Job summary
- Main area
- Infectious Diseases
- Grade
- MN37
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-TDPA-081
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Du Cane Road,
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £41,750 - £64,288 per annum plus London Weighting
- Closing
- 30/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Fellow in fungal diseases
MN37
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The post is based in the Imperial College Infection Service primarily between Charing Cross Hospital (Medical Mycology Laboratory) and Hammersmith (Immunocompromised patient groups). The Trust Fellowship is 90% Research and 10% Clinical and will enable exposure to all aspects of fungal disease clinically and from a research perspective. The primary aim of the post will be to deliver a clinical analytic electronic healthcare record data platform to enable systematic delivery of antifungal stewardship data capture, analytics, patient identification and digital health interventions. It will represent an outstanding opportunity for sub-specialist training in invasive fungal disease clinical management, antifungal stewardship, digital health interventions and clinical analytics approaches.
The Fellow will seek to both undertake a retrospective 3 year analysis to identify all patients with invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare during the COVID era, as well as development of a real-world prospective analysis that will link to an antifungal dashboard. This will allow is to generate real-time data on patients with invasive fungal disease to enable systematic antifungal stewardship.
The program will be supported by the core multidisciplinary antifungal stewardship team (Meg Coleman Respiratory, and Darius Armstrong-James Medical Mycology, Mark Gilchrist and Richard Wilson Pharmacy).
Main duties of the job
The Fellow will divide their time between research 90% and clinical duties 10%, which will be primarily supporting the Fungal MDT and antifungal stewardship program. There will be a degree of flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate’s preferences and interest. However the primary aim will be to develop electronic health systems for antifungal stewardship and undertake data analysis focussed on prescribing, diagnostics and outcomes in our populations with fungal disease.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post is funded by a recent industrial sponsorship to enable fungal disease stewardship, funded by Gilead Sciences. The key job descriptors are as follows:
1 To provide outstanding training for an infection or respiratory clinical trainee to digital methods in antifungal
stewardship, and medical mycology.
2 To develop the necessary data informatics pipelines and analytical approaches required to undertake retrospective and prospective analysis of the incidence, treatment and outcome from invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare.
3 To undertake a 3 year retrospective analysis of the incidence and outcome from invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare, with a focus on emerging groups of risk patients, such as those receiving novel
immunomodulators and those patients in critical care.
4 To characterise the impact of viral pneumonia on critical care invasive fungal disease and antifungal usage and
expenditure
5 To undertake a prospective analysis of invasive fungal disease incidence and outcomes at Imperial College
Healthcare
6 To develop an antifungal stewardship dashboard to enable real-time visualisation of integrated clinical and prescribing data on all patients with a diagnosis of invasive fungal disease and those patients receiving antifungal therapy.
7 To public disseminate the outputs of the Fellowship through presentation of data at national and international
conferences as well as through the preparation of high-quality original research manuscripts.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Primary medical qualification
- • Full GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- MRCP or equivalent
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- • Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- • Understanding and experience of audit projects
- • Ability to critically appraised a paper
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of service audit
- • Experience of junior team rota & annual leave coordination
- • Evidence of academic training
- • Training in research methodology
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Good history & examination skills
- • Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- • Able to order appropriate investigations
- • Image interpretation relevant to practise
- • Acknowledge own limitations knowing when to appropriately seek assistance from senior colleagues
- • Experience of doing shifts at SHO level
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working as an SHO in infectious diseases
Clinical skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical skills, experience and interest in Infectious diseases
- Broad based medical knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Particular interest in Infectious diseases
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Darius Armstrong-James
- Job title
- Infectious Disease Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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