Senior Clinical Research Fellow

The mission of the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement.

The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America.

The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes.

GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs.

GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public.

The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health.

GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Research Fellow to join the Molecular and Cellular Immunology Section at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOSICH).

The post is funded for 12 months.

This position is to provide clinical trial support to the internationally renowned advanced therapies group based in Molecular & Cellular Immunology section of Institute of Child Health.

It will provide an opportunity to work with cutting edge clinical researchers and interact across inter-disciplinary groups.

The gene and cell therapy group are involved in a portfolio of first in man trials involving rare diseases, strategies to improve immune responses to infection, leukaemia after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, somatic gene therapy for primary immunodeficiencies, HIV and inherited skin disorders.

The postholder must have paediatric experience and will be involved with the clinical care of gene therapy trial patients.

They will work closely with the immunology and gene therapy research teams.

About you

Applicants must have appropriate speciality in a paediatric setting and previous experience in clinical trials.

Expertise in gene and cell therapy, molecular biology or immunology and experience working in clinical trials is desirable but not essential.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/ If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Madhur Sharma on [email protected] quoting job reference