Clinical Research Fellow

University of Glasgow

Job Objective

The Scientific Analysis Fellow will undertake agreed analysis and academic actions to develop new strategies to enhance affected person care. The publish is roughly 50% analysis and 50% medical and can initially be for 12 months however could also be mutually prolonged for an extra 12 months. The Tutorial Unit of Anaesthesia, Essential Care and Perioperative Medication exists to advertise the schooling of undergraduate and postgraduate college students in anaesthesia, intensive care and perioperative drugs, and to steer the event of recent strategies to enhance affected person care in these areas.

Scientific Duties will likely be undertaken underneath an honorary contract with the related NHS Organisation at an applicable trainee degree.

Generally, these posts are designed to facilitate the completion of an MD/PhD however this isn’t necessary. Additional, ought to a candidate want, time could be made accessible inside the fellowship to undertake a certificates/diploma/masters in medical schooling (for instance).   

Major Duties and Duties

Analysis Duties

•           Plan, design and implement tasks or components of tasks, along side collaborators as applicable.

•           Write and submit functions for funding and Ethics and Analysis Administration approval, as applicable and along side principal investigators.

•           Handle information dealing with and interpretation of analysis outcomes and take the lead in writing papers for publication in applicable peer-reviewed journals.

•           Collaborate with colleagues and take part in staff conferences/discussions and departmental analysis group actions.

•           As a part of a staff of ‘native investigators’, recruit sufferers to a portfolio of ongoing multicentre research inside the medical web site the place relevant.

•           Current work at inside and exterior seminars and nationwide and worldwide conferences to boost the profile of the analysis group.

•           Contribute to the organisation of project-related workshops, seminars or conferences.

•           The Analysis Fellow will likely be anticipated to participate within the Tutorial actions of the Tutorial Unit of Anaesthesia, Ache & Essential Care Medication. These embrace, undergraduate instructing and analysis. The Analysis Fellows are anticipated to attend and current at an everyday Journal Membership and Analysis conferences.

Instructing 

•           Supervising medical expertise classes/helping with Acute Care days for 2nd, third, 4th & last 12 months MBChB & Dental college students.

•           Contributing to the Essential Care and Perioperative Medication BSc programs.

•           Delivering instructing on the West of Scotland main FRCA course.

•           Following applicable coaching, performing as an OSCE examiner for medical college students in any respect levels of the MBChB course.

Scientific Duties could also be undertaken at numerous websites inside the West of Scotland. Generally, fellows can count on to rotate between a minimum of two of those websites throughout a two-year fellowship:

Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley 

•           Each on-call and full shifts for theatre, Obstetrics and ICU as required in keeping with the currant 1A banding complement.

•           The banding complement related to this rota might change and will likely be in keeping with the European Working Time Rules and the New Deal.

Golden Jubilee Nationwide Hospital, Clydebank  

•           Presently three classes per week contributing to the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care on-call rota. This on-call rota is on common one 12-hours shift per week and two 12-hour shifts each 5 weekends plus potential cowl.

•           Present banding is 1A, the banding complement related to this rota could also be topic to alter and will likely be in keeping with the European Working time Rules and the New Deal.

Inverclyde Royal Infirmary, Greenock 

•           On-call for theatre and ICU as required in keeping with the present 1A banding complement.

•           The banding complement related to this rota might change and will likely be in keeping with the European Working Time Rules and the New Deal.

Glasgow Royal Infirmary 

•           GRI will be capable of accommodate candidates from a non-anaesthetic background (who is probably not anticipated to rotate to all different websites) so long as the applicant has airway competencies.

•           Scientific dedication will include ICU shifts for candidates from a non-anaesthetic background and ICU/common anaesthetic/obstetric days/shifts for candidates with an anaesthetic background.

•           Common medical hours/ week would be the equal of seven x 12.5-13 hour shifts in a 4-week interval.

•           Banding for the ICU rota is 1A and for the final anaesthetic rota 2B. The banding dietary supplements related to these rotas might change and will likely be in keeping with the European Working Time Rules and the New Deal.

Crosshouse College Hospital 

•           Crosshouse will be capable of accommodate candidates from a non-anaesthetic coaching background (who wouldn’t be anticipated to rotate to all different websites) so long as the applicant has airway competencies.

•           Scientific dedication will include ICU shifts for candidates from a non-anaesthetic background and ICU/common anaesthetic/obstetric days/shifts for candidates with an anaesthetic background.

•           Common medical hours/ week would be the equal of seven x 12.5-13 hour shifts in a 4-week interval.

•           Banding for the rota is 1A.

Information, {Qualifications} 

Important: 

A1. Registrable medical diploma (e.g. MBChB).
A2. Registered by the GMC and holding a Licence to Apply.

For jobs at Royal Alexandra Hospital, Golden Jubilee Nationwide Hospital and Inverclyde Royal Infirmary: 

A3. Equal of two years’ expertise in Anaesthesia and / or Intensive Care Medication

A4. Royal Faculty of Anaesthetists certificates of completion of Core Anaesthetic Coaching (or equal)

A5. Main Fellowship of the Royal Faculty of Anaesthetists (FRCA) examination (or equal)

For jobs at Glasgow Royal Infirmary & Crosshouse Hospital: 

A3. Completion of ACCS core coaching / core anaesthetic coaching or proof of equivalence.

