Clinical Research Fellow

The University of Edinburgh - CMVM - Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research

Full time: 40 hours per week

Fixed Term: 1 year

The Opportunity:

Our 12 month Clinical fellowship is aimed at enabling outstanding predoctoral clinical fellows to develop their ideas and pilot data to apply and obtain an externally funded clinical training PhD fellowship in a subject area related to the themes of the Edinburgh BHF Centre of Research Excellence: Heart Diseases, Stroke & Vascular Dementia, Cardiometabolism, Advanced Vascular Imaging, and Data Driven Innovation.

Applicants are expected to submit a brief plan for this future proposed PhD fellowship and detail how they will use this 12 month fellowship to support the PhD fellowship application. They must have already discussed this plan with a potential supervisor within our centre well in advance of submission and gained their support.

This post is full-time (40 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Outstanding predoctoral clinical fellow with motivation and enthusiasm to develop an excellent Clinical PhD fellowship application to external funding sources which fits within the themes of the Edinburgh BHF Centre of Research Excellence
• Excellent team player and collaborator to contribute as a key member of a team of researchers, under supervision from the Principal Investigator
• Exceptional communications skills and attention to detail to maintain accurate and up-to-date records to document research progress and take a lead role in writing up data for publication
• Drive and motivation to undertake training in in clinical and/or laboratory methods with the expectation to maintain clinical skills by some participation in clinical on-call, out-patient clinics, investigation lists and continuing professional development