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clinical rESEARCH fellow / senior clinical RESEARCH fellow in DIFFICULT asthma – Fixed TERM 12 months
Base: GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY / STOBHILL AMBULATORY CARE HOSPITAL
Applications are invited for the above post in Respiratory Medicine, based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) and Stobhill Ambulatory Care Hospital (SACH). This post is available for 12 months and is outside the MTAS process.
The Difficult Asthma Service is a Tertiary Referral service for the North-East Sector and Lanarkshire. There is an active Multidisciplinary Team including 2 Consultants, a GP with a Special Interest, a Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist and a Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist with support from the large clinical physiology team based both in GRI and SACH. There are close links with the GRI Clinical Research Facility and also with other Difficult Asthma Services across the city. The Difficult Asthma Service includes a weekly clinic for review of the large cohort of patients and also a weekly clinic for administration of omalizumab injections. We expect to be able to provide treatment with the novel anti-IL-5 antibody, mepolizumab, later this year.
Our active clinical research program has an expanding portfolio of activity with interests including identification of strategies to improve treatment adherence in the difficult asthma population, development of non-steroidal treatment options, the association of vitamin D with asthma, the potential role of pulmonary rehabilitation in this cohort, and the use of biomarkers in treatment rationalisation. We contribute to the UK wide BTS Difficult Asthma Registry and are participating in the UK Refractory Asthma Stratification Programme, a multicentre, MRC-funded project. Other research activities include participation in multi-centre trials both commercial and non-commercial. This new post has been developed to offer training and research opportunities in difficult asthma and respiratory medicine, whilst providing clinical service support both to the expanding difficult asthma service and to general medical and respiratory services within GRI.
Candidates would preferably be in possession of MRCP (UK) or equivalent, have appropriate experience in General and Respiratory Medicine ideally including some experience in management of difficult asthma; although these are not essential requirements and training will be provided in post. Applicants should be planning to continue in a career in Respiratory Medicine or a related specialty.
We would welcome applications from doctors at level CMT2/ST2 or above looking for a one year research break to consolidate their training, or from senior respiratory trainees considering a pre or post-CCT senior fellowship with subspecialty training.
Clinical duties will include participation in the difficult asthma service, as well as general respiratory inpatient and outpatient work, and general medical on-call.
The post-holder will also be given the opportunity to undertake a period of supervised clinical research, leading to the award of an MD or other higher degree.
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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.