Paediatric Senior Clinical Research Fellowships:

NIHR Clinical Research Facility (CRF) Paediatric Senior clinical research fellow in field of vaccines, infectious diseases, respiratory or immunology. Paediatric fellowships are open to those training in or wishing to develop a clinical or research interest in vaccines, infectious diseases, respiratory or immunology, or associated field (such as infections of respiratory disease). This will be a Senior role depending on experience and level of current training.

At least 50% of your time will be spent on research service provision providing medical support and cover to adult and paediatric studies occurring in the CRF and at the Wessex Research Hubs in Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Weymouth. The remaining time will be study based support for NIHR HTA funded trials. Depending on the desires of the fellow, there will be support for an application to be made for a formal externally funded research training fellowship and registration for study towards a higher degree (usually PhD or MD). 

The post will be appointed for 1 year in the first instance, depending on the candidate’s needs. Where appropriate, funding may be extended by fixed time periods where academic progress is considered satisfactory.