Clinical CMS Fellow

NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow

Main area Neurology. Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow. Contract – fixed term 3 years (possibility of extension). Hours – full time 40 hours per week. Job ‑NOTS‑MS‑7659888.

Site:
John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way. Salary: £73,992 per annum. Closing date: 24/02/2026 23:59.

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and serving as a base for medical education, training and research.

Act as a clinical fellow within the Nationally Commissioned Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS) Team. The post is consultant‑supervised and covers both adult and paediatric patients. Work is mainly out‑patient based and covers the whole of the UK with occasional outreach clinics.

Responsibilities include:

• Differential diagnosis, emergency and routine advice on diagnosis and treatment.
• Provide phone and email advice to doctors, patients and families.
• Participate in audit and research activities, contributing to a rapidly developing clinical database.
• Prepare and attend clinics (out‑patient and in‑patient) and support nurses and other team members.
• Carry out research projects; encouraged to obtain a higher degree and to present work at national and international meetings.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts. Our values, standards and behaviours focus on compassionate excellence, rooted in compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. We provide a safe, respectful hiring environment and pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour.

The CMS clinical service covers Oxford outpatient clinics attended by Professor Jacqueline Palace (consultant neurologist) and Dr Smith Ramdas (consultant paediatric neurologist). A part‑time specialist nurse, a part‑time specialist physiotherapist and Dr Yin Dong lead the neuroscience group at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. Neurophysiology is led by Dr Ravi Knight and NHS genetic screening is led by Anjali Loyd‑Jali. Outreach clinics are held at Great Ormond Street, Newcastle, Liverpool, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Kings College Hospital, St Thomas Hospital and Bristol Children’s Hospital.

The service offers a diagnostic service, emergency and routine advice. In addition, phone and email advice is provided to doctors, patients, families and their carers. There are audits and service improvement activities that are undertaken by the team members and a rapidly developing database is kept up to date by the nurses, clinical fellow and other members of the team which help with clinical management, audit, commissioning activity and research.

Research and audit:
The CMS team has an active research portfolio and is expected to carry out research projects. The post will provide an opportunity to develop a broad publication portfolio and to gain experience presenting work at national and international meetings. Previous post holders have been involved in natural history, pregnancy and epidemiology studies, reporting new genetic CMS subtypes, muscle imaging treatment studies, and laboratory research to identify new CMS variants.

• GMC registration.
• Evidence of interest in Neurology specialty.

Applicants must have appropriate UK professional registration. The post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment), and Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required.

COVID‑19 vaccination is encouraged. The Trust will check vaccination status of all new starters to manage individual and environmental risks. Vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time.