ART Senior Clinical Research Practitioner

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Clinical Research Practitioner to join the Agile Research Delivery Team, delivering NIHR portfolio studies across West Yorkshire. The role requires clinical research delivery across secondary care, primary care and wider care settings with travel between sites.

The post involves managing multiple concurrent studies, ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice and data protection, and contributing to leadership within a

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical and non-clinical NIHR portfolio research across West Yorkshire, including setup, conduct and close-out of studies.
• Perform essential duties such as screening, recruitment (including informed consent), delivering interventions, follow-ups, data handling and sample collection as required.
• Travel across multiple sites, in hospital and community settings, with flexibility to support Commercial and Non-Commercial studies while adhering to governance and legal requirements.

Job description

ART Senior Clinical Research Practitioner

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 an experienced Clinical Research Practitioner to join a dynamic mobile team. This advert is for a post in the West Yorkshire Region.

Main duties of the job

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 Senior 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

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Laura Sharp

Agile Research Delivery Team Clinical Manager

Job Summary

This post will be employed through Leeds Teaching Hospitals with the operational base being Wizu Workspace, 55 St Paul's St, Leeds LS1 2TE

The ARDT Senior Clinical Research Practitioner will be required to travel throughout the West Yorkshire region delivering all aspects of clinical and non-clinical research.

This will include managing multiple concurrent projects and research sites, requiring flexibility and adjustment according to demand.

Manages all aspects of study delivery including; screening, recruitment (including obtaining informed consent), delivering interventions, follow ups, data management, sample collection and processing as required, across all specialties and settings.

Act in accordance with current legislation, including Good Clinical Practice, research governance legislation, and the Data Protection Act.

Contribute to the leadership and management of a dedicated research delivery and support team, with adherence to Host policies and procedures. This may include undertaking supervision, mentorship and staff reviews to identify training and development needs, and establishing how those needs will be met, and managing performance against agreed objectives.

The following areas of expertise are advantageous however not essential, Commercial Research Delivery with IMP administration, Mental Health, Community or District Nursing, Supporting those living with Dementia and Prisons.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Laura Sharp

Agile Research Delivery Team Clinical Manager

[e-mail]

Job Summary

This post will be employed through Leeds Teaching Hospitals with the operational base being Wizu Workspace, 55 St Paul's St, Leeds LS1 2TE

The ARDT Senior Clinical Research Practitioner will be required to travel throughout the West Yorkshire region delivering all aspects of clinical and non-clinical research.

This will include managing multiple concurrent projects and research sites, requiring flexibility and adjustment according to demand.

Manages all aspects of study delivery including; screening, recruitment (including obtaining informed consent), delivering interventions, follow ups, data management, sample collection and processing as required, across all specialties and settings.

Act in accordance with current legislation, including Good Clinical Practice, research governance legislation, and the Data Protection Act.

Contribute to the leadership and management of a dedicated research delivery and support team, with adherence to Host policies and procedures. This may include undertaking supervision, mentorship and staff reviews to identify training and development needs, and establishing how those needs will be met, and managing performance against agreed objectives.

The following areas of expertise are advantageous however not essential, Commercial Research Delivery with IMP administration, Mental Health, Community or District Nursing, Supporting those living with Dementia and Prisons.

Why you should join our Team

The NIHR RRDNs have three key roles.

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.

This post is a community based role, covering the West 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.

This is a senior post withing the ARDT therefore 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.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose:

Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Agile Research Delivery Team Clinical Manager