"Clinical Research Fellow"

Job id: 093445. Salary: £63,152 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 29 July 2024. Closing date: 12 August 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: SCMMS Southbank.

Contact details: Tiffany Patterson. Tiffany.Patterson@gstt.nhs.uk

Location: St Thomas' Campus. Category: Research.

About us

The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences (SCMMS), is one of six schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM) at King College London. The School drives translation of world-leading basic science into advances in clinical practices with activities focusing on the Cardiac Biomedicine Department of Diabetes and Vascular Biomedicine.

About the role

This is a clinical research role with the intention of supporting a fellow in applications for external grant funding and to provide the basis of PhD in Cardiovascular Science. The postgraduate student will be performing clinical research in patients with valvular heart disease including obtaining ethical approval, participant recruitment and data collection and analysis. 

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years, with proposed employment start dates of 1st October 2024 – 30th September 2027.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Registered with GMC
2. Medical degree
3. Intercalated Science degree (at least 2:1)
4. Enrolled on Cardiology Specialty Training Programme
5. Postgraduate research experience in healthcare- e.g. MSc
6. Good verbal and written communication skills
7. Good interpersonal skills; ability to work co-operatively within the group

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of supervision of students
2. Experience of writing for publication
3. Good organisational skills

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. 

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.