Senior Clinical Research Fellow - Knee Surgery - Cardiff and Vale UHB

Applications are invited for the post commencing 5th August 2025 until 3rd February 2026

The post is attached to the Cardiff Lower Limb Arthroplasty Unit, at both the University Hospital of Wales and University Hospital Llandough and serves a local population of 500,000 and provides a tertiary referral service for a population of 1.5 million. The successful candidate will be exposed to all aspects of knee surgery. There is a fully established Research Unit. The successful candidate will be expected to take part in ongoing research projects together with specific research. 

Candidates should have ideally completed a basic Orthopaedic Registrar training programme and passed the appropriate exit examination. 

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder will be expected to work at specialist Registrar level and will participate in the specialist Registrar on call rota at Llandough Hospital.

Clinics, review/research clinics

 Lists, own and supervised.

Assigned 1 or 2 projects.

Access to university facilities

Original research encouraged.

Duties will include retrospective review, liaising with university departments and screening and scoring patients.