Agile Research - Clinical Research Practitioner

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Leeds; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Research Practitioner to join the Agile Research Delivery Team, covering Humber and North Yorkshire. The role involves delivering both clinical and non-clinical research across multiple sites and settings.

The post requires travel across the region, supporting site initiation and delivery of funded NIHR portfolio studies within secondary care and wider health settings.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering both commercial and non-commercial research.
• Ability to work across hospital and community settings within a regional remit.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks governing clinical research delivery.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical and non-clinical NIHR portfolio studies across Humber and North Yorkshire.
• Provide support to research sites to initiate and deliver funded studies.
• Travel as required to cover multiple locations and settings.

Skills

Clinical research delivery

Travel across region

Community-based practice

Tools

Phlebotomy

ECG recording

Sample processing

Job description

Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you want to work in a variety of settings across different organisations? The Agile Research Delivery Team (ARDT) is looking for a Clinical Research Practitioner (CRP) to join a dynamic mobile team. This advert is for a post available in the Humber and North Yorkshire Region., These posts will be employed through Leeds Teaching Hospitals with the operational base being either Wizu Workspace York or Humber Teaching Hospital NHS Trust depending on the location of the successful candidate

The ARDT CRP will be required to travel throughout the Humber and North Yorkshire region delivering all aspects of clinical and non-clinical research.

The following areas of expertise are advantageous however not essential, Commercial Research Delivery, Mental Health, Community based practice, Supporting those living with Dementia and Prisons., First, to provide support to research sites to enable the effective and efficient initiation

and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England.

Second, to enable the strategic development of new and more effective research

delivery capability and capacity. This includes bringing research to under-served regions

and communities with major health and care needs.

Third, to work jointly with the Coordinating Centre in the strategic oversight of the NIHR

RDN. This ensures that the Portfolio is maintained as a cohort of high-quality, fully-funded, viable and deliverable studies. It also ensures that the NIHR RDN as a whole serves the needs of researchers and R&D teams and is responsive to the changing domestic and global environment for health and care, life sciences and health research.

The Agile Research Delivery Team form part of the Regional Research Delivery Network for Yorkshire and Humber. We support the delivery of research across multiple locations and settings, broadly speaking in Secondary Care and Wider Care Settings., The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

The ARDT works across Secondary Care, Primary Care and Wider Care settings, delivering a variety of Commercial and Non-Commercial research studies and trials. The Clinical Research Practitioner post would ideally suit someone who has experience of delivering research in a dynamic environment and/or experience of community based practice., This post is a community based role, covering the Humber and North Yorkshire area, therefore travel is a requirement of the role. The ARDT work both in and out of the hospital setting. Delivering NIHR Portfolio adopted research in Wider Care Settings and the community requires the post holder to have a flexible approach, excellent planning and time management skills.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate experience of delivering both commercial and non-commercial research and have knowledge of the legislative frameworks governing safe and effective research delivery.

Applicants should possess the necessary clinical skills required to deliver all aspects of clinical research such as phlebotomy, EGC recording and sample processing.

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.