Senior Clinical Fellow in Adult and Inherited Metabolic Disorders

Job summary

The postholder will have the opportunity to gain clinical training experience in metabolic medicine, which will be agreed on appointment. This will include experience in inpatient care and outpatient clinic work, with the possibility of clinical care in the outreach care organisations.

The post will provide and gain experience in general metabolic and LSD clinics. Multidisciplinary/ joint clinics include dietetics, cardiology, bone, neurology, neuromuscular, reproductive endocrinology, renal and others.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will join a team consisting of Metabolic Medicine Consultants, a clinical fellow/ specialist registrar working within the wider multidisciplinary service of an advanced practitioner, specialist dietitians, nurses, pharmacy, physiotherapy and research staff. The team is supported managerially by a support manager, lead manager, senior service manager and clinical director. The nature of the work will include assessment, and provision of a range of clinical treatments and care covering the spectrum of Inherited Metabolic Disorders.

There is team-based assessment of patients effected by IMD ranging from

acute presenting disorders to slowly progressive disorders. The postholder will gain experience in dietary management and pharmacotherapy (including enzyme replacement therapy, chaperone therapies, substrate reduction therapies and gene therapies), with exposure to diagnostic and monitoring biochemical techniques, genetic counselling, physiotherapeutic and the psychosocial needs of these patients.

The teams enjoy close working relationships with other departments within the Trust and in Greater Manchester. The appointee will develop relations and work with these teams including the disabilities team, neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology and anaesthetics to name but a few. An out of hours advisory service is provided by the Metabolic team in liaison with the local admitting/ medical assessment team.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/