Job summary
The post is based in the Imperial College Infection Service primarily between Charing Cross Hospital (Medical Mycology Laboratory) and Hammersmith (Immunocompromised patient groups). The Trust Fellowship is 90% Research and 10% Clinical and will enable exposure to all aspects of fungal disease clinically and from a research perspective. The primary aim of the post will be to deliver a clinical analytic electronic healthcare record data platform to enable systematic delivery of antifungal stewardship data capture, analytics, patient identification and digital health interventions. It will represent an outstanding opportunity for sub-specialist training in invasive fungal disease clinical management, antifungal stewardship, digital health interventions and clinical analytics approaches.
The Fellow will seek to both undertake a retrospective 3 year analysis to identify all patients with invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare during the COVID era, as well as development of a real-world prospective analysis that will link to an antifungal dashboard. This will allow is to generate real-time data on patients with invasive fungal disease to enable systematic antifungal stewardship.
The program will be supported by the core multidisciplinary antifungal stewardship team (Meg Coleman Respiratory, and Darius Armstrong-James Medical Mycology, Mark Gilchrist and Richard Wilson Pharmacy).
Main duties of the job
The Fellow will divide their time between research 90% and clinical duties 10%, which will be primarily supporting the Fungal MDT and antifungal stewardship program. There will be a degree of flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate's preferences and interest. However the primary aim will be to develop electronic health systems for antifungal stewardship and undertake data analysis focussed on prescribing, diagnostics and outcomes in our populations with fungal disease.
About us
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is funded by a recent industrial sponsorship to enable fungal disease stewardship, funded by Gilead Sciences. The key job descriptors are as follows:
1 To provide outstanding training for an infection or respiratory clinical trainee to digital methods in antifungal
stewardship, and medical mycology.
2 To develop the necessary data informatics pipelines and analytical approaches required to undertake retrospective and prospective analysis of the incidence, treatment and outcome from invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare.
3 To undertake a 3 year retrospective analysis of the incidence and outcome from invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare, with a focus on emerging groups of risk patients, such as those receiving novel
immunomodulators and those patients in critical care.
4 To characterise the impact of viral pneumonia on critical care invasive fungal disease and antifungal usage and
expenditure
5 To undertake a prospective analysis of invasive fungal disease incidence and outcomes at Imperial College
Healthcare
6 To develop an antifungal stewardship dashboard to enable real-time visualisation of integrated clinical and prescribing data on all patients with a diagnosis of invasive fungal disease and those patients receiving antifungal therapy.
7 To public disseminate the outputs of the Fellowship through presentation of data at national and international
conferences as well as through the preparation of high-quality original research manuscripts.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post is funded by a recent industrial sponsorship to enable fungal disease stewardship, funded by Gilead Sciences. The key job descriptors are as follows:
1 To provide outstanding training for an infection or respiratory clinical trainee to digital methods in antifungal
stewardship, and medical mycology.
2 To develop the necessary data informatics pipelines and analytical approaches required to undertake retrospective and prospective analysis of the incidence, treatment and outcome from invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare.
3 To undertake a 3 year retrospective analysis of the incidence and outcome from invasive fungal disease at Imperial College Healthcare, with a focus on emerging groups of risk patients, such as those receiving novel
immunomodulators and those patients in critical care.
4 To characterise the impact of viral pneumonia on critical care invasive fungal disease and antifungal usage and
expenditure
5 To undertake a prospective analysis of invasive fungal disease incidence and outcomes at Imperial College
Healthcare
6 To develop an antifungal stewardship dashboard to enable real-time visualisation of integrated clinical and prescribing data on all patients with a diagnosis of invasive fungal disease and those patients receiving antifungal therapy.
7 To public disseminate the outputs of the Fellowship through presentation of data at national and international
conferences as well as through the preparation of high-quality original research manuscripts.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oPrimary medical qualification
- oFull GMC registration
Desirable
Other Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- oUnderstanding of the principles of clinical governance
- oUnderstanding and experience of audit projects
- oAbility to critically appraised a paper
Desirable
- oEvidence of service audit
- oExperience of junior team rota & annual leave coordination
- oEvidence of academic training
- oTraining in research methodology
Experience
Essential
- oGood history & examination skills
- oAble to formulate a working diagnosis
- oAble to order appropriate investigations
- oImage interpretation relevant to practise
- oAcknowledge own limitations knowing when to appropriately seek assistance from senior colleagues
- oExperience of doing shifts at SHO level
Desirable
- oExperience of working as an SHO in infectious diseases
Clinical skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical skills, experience and interest in Infectious diseases
- Broad based medical knowledge
Desirable
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Particular interest in Infectious diseases
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oPrimary medical qualification
- oFull GMC registration
Desirable
Other Requirements
Essential
- oAbility to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- oUnderstanding of the principles of clinical governance
- oUnderstanding and experience of audit projects
- oAbility to critically appraised a paper
Desirable
- oEvidence of service audit
- oExperience of junior team rota & annual leave coordination
- oEvidence of academic training
- oTraining in research methodology
Experience
Essential
- oGood history & examination skills
- oAble to formulate a working diagnosis
- oAble to order appropriate investigations
- oImage interpretation relevant to practise
- oAcknowledge own limitations knowing when to appropriately seek assistance from senior colleagues
- oExperience of doing shifts at SHO level
Desirable
- oExperience of working as an SHO in infectious diseases
Clinical skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical skills, experience and interest in Infectious diseases
- Broad based medical knowledge
Desirable
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Particular interest in Infectious diseases
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
