Research Fellow in Integrated Sexual Health (ST1) in London inLondon PUBLISHED THU 23 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated doctor to work in Barts Health NHS Trust Sexual Health Services as a research clinical fellow in a 12 month fixed term post, to commence in mid February 2025. The main portion of the post holder's job plan will, after training, be to work in the research clinical trials unit on sexual health and HIV related studies. There is also a smaller general clinical component to the role where the post holder will receive clinical supervision in seeing general unselected sexual health patients.

We operate 2 Centres of Excellence and multiple satellite services for Sexual Health across our East London network seeing over 100,000 attendances per year. We offer services 6 days a week including evening clinics. Barts Health has a cohort of approximately 5,000 HIV positive patients who are diverse in terms of ethnicity, sexuality and gender. We also see a high proportion of late presenters as in-patients.

The post is suitable for those interested in pursuing a career in Genitourinary Medicine or Community Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. This post will provide a fantastic chance to gain wide clinical and research experience, excellent supervision and many teaching and training opportunities in integrated sexual health.

Previous experience in the specialties would be an advantage but is not necessary as training will be given.

We intend to interview in January 2025

The post-holder will work as part of our expanding GUM & HIV research group - The SHARE collaborative - based within the Ambrose King Centre and Queen Mary University of London.The post holder will be the lead junior doctor assigned to ongoing NIHR and commercial HIV prevention and long acting antiretroviral treatment trials, involved in patient recruitment and follow up, gaining experience of implementation of research trials in ISH walk in and HIV outpatient clinic settings. In addition the post-holder will assist with current and forthcoming mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) research within SHARE, according to need and the post-holder's experience.

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