A4. Royal Faculty of Anaesthetist Preliminary Evaluation of Competence (IAC – or equal), and proof of upkeep of airway expertise.

A5. Main a part of MRCP/ MCEM / FRCA or equal.

Fascinating: 

B1. Motivation to begin analysis resulting in a future larger diploma.
B2. Further specialist {qualifications}.

Expertise/Coaching Important: 

C1. Proof of passable profession progress.
C2. Proof of related expertise supplied by private log of labor. 

C3. Demonstrable proof of curiosity in analysis.

Fascinating: 

D1. Proof of participation in Audit / Analysis actions.
D2. Proof of a deliberate or proposed, programme of analysis. 

D3. Curiosity in and information of the relevance of analysis.
D4. Further specialist expertise. 

D5. Proof of instructing expertise.
D6. Proof of administrative expertise.

Abilities Important: 

E1. Potential to see tasks via to completion.
E2. Proof of organisational and communication expertise (each written and oral). 

E3. Management qualities.
E4. In a position to relate nicely with sufferers and different members of the well being care staff. 

E5. Information and expertise confirmed by summative evaluation.
E6. Ready to rotate as specified. 

E7. Proof of Hepatitis B immune standing.*
E8. Pre-employment well being screening.*

Fascinating: 

F1. Dedication to staff working.
F2. Proof of applicable degree of confidence i.e. capable of work underneath stress however understands limitations and when to hunt assist. 

F3. Potential to prioritise when underneath stress.
F4. Proof of enthusiasm for instructing.

Job Options 

Analysis and Instructing 

Analysis could be undertaken on the main hospitals all through the west of Scotland, the situation relying on the curiosity of the candidate. Among the particular alternatives accessible at this spherical are detailed beneath. Any of those clinicians could be approached for additional data.

At Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Dr Kathryn Puxty is engaged in analysis involving vital care datasets and long run outcomes. Present work contains most cancers therapy pre and publish ICU, renal restoration after vital sickness and use of AI interrogation in vital care dataset analyses.

On the Queen Elizabeth College Hospital Prof. Malcolm Sim and Dr. Malcolm Watson are concerned in numerous vital care trials. Present areas for a better diploma would come with:

•           Metabolomics and sepsis

•           Mitochondrial dysfunction in vital sickness

•           Excessive move nasal oxygen remedy (presently exploring new areas to be used)

•           Novel nebuliser expertise

•           Delirium”

On the Golden Jubilee Nationwide Hospital Prof. Ben Shelley and Dr Philip McCall are engaged a number of work streams exploring perioperative proper ventricular dysfunction, mechanisms of peri-operative myocardial damage and the utility of coronary heart price restoration in pre-operative threat evaluation. This group are actively searching for a analysis fellow to contribute to a serious challenge inspecting the Incidence, impression and Mechanisms of Perioperative Proper VEntricular dysfunction in sufferers present process main non-cardiac surgical procedure (IMPRoVE) which is able to recruit sufferers present process main vascular, colorectal, upper-GI, orthopaedic and thoracic surgical procedure from throughout the town.

On the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Dr Chris Hawthorne has an curiosity within the software of physiological modelling strategies and medical informatics to enhance the care of mind injured sufferers. 

If a possible fellow has an space of curiosity not talked about above, the division can often accommodate different tasks, so please get in touch for additional discussions. Candidates are anticipated to have recognized a possible supervisor and description programme of labor previous to interview.

Commonplace Phrases & Situations 

Wage will likely be on the Scientific Analysis Fellow scale:  £38,704 – £57,349 each year

The publish carries a further entitlement relying on “on name” duties. That is paid underneath a separate association with the NHS for which the College acts as paymaster solely.

This publish is offered for 12 months within the first occasion however would generally be prolonged to 24 months by mutual settlement.

Though this exercise constitutes a part of the job, the administration of the medical exercise would be the full duty of the NHS Organisation. Within the unlikely occasion that the NHS Organisation withdraws the honorary contract, the College will be unable to proceed this publish and see of termination will likely be served.

If you’re presently in a Kind 1 coaching publish you should maintain a Nationwide/Visiting Coaching quantity and have the settlement of your Postgraduate Dean to retain your authentic coaching quantity and to return to this publish on the finish of the appointment. This publish is nevertheless additionally open to candidates not presently holding a Nationwide Coaching Quantity. Relying on the analysis challenge undertaken, deliberate medical web site or rotation via websites, some analysis fellows have agreed by software to the postgraduate Dean in collaboration with the Coaching Programme Director that a part of their fellowship could be contributed in direction of coaching and it’s as much as RCA/postgraduate Dean to determine this.
This publish doesn’t provide an NTN quantity. Within the occasion that the appointee efficiently registers to do a better diploma the College won’t pay the charges, although as a member of College workers a reduced price construction applies. The work could also be carried out throughout or exterior regular working time and no additional assist will likely be supplied when the contract ends after one / two years.
The profitable applicant (if aged underneath 60) will likely be eligible to hitch the Universities’ Superannuation Scheme. Additional data relating to the scheme is offered from the Superannuation Officer, who can also be ready to advise on questions referring to the switch of Superannuation advantages. All analysis and associated actions, together with grants, donations, medical trials, contract analysis, consultancy and commercialisation are required to be managed via the College’s related processes (e.g. contractual and monetary), in accordance with the College Courtroom’s insurance policies.
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