Research Physician: Sponsorship Available

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Job Summary

 

Part of the LDC’s portfolio of activity includes screening and prevention studies, Industry sponsored and Industry funded Investigator trials, multi-site and single site studies and a suite of studies around lifestyle and physical activity. Funders include those from the NIHR, MRC, Charities and Industry, and its senior investigators hold, or lead several prestigious NIHR awards. The LDC hosts the Commercial Research Delivery centre (CRDC) the East Midlands Applied Research Centre (ARC), the Centre for Ethnic Health Research, and Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), collaboration between the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) and the University of Leicester. It is located at Leicester General Hospital and encompasses a floor space of over 4000m2 which includes clinical assessment rooms, patient education facilities, large and small meeting rooms, a 4/5 space day ward, a state-of-the-art exercise and metabolic assessment lab and dual-emission X-ray absorptiometry for the gold standard assessment of body composition. In addition to this it hosts and co-ordinates the National DESMOND and EDEN programmes.

 

Main duties of the job

LDC now has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and inspirational Clinical Physician ( grade ST1-ST3 depending on experience) to join the LDC and work across the research portfolio and the clinical Diabetes service in a 50:50 split role. They will be working with a friendly and experienced team of nurses, clinicians and clinical academics, and be responsible for the clinical care of research participants during a study and working in the clinical diabetes service within the hospital setting. This will include assessing participant eligibility against trial protocols, undertaking consent, medical examinations including exercise testing, muscle biopsies and assessment, reviewing clinical data and managing any adverse events and/or medical emergencies. It will also provide the opportunity to undergo supervised training and gain valuable experience in the development and implementation of patient and healthy volunteer based research projects.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • 3 years or more post graduate training and experience in Diabetes and Metabolic medicine

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate participation in audit and quality improvement in patient care

Desirable

  • Demonstrate participation in research

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

  • IELTS score greater than 7.5 or OEB grade greater than B
  • Clear spoken and written English language skills

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate clinical and non-clinical skills relevant to Diabetes and research

Planning and organisation skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate ability to adapt to new systems of appraisal and assessments; time management skills

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrate basic technical skills relevant to Diabetes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 26 June 2025

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