2025 ECAT SCREDS Clinical Lectureships at The University of Edinburgh

Full time: 40 hours per week

Fixed term: 6^th August 2025 until CCT date + 6 months, or 2 years post-PhD (as appropriate)

Up to 5 posts available

We are seeking to recruit suitably qualified candidates for up to five postdoctoral SCREDS Clinical Lecturer posts for a February or August 2025 start.

The opportunity:

Each post is designed to combine Specialist Training in the successful candidate’s chosen speciality with enhanced academic and research opportunities which will involve a balance of research, teaching and clinical duties. This will allow each successful applicant to establish a successful research foundation in their chosen area.

Vacancies are open to:

• Trainees in all GMC-recognised medical and surgical specialties
• Primary care practitioners
• Candidates from across the UK

Your skills and attributes for success:

• You must be able to demonstrate a commitment to a research career and should have a track record appropriate to your career stage in basic, translational or clinical research
• You must have a postgraduate degree (PhD or MD)
• You must have (or obtain by the start date of the post) a specialty training position with a National Training Number (NTN) in your chosen discipline in the UK (if you are a GP it is anticipated that you will join the programme post-CCT)
• You must be GMC registered and must be practicing clinically in the UK
• You must have relevant clinical experience in your chosen specialty
• You must be eligible for higher specialist clinical training

Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check required.