Do you want the opportunity to develop your existing academic experience in a supportive and inspirational environment where you can establish your clinical academic career?

Applications are invited for a NIHR Integrated Academic Training Clinical Lecturer post. The post is available for up to four years according to the clinical training needs of the successful candidate to obtain a CC(S)T. You will join the vibrant Integrated Academic Training programme at Leeds which provides a supportive research environment to develop independent, novel research alongside your clinical specialist training leading to full registration and CC(S)T. You will be awarded a training contract with the Regional Postgraduate Deanery at specialist registrar (or equivalent) grade and an honorary contract with the appropriate NHS Trust; you are expected to be at a minimum level of ST4 and hold or be awarded a National Training Number in higher specialty training by the time you start the post.  

The successful candidate will spend 50% of the appointed period continuing or establishing a new research programme with 50% of the appointed period allocated to appropriate clinical training. There are opportunities to align to current research interests within cardiology research in the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine Research (LICAMM) linked to the NIHR Research Theme Multiple Long-Term Conditions. You will undertake internationally regarded research and have the benefit of senior academic support in making grant applications, as well as independent mentoring on career progression. You will also share responsibility for delivering high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes.

You will have submitted your PhD/MD at the time you apply and will provide evidence that you have been fully awarded your degree by the time you take up the post. The post is located in LICAMM at the University of Leeds and NHS Trust premises including St James’s University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary.

The successful applicant must be in post by 1 September 2025 

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Academic Supervisor

Dr Richard Cubbon

Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds 

Email: [email protected]

Clinical Training Programme Director

Dr Jivendra Gosai

Clinical Training Programme Director 

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford

Email: [email protected]