Research Fellow

Role Overview & Responsibilities

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced researcher to join the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine Research Department. The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team on a project aimed at evaluating the feasibility of delivering self-acupuncture to chemotherapy cancer patients undergoing treatment in a routine clinical care NHS setting.

The study will involve teaching chemotherapy cancer patients to insert a limited number of acupuncture needles into points on their own body to enable them to self-manage the symptoms of their cancer and the side effects of chemotherapy treatment. The study will employ a pragmatic mixed methods randomised parallel-group exploratory design, comparing self-acupuncture plus standard care versus standard care alone.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.

We provide academically-led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital Eastman Dental Hospital

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

For more information, please access the following link: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/

The role will involve recruiting patients to the study, assisting with the organisation and running of self-acupuncture teaching workshops, completing quantitative outcome measures with participants, conducting qualitative interviews with participants, and the analysis of qualitative data. The study is funded by UCLH Charity Fund.

For informal enquiries about the role please contact Dr John Hughes (email: john.hughes8@nhs.net).

Closing date:
We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.