Predoctoral Clinical Academic Fellow in Hand Therapy

About the Role

The postholder will work between Bone and Joint Health, part of the Centre of Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma Centre (40%) and the Hand Therapy Department at Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust (60%).

The postholder will work alongside Dr Lisa Newington (Clinical Lecturer in Hand Therapy) and contribute to existing research programmes (upper limb rehabilitation, musculoskeletal health and work, routinely collected data in hand therapy). They will be supported to develop and lead their own projects and will have access to the Bone and Joint clinical academic training programme. A key objective for this role is to use these development opportunities to prepare an application for PhD funding.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

You will have a Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy degree, HCPC registration, and clinical expertise in Hand Therapy. You will have experience of leading clinical audit, service evaluation or quality improvement projects, and evidence of peer reviewed presentations (e.g. conference presentations) and/or publications. You will have good project management skills and the ambition and drive to undertake a PhD in an area relevant to hand therapy.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

This post is based at the Blizard Institute, Whitechapel Campus. It is fulltime (35 hours per week), fixed term for 2 years, with a 40:60 split academic: clinical. The starting salary will be £39,065 -  £45,622 (depending on candidate experience)

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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