"Academic GP Advanced Fellow"

About the Role

In partnership with North East London Integrated Care Board, QMUL has launched a brand new training programme, recruiting GP Fellows to work a portfolio role, both in practice and in academia. The programme aims to train GP Fellows in health data science, research methods, and the clinical effectiveness approach, to develop them into future academic GP leaders.

The post will be split 50:50 in clinical practice and academia. This is a single recruitment process and applicants will not need to apply to practices separately. Those candidates that are successful in the QMUL interview will be matched with a suitable practice in Barking & Dagenham, Havering or an adjacent borough, and thus will have two separate employment contracts. In academia, individual learning needs will be addressed, and GP Fellows can undertake modules from our Health Data in Practice MSc. This is a tailored programme, based on the fellows’ interests and aims. Successful applicants will be able to choose their research projects and will receive regular supervision and peer support.

About You

We are looking for talented and motivated clinicians who are passionate about general practice, primary care research and health care data. The ideal candidate will be interested in developing experience in primary care research methodologies, including independently delivering end-to-end projects and working with multiple stakeholders.

About the Institute & Centre

The Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) is an exciting and dynamic environment, home to 450 staff, more than 100 PhD students and 400 postgraduate taught students. It harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health, primary care and preventive medicine. The Institute is organised into six research Centres which complement the Institute’s strategic plan and have Centre-specific objectives and requirements.

The postholder will be based in the Centre for Primary Care’s Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) and can choose academic supervision from across the Institute. The CEG carries out research to improve population health, reduce health inequalities, and innovate, develop, and deliver quality improvement programmes using electronic health records from primary care, acute care and other settings.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

The academic post is based at the Whitechapel Campus, London. It is a fixed term appointment for 5 years, with one year probationary period, and an expected start date in September 2026. Applications for a less than full-time post will be considered.