Clinical Senior Lecturer/Clinical Reader/Clinical Chair in Haemato-oncology

Job summary

Applications are invited from outstanding individuals for a Clinical Senior Lecturer or Clinical Reader or Clinical Chair in Haemato-oncology within the Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Faculty of Medicine The Department comprises the Centre for Inflammatory Disease and the Centre for Haematology. The Department provides an outstanding research environment where scientists from clinical and non-clinical backgrounds work together to...

Job listing information

• Reference MED03594
• Date posted 16 January 2023
• Closing date 13 February 2023

Key information about the role

• Location Hammersmith Campus - Hybrid
• Position type Full time, permanent
• Salary £88,364 – £119,133 plus benefits
• Department Department of Immunology and Inflammation
• Category Academic & Teaching / Clinical Academic & Teaching

Job description

Job summary

Applications are invited from outstanding individuals for a Clinical Senior Lecturer or Clinical Reader or Clinical Chair in Haemato-oncology within the Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Faculty of Medicine The Department comprises the Centre for Inflammatory Disease and the Centre for Haematology. The Department provides an outstanding research environment where scientists from clinical and non-clinical backgrounds work together to advance understanding of mechanisms and causes of malignant and non-malignant blood diseases and chronic inflammatory conditions and to develop new translational approaches. It has a multidisciplinary approach and hosts excellent experimental programmes in basic and applied life sciences as well as clinical research.

Duties and responsibilities

You will join the haemato-oncology group within the Centre for Haematology and will contribute to the academic mission of Imperial College London to deliver world-class research, education and scholarship. In addition, you will also be required to contribute to administration within the Department.

All members of clinical academic staff are expected to be active and highly respected in clinical practice, in research, publishing papers in leading journals, attending conferences, supervising research students and obtaining funding to support their students and research activities.

Teaching and research are considered an integral part of the post. The post will involve the usual administrative duties associated with a busy academic and research-active environment and you will be expected to enhance the academic standing of the Department of Immunology and Inflammation.

You will contribute to the academic aims of the Department by:

• Planning and directing relevant basic and translational science research programmes
• Planning and leading innovative, interdisciplinary research
• Successfully attracting funds for research initiatives
• Extending and interlinking the research strengths already existing within Imperial College across the Faculties in your field of research
• Participating in the planning, design and execution of teaching including postgraduate teaching and research supervision and undergraduate teaching
• Participating in postgraduate training and courses for junior and senior doctors in training

Full information on duties, responsibilities and criteria for the post can be found in the attached Job Description.

Essential requirements

• Full GMC (General Medical Council) registration

• CCT (Certificate of Completion of Training) in the appropriate area

• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee

• Further Higher Degree – MD, PhD or equivalent in a relevant area

• A national and/or international reputation in the field of haemato-oncology or related field (commensurate with career stage)

• A track record in attracting research funding

Further information

Our preferred method of application is online, on our website at the following link: Imperial Career's site (select “Job Search”). Please apply online, uploading any relevant supporting documents such as a cover letter, full CV, which should include:

• degrees (including universities and dates);
• past and present posts, list of publications;
• brief (2 pages) description of current and future research plans;
• teaching statement and evidence of teaching scores;
• information on research grants and contracts which have been obtained, student supervision, etc;
• information regarding public engagement undertaken with research activities. Examples include:  participating in festivals, working with cultural venues; creating opportunities for the public to inform research; researchers and the public working together to inform policy; citizen researchers and web based experiments, public debates, etc.

Please see our Further Particulars for more information about the College and the benefits available to staff.

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required.

Clinical academic appointments are conditional on medical clearance by the College Occupational Health Service and by the relevant Trust’s Occupational Health Service that the candidate is fit for the employment.

For informal discussions about the post, please contact Professors Tassos Karadimitris (a.karadimitris@imperial.ac.uk) and Cristina Lo Celso (c.lo-celso@imperial.ac.uk), Co-Directors of the Centre for Haematology.

For further information on the recruitment process please contact: Maria Monteiro, Senior Appointments Manager, email: m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)207 594 5498.

All candidates will be contacted after the shortlisting is completed

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/ 

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research/