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Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Clinical Research Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
10 sessions per week
Job ref
319-6200515NR
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wansbeck General Hospital
Town
Ashington
Salary
£43,923 - £55,329 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

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Cardiology Clinical Research Fellow

NHS Medical & Dental: Clinical Research Fellow

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a full time Cardiology Clinical Research Fellow to the Department of Cardiology. The clinical duties of these posts will be based Trust wide incorporating the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH), Wansbeck General Hospital (WGH), North Tyneside General Hospital (NTGH) and Hexham General Hospital (HGH).

The Clinical Research Fellow will receive both clinical training in cardiology and provide clinical support for a portfolio of clinical cardiovascular research.

If the successful appointee has over four years post qualification experience, they will be appointed on Specialty Doctor 2021 Terms and Conditions.

Main duties of the job

This post is best suited to candidates who have completed Foundation Training. The role and responsibility’s will be adjusted according to prior experience. The fellow will provide medical support within the Clinical Research Department (CRD) for high profile clinical trials. They will work within a supportive, multidisciplinary team of research nurses, Principle Investigators, clinical trial pharmacists and study co-ordinators. They will gain experience and training in all aspects of clinical research delivery, including: study set up, recruitment, consent, pharmacovigilance, investigations, research governance and follow-up of patients. They will receive the necessary training to enable you to deliver clinical research; prior experience is not essential.

The post will allow us to improve our current inpatient and outpatient provision. The successful candidates will be given full training at SpR level in a broad spectrum of Cardiology, both on our acute Cardiology ward (including an 6 bedded CCU) and in outpatients.

Working for our organisation

You will join a team of 14 Consultant Cardiologists, 2 specialist trainees and 13 Specialist Nurses in Cardiology Trust wide. There is a full range of cardiac imaging modalities available across the Trust including MRI, CT and echo (transthoracic, stress, contrast, bubble and transesophageal). Diagnostic angiography and a pacing suite that undertakes simple and complex implantable device procedures runs on the NSECH site. 

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to assisting all employees to achieve a work-life balance, regardless of their personal circumstances.  Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time, will be eligible to be considered for the post.  If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with colleagues.

To be eligible for consideration for this role and appointment by an Appointments Committee, candidates must be fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Register and have previous experience working within the UK National Health Service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.     

 The post will allow us to improve our current inpatient and outpatient provision. The successful candidates will be given full training at SpR level in a broad spectrum of Cardiology, both on our acute Cardiology ward (including an 6 bedded CCU) and in outpatients.

You will join a team of 14 Consultant Cardiologists, 2 specialist trainees and 13 Specialist Nurses in Cardiology Trust wide. There is a full range of cardiac imaging modalities available across the Trust including MRI, CT and echo (transthoracic, stress, contrast, bubble and transesophageal).

Diagnostic angiography and a pacing suite that undertakes simple and complex implantable device procedures runs on the NSECH site.                                                                               

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Medical degree

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous NHS Experience
  • Successful completion of Foundation Programme
  • Evidence of educational achievement and progression
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge related to participating in research projects

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Prof. David Ripley
Job title
Consultant Cardiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03448118111
Additional information

Dr Iain Matthews, Head of Service, Iain.Matthews@[email protected]

Professor David Ripley, [email protected]

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