Job overview

This 12 month data science fellow post is an exciting opportunity to join the clinical team at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, UCLH, and spend 50% of your time on a research project where you will create and curate a comprehensive structured digital repository of granular historical clinical data from patients who have attended the emergency tropical walk in service with acute illness following recent travel overseas or with specific risk exposures for zoonotic and communicable disease.
Your remaining clinical time will be spent working in the infectious diseases department at UCLH where you will provide inpatient care on the infectious diseases ward, and also outpatient clinic cover in the tropical walk in clinic.
In this post you will have the chance to develop your research and leadership skills, and to interact with the various data teams at UCLH/UCL. Our aim is to create a valuable resource from historic data that will seamlessly integrate with the comprehensive data capture potential of the fully integrated electronic health record system (Epic) that was introduced at UCLH in April 2019. You will have opportunities to conduct research projects that demonstrate the utility of this resource.

Main duties of the job

The clinical component of this post will consist of both inpatient and outpatient work. The inpatient work will include the day-to-day management of a broad range of inpatients with infection related problems, clinical consultations of patients under other medical and surgical teams, and opportunities to see emergency admissions referred for infection specialty care. UCLH has a wide range of medical and surgical specialties, and also provides highly specialised infection care for diseases including HIV, malaria and hydatid disease. The outpatient work will primarily consist of clinical cover of the emergency tropical walk-in clinic. This is a unique service in the UK that provides urgent clinical assessment to acutely symptomatic returning travellers. This service is well attended by a very diverse range of patients returning from countries all over the tropics. This is an invaluable learning experience for any junior doctor who has an interest in infectious diseases, travel health or tropical medicine.
The research component of the post is outlined in the job description.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. 

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: 

·         University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) 

·         National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

·         Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 

·         University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 

·         Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 

·         University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 

·         The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 

·         University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street 

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.