Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Hiv and - London, United Kingdom - Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Main duties and responsibilities:

Day to day support of ongoing clinical trials and other studies.
Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
Development of own clinical research projects.
Under Consultant supervision, to be responsible for the clinical care of patients attending the HIV/ID service including those participating in the clinical trials liaising with colleagues to ensure they receive the best standard of clinical care.

The HIV service provided by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is recognised as an international Centre of Excellence for HIV care.

It serves the inpatient and outpatient needs of over 3000 people with HIV and has the largest cohort of women with HIV in the country.

It has an inpatient HIV unit and runs specialist consultant-led clinics within the department including in viral hepatitis, TB, cardiology, renal disease, rheumatology, ageing and frailty, chronic fatigue, lipid disorders, AIN,gynaecologyand psychiatry.

For stable patients on medication e-clinics are in place, which are both Doctor and Nurse led.

Care in all areas of medicine is increasingly being provided at a network level and the department is active in developing and strengthening links with our clinical colleagues across the North Central London Network.

The HIV department has a dedicated researchteamand many patients are involved inclinicaltrials including those for new antivirals, primary HIV infections andquestionnaire basedstudies.

More recently, the Royal Free hasestablisheda dedicated vaccine trial research team. This team successfully delivered on large scale Covid vaccine trials during the pandemic.

The vaccine trials team have morelarge-scalevaccine trials (Phase 1 through to 3) about to open and others on the horizon.

The post-holder will help support delivery and oversight of these trials.

More detailed job description and person specification documents are available in the documents section.