and responsibilities given above is not an exhaustive list and you may be asked to undertake other duties in line with the overall purpose and nature of the post as may be required from time to time.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria
  • Eligible for registration with the GMC
  • MB BS (or equivalent)
  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent

Clinical Experience/Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Proven track record of General Medicine experience
  • Relevant post reg. experience
  • Understanding of clinical risk management
  • Competent to work without direct supervision where appropriate
  • Clear, logical thinking showing an analytical/scientific approach
  • Enthusiasm for clinical medicine
Desirable criteria
  • Research experience

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undergraduate teaching and postgraduate training
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching qualification

Research

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
Desirable criteria
  • Research experience

Personal skills audit, professional development

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
  • Good organisation and communication skills
  • Understanding the principles of clinical governance and its implications
  • Evidence of a depth of understanding of audit

Other

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council
  • Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jemma Mellerio
Job title
Consultant Dermatologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071887188
Additional information

For further information, please contact Professor Jemma Mellerio

 

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