Clinical Research Fellow London, England
Job description
About us
The Liver Failure Group’s research focus is on translational research in complications of cirrhosis spanning investigation in model systems, to multi-centre clinical trials. The Cirrhocare study, aims to impact the high readmission rates of decompensated cirrhosis and evaluate the clinical effectiveness of a digital therapeutic management system, to allow community intervention and follow-up. Duties/Responsibilities: To ensure appropriate patients are screened and recruited in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and the study protocols of Cirrhocare, ensuring high quality data capture and analysis. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the submission of ethics, study design and databases around this study and sub-studies in advanced cirrhosis. In addition, they will have engagement with other activities within the research group, whilst also being involved in dissemination tasks such as drafting manuscripts and preparing presentations for conferences and meetings.
About the role
The postholder must have a medical degree, and have MRCP parts 1 and 2, and evidence ofadvanced training in Internal medicine, and substantive training in tertiarycentre Hepatology, including liver failure and liver transplantation. The postholder is also expected to have significant working knowledge of research inclinical trials in decompensated cirrhosis and demonstrate an ability to workwithin a team and delegate tasks as appropriate. It would be highly desirableif the post holder wished to pursue further independent research and a higherdegree such as a PhD and can show evidence of prior basic laboratory skills.
About you
We are seeking clinicians in training with a commitment to Hepatology and wishing to study a higher post-graduate degree (MD/PhD). The individual should be a team player, inherent curiosity for mechanisms of disease and be flexible, to undertake both clinical and laboratory work.
What we offer
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team working across the Division of Medicine. As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • Immigration loan • Relocation scheme for certain posts • On-Site nursery • On-site gym • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service • Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we knowdiversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community torepresent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality ofopportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourageapplications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’sworkforce. These include people from Black, Asian andethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silveraward, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancinggender equality.
