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Clinical Trials Fellow in Paediatric Oncology ST3 equivalent
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,825 - £70,425 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 June 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7192244/317-TD-25-051-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This exciting new post will offer a foundational training in clinical research and Paediatric Oncology and Haematology. It is intended for trainees with paediatric experience who wish to gain experience in clinical research or develop this as a career aim.
The role will include collaboration in the development of new trial therapies for international development.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This post will be for 12 months. It will provide training in the practical delivery and development of clinical trials and all clinical aspects of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology. This position will be in the Department of Paediatric Oncology (Royal Victoria Infirmary) within the Children's Directorate of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson on 0191 2824068 or email Quentin.Campbellhewson@nhs.net or Professor Simon Bailey on 0191 2824068 or email Simon.Bailey@ncl.ac.uk.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
The postholder will focus on clinical research within the unit. This may involve identification and recruitment of patients for trials, the care and assessment of patients on study, the organisation and co-ordination of the investigations required and completion of components of research Case report Forms. We will engage the trainee in international investigator teleconferences, Genomic tumour advisory boards, our regional relapse MDT for the North of Britain and the annual ITCC and Accelerate meetings. We will expect the trainee to jointly start development of a new early phase trial for children and young people with cancer.
The post will also include the responsibility and supervision of children (both in-patient, day case and out-patient) with leukaemia, solid tumours and adolescents with malignancies. This will include
• children teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours
• teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours
• young people with brain tumours
• Young People receiving Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy
The post holder will gain experience in the clinical management of young people with a comprehensive range malignancies and haematological disorders.
Administrative:
• The postholder will support the clinical research team comprising research nurses, clinical trial-co-ordinators and data managers.
• The postholder will support the co-ordination and delivery of the weekly North of Britain ECMC Relapse MDT
• The postholder will assist in the maintenance of the UKCCCR New Agents Group New therapies Newsletter and co-ordination of meetings of the New Agents group while the chair of this group is based in Newcastle (tenure until 2027)
• The post holder will be involved in the administration of the Paediatric Oncology Unit. He/she will be responsible for ensuring the documentation of all patients on the Unit, and the discharge summaries, are kept up to date. He/she will supervise the junior staff to ensure this.
• The postholder will be responsible with other junior colleagues for the administration of out of hours cover for the paediatric oncology unit.
Research:
• The post holder will be encouraged to undertake a clinical research project, quality improvement or audit. It is expected that this will be in the development and delivery of clinical research. A basic grounding in the concepts underpinning preclinical research will be provided. They may also interact with the major research team of the department:-
• The Leukaemic Stem Cell as a therapeutic target
• Chromosomal abnormalities within ALL
• The molecular pathology of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma;
• The clinical and molecular pharmacology of anti-cancer agents;
• The epidemiology of childhood malignancies.
• Long term follow up and survivorship
Teaching:
• The postholder will undertake clinical trial training and training in Good Clinical Practice in Clinical trials.
• The post holder will also be expected to participate in the unit teaching programme.
• They will also be expected to teach at the bedside undergraduate and medical students.
• The trust has a dedicated Training and Medical Education department offering face to face and online training.
• Within the paediatric Directorate there are daily morning teaching sessions and a weekly grand round.
• In paediatric oncology there is a weekly junior medical staff driven teaching and journal club session and there is weekly targeted training sessions by the Consultant of the week. Our preclinical research unit provides a curriculum of weekly oncology research presentations including local national and international speakers.
This advert closes on Wednesday 21 May 2025
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This exciting new post will offer a foundational training in clinical research and Paediatric Oncology and Haematology. It is intended for trainees with paediatric experience who wish to gain experience in clinical research or develop this as a career aim.
The role will include collaboration in the development of new trial therapies for international development.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This post will be for 12 months. It will provide training in the practical delivery and development of clinical trials and all clinical aspects of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology. This position will be in the Department of Paediatric Oncology (Royal Victoria Infirmary) within the Children's Directorate of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact:Dr Quentin Campbell-Hewson on 0191 2824068 or email Quentin.Campbellhewson@nhs.net or Professor Simon Bailey on 0191 2824068 or email Simon.Bailey@ncl.ac.uk.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
The postholder will focus on clinical research within the unit. This may involve identification and recruitment of patients for trials, the care and assessment of patients on study, the organisation and co-ordination of the investigations required and completion of components of research Case report Forms. We will engage the trainee in international investigator teleconferences, Genomic tumour advisory boards, our regional relapse MDT for the North of Britain and the annual ITCC and Accelerate meetings. We will expect the trainee to jointly start development of a new early phase trial for children and young people with cancer.
The post will also include the responsibility and supervision of children (both in-patient, day case and out-patient) with leukaemia, solid tumours and adolescents with malignancies. This will include
• children teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours
• teenagers and adolescents with extracranial solid tumours
• young people with brain tumours
• Young People receiving Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy
The post holder will gain experience in the clinical management of young people with a comprehensive range malignancies and haematological disorders.
Administrative:
• The postholder will support the clinical research team comprising research nurses, clinical trial-co-ordinators and data managers.
• The postholder will support the co-ordination and delivery of the weekly North of Britain ECMC Relapse MDT
• The postholder will assist in the maintenance of the UKCCCR New Agents Group New therapies Newsletter and co-ordination of meetings of the New Agents group while the chair of this group is based in Newcastle (tenure until 2027)
• The post holder will be involved in the administration of the Paediatric Oncology Unit. He/she will be responsible for ensuring the documentation of all patients on the Unit, and the discharge summaries, are kept up to date. He/she will supervise the junior staff to ensure this.
• The postholder will be responsible with other junior colleagues for the administration of out of hours cover for the paediatric oncology unit.
Research:
• The post holder will be encouraged to undertake a clinical research project, quality improvement or audit. It is expected that this will be in the development and delivery of clinical research. A basic grounding in the concepts underpinning preclinical research will be provided. They may also interact with the major research team of the department:-
• The Leukaemic Stem Cell as a therapeutic target
• Chromosomal abnormalities within ALL
• The molecular pathology of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma;
• The clinical and molecular pharmacology of anti-cancer agents;
• The epidemiology of childhood malignancies.
• Long term follow up and survivorship
Teaching:
• The postholder will undertake clinical trial training and training in Good Clinical Practice in Clinical trials.
• The post holder will also be expected to participate in the unit teaching programme.
• They will also be expected to teach at the bedside undergraduate and medical students.
• The trust has a dedicated Training and Medical Education department offering face to face and online training.
• Within the paediatric Directorate there are daily morning teaching sessions and a weekly grand round.
• In paediatric oncology there is a weekly junior medical staff driven teaching and journal club session and there is weekly targeted training sessions by the Consultant of the week. Our preclinical research unit provides a curriculum of weekly oncology research presentations including local national and international speakers.
This advert closes on Wednesday 21 May 2025
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