Location: | Nottingham |
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Salary: | £38,619 to £65,955 per annum (pro-rata if applicable) depending on skills and experience. |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 14th May 2024 |
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Closes: | 11th June 2024 |
Job Ref: | MED155424 |
The post is available as part of a £23.3M NIHR award to Nottingham for a Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The post is based in the Respiratory Theme of the BRC within the Centre for Respiratory Research. The Clinical Research Fellow appointed to the post will perform translational research studies in rare lung diseases. The post is also aligned to the LifeArc National Translational Centre for Rare Respiratory Diseases, a national initiative to transform the care of rare lung diseases including disease phenotyping, modelling, drug screening and clinical trials.
The Clinical Research Fellow would be expected to register for, and undertake supervised research towards, a higher research degree (PhD/research DM) on the University of Nottingham’s well-established, highly successful nTRANS Doctoral Training Programme. All tuition fees will be covered by the Nottingham Respiratory Biomedical Research Centre.
The Clinical Research Fellow will ideally have completed core medical training and ideally obtained MRCP(UK)/MRCP(CH) or equivalent. They will be expected to plan and conduct work using approaches or methodologies and techniques appropriate to the type of research and will be responsible for writing up their work for publication. Applicants should have excellent IT skills, good team working skills and able to work flexibly.
This post is offered on a full time (38.5 hours per week), fixed-term contract for three years from 1 August 2024, however if the start date is delayed the contract must end on 31 July 2027.
The University of Nottingham is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Requests for secondment from internal candidates may be considered on the basis that prior agreement has been sought from both your current line manager and the manager of your substantive post, if you are already undertaking a secondment role.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Lung fibrosis / Rare diseases: Professor Simon Johnson simon.johnson@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.
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