This is an exciting post for 12 months aimed at a Gastroenterology trainee wishing to garner further specialist experience in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) delivery in a large teaching hospital Gastrointestinal (GI) unit. The post also comes with the opportunity to do some clinical research (hopefully leading to abstract and paper publication and experience in clinical trials), with time set aside within the job plan to enable this to occur.

The new Royal Liverpool Hospital is home to a IBD Team which historically is known as a centre of excellence for IBD both nationally and internationally.  Serving over 4000 patients with IBD from across Merseyside, Cheshire and the Wirral (as well as North Wales, Isle of Man and other parts of the UK) the IBD is extremely busy, and offers a wide range of specialist services for patients with IBD – from transitional care through to obstetric IBD clinics.

The successful applicant will spend 12 months within the IBD Team exclusively at the Royal Liverpool Hospital site. The work will focus on service development and delivery with IBD patients. There will be the opportunity for the candidate to register for a higher degree with the University of Liverpool (or another university) subject to progress and/or time built into the job for research, quality improvement and teaching.  It is expected that the successful candidate will be able to author or co-author a number of papers or abstract, learn basic research methods and skills and hopefully attend major IBD conferences such as ECCO, DDW and the BSG.  There may be an opportunity to be either principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on one or more research studies.