Job summary
- Main area
- Haematology
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 18 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-MED5275
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guys Hospital
- Town
- London Bridge
- Salary
- £67,325 - £76,582 pa. excl. LZ
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Transfusion Clinical Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior 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
Applications are invited for appointment to a clinical research training fellow in data driven transfusion practice based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
The post will be based at the Guy’s & St Thomas’ sites and the post holder will be someone who has an interest in gaining further knowledge and experience in transfusion medicine, and developing research skills including data analysis and publications. The post holder will work with the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust team and researchers in the NIHR Blood Transfusion Research Unit (BTRU), described below.
The core aim of the research undertaken by the NIHR BTRU is “How can we better use data in transfusion?” Blood transfusion is a common procedure carried out in hospitals; nearly 2 million blood components are transfused in England at a cost of over £300 million/year. Used to best effect, these play a vital role in saving lives, but repeated analyses show large gaps between recommended and actual transfusion practice. Unnecessary transfusions put patients at risk of adverse effects and are a waste of a limited resource. In addition, blood services often find it difficult to predict how much blood hospitals need. This results in both wasted blood and a risk that the best type of blood component may not always be available for a patient needing a transfusion.
This is an excellent opportunity and experience in a teaching hospital with an excellent national and international reputation.
Main duties of the job
· To provide clinical input into the management of patients regarding transfusion medicine.
· To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
· To participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
· To participate in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management.
· Be an active member of the GSTT and KHP Haematology Transfusion working group, and support the development of associated projects and programmes of work.
Participate as appropriately, in wider KHP Haematology activities e.g. educational events, away days, and strategic workshops as a subject matter
Working for our organisation
The Trust consists of St Thomas’ Hospital at Waterloo, including the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s Hospital at London Bridge and the Royal Brompton and Harefield.
Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.
We provide a full range of hospital services for our local communities, as well as community health services for people living in Lambeth and Southwark. We also provide specialist services for patients from further afield, including cancer, cardiac, kidney, women’s and orthopaedic services, and we are home to the Evelina Children’s Hospital. We have one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest A&E departments in London. See www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk for further details.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends. We also have a positive approach to corporate social responsibility and are keen to engage our staff in an agenda that ranges from promoting environmental sustainability to the creation of local employment opportunities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The principal duty of the post-holder will be to undertake clinics, support the Trust in to reduce inappropriate transfusion through various projects and developing a research project on the key aspects of use of data for patients and health care professional across the NHS. The post holder will also contribute to publications and be expected to participate in all relevant academic and teaching activities.
- Participate and integrate in the GSTT, KHP and NIHR BTRU programme of research. Plan, manage and conduct an original research project and associated activities, taking direction from their supervisor and other colleagues as appropriate.
- Coordinate multiple aspects of work to deliver novel research data in accordance with established timelines set between you and the Principal investigator and supervisor.
· Regularly contribute to or write research articles at an international level for peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and reviews.
· Carry out collaborative projects with colleagues in partner institutions, and research groups, in accordance with supervisor’s requirements.
· Involvement in the writing and submission of grant applications.
Person specification
Medical experience
Essential criteria
- GMC registered medical practitioner or ability to obtain GMC requirements and practice in the UK (please see the general medical Council website for further details).
- Comprehensive clinical experience in Haematology, particularly transfusion medicine.
- Evidence of understanding of and adherence to the principles of Good Medical Practice set out by the General Medical Council.
- Previous experience of poor interest in health service research, quality improvement, evidence-based medicine, or working with “big data”.
Desirable criteria
- A medical degree and some specialist experience, typically having obtained MRCP or equivalent, but not CCT or consultant status
IT Literacy
Essential criteria
- High level of computer literacy and highly competent use of windows operating systems and Microsoft office applications.
Previous experience and skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate high level of attention to detail.
- Good communication skills and ability to work with people from different backgrounds and levels of seniority.
- Willing to undertake training on data analysis and related AI software.
- Previous experience of maintaining well documented clinical and research records.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to evolving environments.
- Excellent oral and written communications and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and post graduate training
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of poor interest in health service research, quality improvement, evidence-based medicine, or working with “big data”.
- Demonstrating a willingness to keep up-to-date with scientific, clinical and professional issues, in particular relating to developments in the specific subject area
- Previous publications and experiencing giving presentations
- Prior research experience (typically a BSC in a relevant scientific subject or computer science).
- Good understanding of statistical package brackets for example Stata, SPSS, SAS or R).
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
- Susan Robinson
- Job title
- Haematology Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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