Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus ST1/ST3/ST4 (HYMS)

 

Hull York Medical School, in partnership with NHS England North East and Yorkshire  and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has developed an exciting opportunity for clinical academic training in Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Applications are now invited for an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Diabetes and Endocrinology at ST1/ST3/ST4 from August 2024. This post is funded and approved by the National Institute for Health Research and offers candidates a comprehensive experience of clinical academic medicine working alongside internationally renowned clinicians and researchers.

The following post is available:

One post in Diabetes and Endocrinology

Please note: This is a multi-specialty vacancy; an appointment may not be made in this specialty. There will be one ACF post in either Renal Medicine or Diabetes and Endocrinology.

Please read through all the relevant information available on the NHS England North East and Yorkshire ACF Webpage and associated links before beginning your application (link available through Oriel).

Application opening date/time is yet to be confirmed.

Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs) are 3 year fixed-term national training posts.  Trainees undertake 75% clinical and 25% academic training over the term of the post. They are employed by the NHS Trust and have an honorary contract with the University at whose Medical School their academic research is supported. ACF trainees also undertake a research training programme provided by the University.  They are eligible for a training bursary of up to £1,000 per year to support research training activity (e.g. to attend academic conferences and other training).

ACF trainees would be expected to complete and submit an external funding application for a research fellowship to enable them to complete a higher degree (PhD or research MD) during/following the completion of their ACF fixed-term post, which higher degree would then be completed as Out-of-Programme-Research (OOPR).

All Academic Clinical Fellowships are run-through posts.  A trainee entering ACF at ST1 in a specialty with a Core Training period would therefore be guaranteed continued training to CCT in the eventual specialty, as long as they progress satisfactorily through both their academic and clinical training. Run-through status is withdrawn if ACFs do not complete the academic component.

We advise all applicants to read through all the relevant information available on the NHS England North East and Yorkshire Diabetes and Endocrinology ACF Webpage and associated links before beginning your application through Oriel.

Including

• The Job Description
• The Person Specification
• The Timeline
• Interview Structure and location

The qualifications and professional registration requirements plus other eligibility criteria can be found in the person specification. The person specification for this specialty is available from the Specialty Training website.

Please upload all required evidence of competences to your online application form when completing the application form online. For those experiencing difficulties when uploading evidence, please ensure you email the evidence to the following email address by the application deadline: england.academicrec.yh@nhs.net with “your name” and “competencies” in the title of the email.

Please note:  ST1 & ST4 - Applicants who hold a National Training Number (NTN) in the specialty to which they are applying, or have been recently successfully clinically benchmarked in the 2024 specialty interviews are eligible to apply for this post. All other applicants are required to be benchmarked. Specialty interviews may not be held for all specialties, therefore the ability to be benchmarked in this round is not guaranteed.

Please note:  ST3 - level applicants - Only trainees who hold a Deanery Reference Number in the penultimate year of Internal Medical Training (CT2) or ACCS acute medicine (CT3) are eligible to apply. Trainees who have either: completed Core Medical Training, IMT training or ACCS-AM, are in the final year of IMT or ACCS-AM, or have alternative experience outside of UK training, are not eligible to apply. Trainees currently in the penultimate year of their core programme who are successful in gaining an ST3-level ACF programme will start their first year by completing IMY3.  Assuming internal medicine stage 1 is completed successfully, they will then run-through into their higher specialty at ST4-level.  There is no requirement for the trainees in this category to clinically benchmark as they will be carrying on with completing their IMT programme.

Trainees currently in the penultimate year of their core programme who are successful in gaining an ST3-level ACF programme will start their first year by completing IMY3.  Assuming internal medicine stage 1 is completed successfully, they will then run-through into their higher specialty at ST4-level.  There is no requirement for the trainees in this category to clinically benchmark as they will be carrying on with completing their IMT programme.

Applications are equally open to those who may, either from the outset or subsequently, wish to train less than full time or job share.

Please note that there is a strict application policy that applications cannot be accepted after the deadline.

Pay scales          

All trainees should be paid monthly at the rates set out in the national terms and conditions of service for hospital medical and dental staff and doctors in public health medicine and the community health service (England and Wales), “the TCS”, as amended from time to time. The pay scales are reviewed annually. Part-time posts will be paid pro-rata.

Current rates of pay for junior doctors may be viewed on the NHS Employers website

 

Further sources of information

• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
• Yorkshire and the Humber Academic Training webpages
• Hull York Medical School

 

Details of the recruitment process are provided below.