Job overview

The Post-COVID Service at UCLH is a nationally and internationally recognised clinical
service that cares for patients who experience long-term effects of COVID infection or other viral infection. We are a multidisciplinary service lead by physicians with expertise in post viral illness with multispeciality input from consultant colleagues in Respiratory, Infectious Disease, Neurology, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Rheumatology and Heamatology departments. Working within the team will provide a broad medical training, extensive consultant supervision, and will position the clinical fellow strongly for applying for, for example, IMT training programmes. The therapy team are key to patient assessment and management and include senior physiotherapists and occupational therapists and psychologists to enable holistic care of multisystem illness

Main duties of the job

The clinical fellow will gain useful training in understanding integrated MDT management of complex scenarios and of working in an integrated pathway with community services and primary care who also contribute significantly to care in Long COVID and other post viral illness. Of note the service is increasingly evolving so that patients can be referred for assessment and treatment for any suspected post viral illnesses and works collaboratively with other similar services in North Central London. Digital innovation has been adopted to support triage and rehabilitation and the service has a strong focus on capture of quality clinical data to support learning and research in this new field. The post-COVID Service is actively engaged in developing and testing clinical hypotheses regarding the mechanism and treatment of post-COVID syndrome, and clinicians from the service have played an active role in the development of National Guidelines, and research programmes. It is anticipated that the clinical fellow would be able to contribute to a number of ongoing pieces of clinical research underway in the clinic.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. 

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: 

·         University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) 

·         National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

·         Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 

·         University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 

·         Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 

·         University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 

·         The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 

·         University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.