Professor or Associate Professor/Honorary Consultant in Cardiology at University of Leicester

Vacancy terms: Full-time, permanent

Salary details: Clinical Consultant £88,364-£119,133 per annum

Hours per week: 40

Advert closes at midnight on: 19 Jun 2023

About the role

This post is to support the objectives of the recently awarded NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (£26M) Cardiovascular theme You will be a high calibre clinician/scientist (Cardiology), possessing full GMC registration and a licence to practice.   

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and clinicians in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences & NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, which has a national and international reputation in translational research.   

You will have a research profile of well-established national/international standing and be a significant research income generator able to enhance impact activity and develop a programme of high-quality research, directed at disease mechanisms and personalised medicine with increased focus on the impact of multiple long-term conditions, ethnicity and frailty. Applicants with complimentary interests in arrhythmia; genomics, heart failure, imaging, intervention or multimorbidity are encouraged to apply. 

In addition, you will supervise a team of clinical and nonclinical postgraduate and undergraduate researchers and contribute to teaching delivery within the College.  

In addition to five academic programmed activities, you will also deliver five programmed activities delivering consultant clinical service at Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. 

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to:

University – Professor Andre Ng at andre.ng@leicester.ac.uk and

Professor Gerry McCann at gpm12@leicester.ac.uk. 

UHL – Dr William Nicolson at wbn1@leicester.ac.uk.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community through our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive.

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.