Job summary
- Main area
- Research and Development
- Grade
- Trust Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (August 2025 for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Basic hours only - No on-call)
- Job ref
- 317-TD-25-158
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CR Team 9 529002
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £49,909 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine (ST1-2 equivalent)
Trust Doctor
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and dynamic individual to support our Adult Respiratory Medicine Unit. There are two components to the role; the candidate will support ward and outpatient activities on a rolling rota basis. There is a significant component of the time spent supporting the Clinical Trials Unit either seeing patients for their trials visits or when in clinic/ ward setting signposting patients into research. You will be working within a large ward and outpatient team for Clinical Service offering scope to extend skills in Respiratory Medicine. The trials centre has over 20 open studies across Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis, Pleural and Sleep Medicine. The candidate will work alongside the Respiratory Nursing Team to ensure patients’ visits, physical examinations and results are conducted/ reviewed as needed. Prior experience in trials is not mandatory but the candidate will be expected to undertake Good Clinical Practice certification.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the job is to support ward and outpatient based clinical activities and to provide medical cover to the busy Respiratory Clinical Trials Unit at Freeman Hospital. The candidate will develop clinical trials skills across a range of open studies for Asthma, COPD, Bronchiectasis, Sleep and Pleural Disease.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Prof Tony De Soyza on 01912231439 (PA) or via email at [email protected].
We typically receive several hundred applications for ST1/2 locally employed doctor posts and we will therefore only shortlist candidates with paid NHS experience (this does not include Clinical Access or Clinical Observership placements) which is an essential criteria within the Person Specification. Please do not apply if you do not have paid NHS experience as this leads to significant clinician time reviewing applications from applicants who will not be shortlisted.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
· Support Ward and Clinic requirements
· Attend research patient appointments/ undertake physical exams
· Check safety blood test results
Administrative:
· Linking with Nursing Team and Consultants to ensure scheduled patient visits are covered
· Signing results
Research:
· Developing or delivering an “own” research project is not required
· Supporting the NIHR portfolio studies as above is a core element of this post
· Attending study investigator meetings and/or online training
Teaching:
· Teaching of staff across the department
· Supporting undergrad teaching is welcomed but not mandatory
Flexibility:
In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice at the time of application.
Desirable criteria
- NIHR Good clinical practice GCP certification (but candidate can develop this in post if not already holding).
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good history & examination skills.
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis
- Able to order appropriate investigations.
- Image interpretation relevant to practice.
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
- Paid NHS experience
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects.
Desirable criteria
- Prior experience in recruitment into trials Prior experience and training in consenting patients for research
Communication, Relationships and Working with Colleagues
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and other people within a team.
- Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues in all disciplines.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Alignment with the Trust’s Values.
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development.
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD.
- Time management skills.
- Honesty, integrity, awareness of ethical dilemmas, respect for confidentiality.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills.
- IT literate.
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
- Louise Scorfield
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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