Clinical Research Fellow in Metabolic Bone Disease

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Main area Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Clinical Research Fellow Contract Fixed term: 12 months (with possible extension to further 12 months) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (other) Job --DPBC

Site Birmingham Children's Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £76,582 - £77,348 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

This is a full-time NHS training post in a tertiary paediatric endocrinology and diabetes service. The applicant will join a busy and progressive team delivering paediatric endocrinology and bone services within Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond.

The fellow post is funded as part of the nationally funded, highly specialised service for complex and atypical osteogenesis imperfecta.

This full-time tertiary training post is for a maximum of 2 years, designed to train the applicant to tertiary level, as defined by ESPE and BSPED (  ) . However, it is not recognised for training by the Postgraduate Dean and does not form part of the paediatric run-through training programme. The applicant must have reached CCT in paediatrics or completed stage ST6 (or equivalent) in paediatric training.

Therefore, this post is either a post-CCT fellowship or an Out Of Programme Experience (OOPE) post, subject to approval by the applicant’s local deanery. Applicants are expected to have previous paediatric endocrine exposure, and research experience and interest. The post has two main components; 50% of the time is committed to outpatient clinic commitment covering paediatric endocrinology and metabolic bone disease, including highly specialised clinics;

the other 50% is for clinical research. There is no commitment to diabetes, acute/general paediatrics, out of duty hours hospital@night or on-call involved.

There is no on-call commitment for this post.

The successful applicant is expected to take active part in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and the training of other relevant staff groups. This includes the mentoring of junior medical staff.

Clinical Research is one of the strengths of this Department and the metabolic bone team. 50% of the applicant’s time is committed to clinical and translational research. The applicant is expected to develop personal research studies, assist in recruitment of clinical trials and present their work at national and international meetings.

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