Junior Clinical Fellow in HIV medicine

Full time – 10 Programmed Activities

Applications are invited for the post of Junior Clinical Fellow in HIV medicine. The post is based at the Denmark Hill site at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The principal duties include the day-to-day ward care of people living with HIV admitted under the care of the HIV team with HIV related conditions and opportunistic infections. The post is ideal for applicants planning a career in GU/HIV medicine or Infectious Diseases who would like to obtain specific experience in HIV medicine. Alongside inpatient care, the Junior Clinical Fellow will be expected to undertake, under supervision, a weekly discharge clinic for follow up of patients recently discharged from hospital. Opportunities for experience in Sexual health and Genito-urinary medicine are also available.

Our service is situated in an area of South London with high local prevalence of HIV. In addition to the busy clinical service, the department has an active teaching and training programme and a wide-ranging portfolio of research studies, in both Sexual Health and HIV, which the successful candidate will be encouraged to actively contribute to.

The principal duties include the day-to-day ward care of patients admitted with HIV related conditions and opportunistic infections. The post holder will be expected to supervise and work closely with the ward registrar and co-present patients at multidisciplinary meetings and consultant ward rounds. The number of inpatients directly admitted under the HIV team ranges from 4-10 at any one time. The JCF will be expected to carry out specialist review for additional HIV positive inpatients who are not directly admitted under the HIV team. There are three consultant ward round per week

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level.

HIV management includes clerking patients on admission, managing and investigating patients, conducting ward rounds, undertaking practical procedures such as lumbar puncture, preparing patient MDT lists and the weekly radiology meeting, outpatient follow up on discharge, attending other meetings, eg. case conferences and completing HARS coding (UKHSA reporting) where required.

The JCF may be expected to undertake a clinic for newly diagnosed HIV patients or an HIV emergency clinic for walk-in patients

The JCF will have the option of covering walk-in sexual and reproductive health clinics at the Camberwell Sexual Health Clinic (CSHC).