Job Description
Position Details
Department of Inflammation and Ageing, School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,943 to £77,196
Clinical
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to 4 years or CCT date, whichever is sooner
Closing date: 25th March 2026
Role Summary
An NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer (ACL) post offers doctors in specialty training a combination of 50% of their time in clinical specialty training and 50% of their time in academic training. It provides a maximum of 4 years’ funding or runs until the trainee achieves their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), whichever is soonest.
The ACL post provides opportunities for post-doctoral research and facilitates applications for further research funding for doctors working towards completion of their specialty training. It is intended for those who can demonstrate outstanding potential through success at doctoral research, and who show further potential for development as a clinical academic in research and/or educational research.
This post is in the NIHR priority theme of Clinical Therapeutics & Pharmacology & Industry
To apply for this NIHR 2025 ACL post, candidates should have submitted their final Doctoral thesis, and they must have been fully awarded their higher degree to be able to take up the post. The deadline to take up this post is September 1 st 2026.
To be eligible for a Clinical Lectureship you must:
- be in higher speciality training (medicine)