Clinical Research Fellow (ST3+ level) in Cardiology

Job responsibilities

The main responsibilities are to support the Compassionate Cell Therapy Unit and other regenerative medicine research activities/studies. Barts Heart Centre is the leading centre for cardiac stem cell treatment and has recruited over 300 patients.

Compassionate Cell Therapy Unit:

1. Duties will involve: Patient recruitment (screening, assessment, MDT presentations), patient treatment (bone marrow aspiration, intracoronary cell infusions) and follow ups.
2. Collation and publish of research data.

Refractory Angina Cell Therapy Clinical Trial (REGENERATE-COBRA):

1. Research fellow for REGENERATE-COBRA (a Phase II clinical trial of autologous cell therapy for the treatment of refractory angina). This is the first trial in the UK to evaluate this therapy. The trial will recruit 110 patients. Duties will involve patient recruitment, treatment and follow ups.
2. Data from this study will form the basis of an MD/PhD should the postholder so wish

Clinical Duties:

In addition, the successful applicant may be asked to undertake a limited amount of the following activities:

1. To provide, as part of the rota for interventional and structural cardiac services, day-to-day care for inpatients for these services. This includes patients admitted as part of the heart attack service, patients after emergency PCI for myocardial infarction or other acute coronary syndromes and patients undergoing elective procedures or assessment. It also includes being the Registrar on call for the heart attack service, through which all acute suspected and confirmed ST elevation myocardial infarction cases are admitted. All these duties are fully supported and supervised by the relevant Consultant body.

1. To support the cardiac catheterisation laboratories for diagnostic coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). This includes supervising and performing some angiography and/or PCI (after appropriate training and competency assessment), reporting and reviewing studies on patients, maintaining patient safety at all times and assisting in the smooth running of these departments.

1. To undertake regular outpatient activities in general cardiology and in clinics related to the investigation or treatment of coronary artery disease

1. There is a full shift resident on call for the above inpatient services at Barts Heart Centre and the Heart Attack Service. This rota includes out of hours work and weekend work. The rota is compliant with the European Working Time Directive.

Qualifications

Essential

• The applicant must have achieved a primary medical qualification as recognised by the General Medical Council (GMC) and have current Full Registration with the GMC.
• MB BS or equivalent
• MRCP or equivalent

Desirable

• Good Clinical Practice certificate

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a cardiology department

Desirable

• Experience of working in a research environment
• Experience of working in a research environment
• Previous experience in coronary angiography or PCI.

Knowledge

Essential

• The applicant must be familiar with and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the major principles of the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2006) including:
• oGood clinical care
• oMaintaining good medical practice
• oTeaching and training, appraising and assessing
• oRelationships with patients, and can apply this understanding
• oWorking with colleagues, and can apply this understanding
• oProbity and Health

Skills

Essential

• The applicant must demonstrate: oan understanding of the importance of the patient as the central focus of care
• othe ability to prioritise tasks and information appropriately;
• oan understanding of the importance of working effectively with others;
• othe ability to communicate effectively with both colleagues and patients
• oinitiative and the ability to deal effectively with pressure and/or challenge
• oan understanding of the principles of equality and diversity
• The applicant must have demonstrable skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking in English that enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as set out in paragraph 22 of the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2006)

Desirable

• Current ALS certification
• Experience of statistical analyses

Other

Essential

• The applicant must demonstrate appropriate professional behaviour, i.e. integrity, honesty, confidentiality as set out in the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2006)
• The applicant must have criminal records clearance at the appropriate level subject to prevailing UK legislation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).