HQIP collaborates with RCGP to create Clinical Fellow roles

HQIP has joined forces with the RCGP's Clinical Innovation and Research Centre to appoint two Clinical Fellows to assist with the development of practice amongst clinicians in clinical registries, confidential enquiries and clinical audits.

HQIP's roles include the commissioning of national and regional clinical audits and registers and the promotion of best practice to anyone who practises clinical audit, including clinicians in all settings and disciplines.

This extensive clinician support includes comprehensive guidance, events, mentoring, training, online networking, organisational funding for groups and networks and funding for small-scale project development.

We are now recruiting two clinical fellows to help support HQIP staff on key projects. These are likely to be young clinicians, having completed their initial training and prior to progression to senior roles - for example, general practitioners within five years of completing speciality training. 

Placements of this type can take various forms and can be attuned to the capacity, period of availability, and skill mix of the person involved with a minimum period of two sessions per month for one year.

There will be a small grant available to cover expenses.  Work undertaken will be supervised closely by a senior member of HQIP's staff and the Medical Director of the RCGP Clinical Innovation and Research Centre and form part of a wider programme.

Full specification: click here

Find out more: email Robin.Burgess@hqip.org.uk with additional questions

Deadline: Noon, Tuesday 31 January 2012

Applications: please send CV, covering letter and a completed Equal Opportunities Form to Sharon.Lukom@hqip.org.uk

Indicative projects:

• Working to offer general advice to specialist bodies on promoting audit within primary care, including advising on a range of activity they could carry out.
• Giving specific advice to teams working up ideas for new registers
• Working on the consultation on audits for inclusion in Quality Accounts
• Working on the development of a set of principles for national audits
• Reviewing technical guidelines for audit and registry projects
• Reviewing and updating the national digest of clinical registers
• Compiling the quarterly digest of published studies of audit in peer reviewed journals
• Scoping methods of feedback from local clinicians to national audit teams and helping national audit teams to achieve these
• Reviewing feedback from such processes and feeding this into contract management
• Taking part in commissioning of multi-site and register projects including reviewing proposals