Clinical Research Fellow | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,436.14 plus £10,100 recruitment premium per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 September 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC1V 2PD |
| Company: | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7361399/273-DC-1399 |
Summary
This medical retina clinical and research fellowship in Moorfields offers a unique experience for aspiring medical retina specialists to obtain the experience and knowledge in managing complex medical retina, genetics and uveitis cases essential for taking up a future consultant post. It also offers the opportunity to participate and be an investigator in exciting clinical trials including multi-centre and multi-national studies.
In this post as a medical retina clinical and research fellow in Moorfields Eye Hospital, you will spend half your time in the medical retina, uveitis and genetics clinics managing complex cases under the guidance and tutelage of senior consultants and the other half within the R&D department working within the clinical research facility as an investigator in numerous clinical trials.
The applicant should have completed their ophthalmology training locally and is seeking fellowship training in medical retina.
Ability to manage common medical retina pathology with experience in retinal laser treatment and intravitreal injection is required.
Applicants are required to be registered with the General Medical Council and hold a License to Practice.
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
Free 24/7 independent counselling service
Learning and development opportunities
Easy and quick transport links
A range of attractive benefits and discounts
Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
Free Pilates classes
Full support and training to develop your skills
Flexible working friendly organization
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
May vary, as outlined above, but will also include:
• Set up and run clinical trials in medical retina that may include genetic eye diseases, thyroid eye disease, optic nerve diseases and paediatric eye conditions.
• Familiarise with retinal vascular disease imaging interpretation and how management correlates with imaging characteristics.
• Participate in writing manuscripts.
• Identifying and recruiting patients to trials, delivery of trials and set up and initiate clinical studies
• Some of the clinical sessions (at least once a week) may take place in the Moorfields Satellite sites based outside City Road.
• Cataract surgery is not part of the Medical Retina fellowship-training programme; however there may infrequently be opportunities to operate during the 12-month period.
• Attendance at regular MR Fellows Teaching Sessions (typically 6, 1-hour sessions per week, including Fluorescein Angiography Meeting, Electrophysiology Teaching, Uveitis Teaching and Clinical / Research Tutorials).
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025