Senior Fellow in Intestinal Failure and Clinical Nutrition

Job Description

Applications are invited for a Clinical Fellow position in Clinical Nutrition/Intestinal Failure, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham to provide advanced tertiary level training.The advanced fellow post is aimed at gastroenterologists who are nearing or have completed their CCT in Gastroenterology and have the required competency in diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy to facilitate the limited endoscopy service requirement for these posts. The posts may also be suitable to ST5-6 level gastroenterology trainees who have the required JAG certificates for gastroscopy and colonoscopy and where an aptitude has been proven in one of described sub-specialty disciplines.The post is designed to allow successful candidates to continue to develop their clinical skills and work towards an MD/PhD at the University of Birmingham. Each post will involve dedicated research time whilst providing specialist clinical training in one of the described sub-specialties. Each post is for a period of 12 months in the first instance but can be extended to two years depending on the candidate’s suitability and admission for a higher degree.The team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham are national leaders in their respective fields. There may be a number of exciting future strands to the group’s research portfolio including the use of spectroscopy and artificial intelligence for Barrett’s neoplasia detection, radiofrequency ablation for gastric antral vascular ectasia, pancreatic cysts, malignant biliary strictures and inlet patches and cryotherapy for early luminal neoplasia. The Clinical Nutrition and Intestinal Failure teams are actively researching in many areas including vitamin deficiencies (on-going PhD work with vitamin D and IBD), and sarcopenia, and continue to encourage development.Candidates will be expected to work on projects linked to translational research and audits in their respective sub-specialist fields.The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the endoscopy service to deliver scheduled weekend and evening endoscopy activity and backfill in the working week when required occasionally. The majority of time will be dedicated to improving the candidates’ clinical acumen in the relevant sub-specialty through dedicated out-patient activity and relevant in-patient work with the remaining time dedicated to research. Work will be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham site and the University of Birmingham campus.University Hospitals Birmingham represents the largest acute Trust in the country and as such has one of the largest and most ethnically diverse IBD, nutrition and advanced endoscopy populations in the UK. The nutrition, upper gastrointestinal, colorectal and hepatopancreatobilary cancer and liver transplant specialist MDTs for the region are established and centralised here and present a fantastic learning opportunity for the successful candidates. More detail is provided in the accompanying job description.There is a nutrition support team operating at Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals, and on occasions, service commitment may be required, but is primarily based at QEHB.The nutrition post will be supervised by Dr Sheldon Cooper.For a further discussion about the nature of the post please contact Dr Sheldon Cooper (sheldon.cooper@uhb.nhs.uk)Please submit an online application, ensuring you attach a copy of your CV. Please refer to the "Additional Information" link for further details on the Terms & Conditions applicable to this post.