NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology

Do you want the opportunity to develop your existing academic experience in a supportive and inspirational environment where you can establish your clinical academic career?

Applications are invited for a NIHR Integrated Academic Training Clinical Lecturer post. The post is available for up to four years, according to the clinical training needs of the successful candidate to obtain a CCT. You will join the vibrant Integrated Clinical Academic Training programme at Leeds which provides a supportive research environment to develop independent, novel research alongside your clinical specialist training leading to full registration within the specialty programme and CCT. You will be awarded a training contract with the Regional Postgraduate Dean in the specialist registrar/specialty trainee grade (or equivalent), an honorary contract with the appropriate NHS Trust and you must already be at a minimum level of ST3. The successful candidate will continue or establish a new research programme with opportunities to align to current staff members' research interests including, but not limited to the themes of cardio metabolic disease, cardiac imaging, data analytics, and heart failure. You will undertake internationally regarded research and have the benefit of senior academic support in making grant applications, as well as independent mentoring on career progression. You will also share responsibility for delivering high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes. You will hold (or have submitted) your PhD/MD at the time you apply and will provide evidence that you have been fully awarded your degree by the time you take up the post. The post is located in the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine (LICAMM), University of Leeds and NHS Trust Premises at Leeds General Infirmary. The successful applicant must be in post by 31 March 2019. 

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Dr Ric Cubbon Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, LICAMM, University of Leeds. Tel: +44 (0)113 343 0785, email: R.Cubbon@leeds.ac.uk or Dr Rob Sapsford, Clinical Training Programme Director, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.Email: r.sapsford@nhs.net