St Mark’s Research Fellow (Medical / Surgical)

Job summary

To help to meet the growing demand within the Gastroenterology service an opportunity has arisen for two Clinical Research Fellows to be appointed to both meet the service needs and undertake a supervised research projects in IBD.

The successful candidates are expected to register for a higher degree with Imperial College and encouraged to apply for local and national research funding early in their research experience in order to support and enhance financing of their project. The part-time clinical activity, offers an excellent opportunity to gain further specialist clinical experience while out of programme. The clinical activities include Specialist IBD and Gastroenterology clinics and endoscopy lists (potentially on any of the Trust's sites).

Further details about the projects and the post can be obtained by contacting Professor Naila Arebi, Lead for IBD Service, Dr Ravi Misra co-lead narebi@nhs.net or rmisra@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The postholder will take part in one of two clinical rotas:

• 1:6 rota to provide an overnight 'clinical academic fellow' at registrar level to support the first on-call registrar at Northwick Park Hospital. The Department of General Surgery at NPH provides a comprehensive range of emergency and elective surgical services. General Surgery currently admits approximately 5,500 emergency patients per year. The postholder will be a colorectal surgical trainee and will be responsible to the Department of General Surgery for the care of surgical patients at Northwick Park while on-call.
• 1:8 rota at Central Middlesex Hospital with modest daytime clinical commitment. Elective Colorectal, Orthopaedic and some General Surgery patients are operated on at Central Middlesex Hospital both in the ACAD and BeCAD operating theatres. This post will provide medical cover for these surgical patients on a 1:8 nights and weekends rota at Central Middlesex Hospital, and facilitate obtaining a surgical opinion on other medical patients within the Hospital. Supervised, two week wait clinics will also be performed on a flexible basis. This post can be performed by gastroenterology trainees or colorectal surgical trainees and is responsible to the St Mark's Colorectal Surgery Department for their clinical duties

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.