BHP Clinician Scientist

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £93,666 to £126,281

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to 5 years

Closes: 13/09/2024

Background

Birmingham Health Partners (BHP) is a strategic alliance of five NHS Trusts (Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust), Health Innovation West Midlands, Aston University, and the University of Birmingham which aims to transform the health, wellbeing and economic growth of our city-region.

Our collaboration spans the full spectrum of the translational pipeline from basic science, through a complete range of NIHR experimental medicine infrastructure to cutting-edge clinical practice, creating one of the country’s most comprehensive Health Science Systems.

This is now the third round of the pioneering BHP Clinician-Scientist Programme, a postdoctoral initiative to help develop the very best of the next generation of clinical academics. 

The programme includes wrap-around career development to target fully funded, highly prestigious, external clinical intermediate fellowships such as the MRC Clinician Scientist, NIHR Advanced Fellowships or equivalent Wellcome schemes, amongst other funding opportunities. 

While we welcome enquiries from all types of postdoctoral healthcare professionals, the scheme usually supports medically qualified applicants who are clinically active and who have recently completed specialist clinical training (or are about to). 

The programme funds a 10PA consultant-level job plan with a 50:50 split between clinical activities at one of partner NHS Trusts and one of our universities. We are open to all clinical specialties. The interests of the appointee will be allied to the needs of the relevant clinical service and defined following appointment. 

The programme is designed with two clear exits in mind. The first is a fully funded intermediate fellowship, or equivalent comprehensive funding, and subsequent transition to a permanent clinical academic contract in one of our partner universities. The second is a transition with a firm commitment to a permanent NHS consultant contract with one of our partner NHS Trusts. 

To enable these outcomes, the initial contract will be fixed term for 5 years including a 3-year probation period with annual joint appraisal. Review with the appointee in the third year will assess individual future career trajectory and determine either continuation as a university-based staff member or transition within the remaining contract to a full-time permanent NHS consultant position. 

Post is open to applicants already based within the West Midlands and those looking to move from outside the region.

Person Specification

Qualifications 

• Higher Degree (PhD or MD)

For medically qualified, hospital-based:

• Full/Eligible for GMC Registration 
• Inclusion on, or within 6 months of inclusion on, the Specialist Register in a secondary care GMC specialty or Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK Certificate Completion of Training 
• Evidence of higher specialty exams (e.g. MRCP, MRCS, MRCPCH, MRCOG, MRCPsych etc or equivalent)

Further particulars can be found here

Informal enquiries to Professor Lorraine Harper, email: l.harper@bham.ac.uk

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