Clinical Operations Manager

NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Cambridge seeks a leader for their clinical trials portfolio, focusing on the PANDA programme. You will oversee the management of clinical trials, collaborate with stakeholders, and contribute to the strategic direction of innovative research. The ideal candidate will have expertise in project management and clinical trial regulations while mentoring a team dedicated to saving lives.

Qualifications

• Experience overseeing clinical trials, particularly in a leadership role.
• Strong understanding of clinical trial regulations and governance.
• Ability to develop effective systems for operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the delivery of the PANDA programme and other clinical trials.
• Contributing to the strategy and direction of the CTU.
• Supporting the development and implementation of operational systems.

Skills

Project management expertise

Knowledge of clinical trial regulations

Mentoring and line management

Job description

Overview

NHSBT Clinical Trials Unit is a specialist, fully UKCRC-registered CTU delivering a growing, innovative, high quality, multi-centre clinical trials programme, nationally and internationally. NHSBT CTU has expertise in the design, conduct, analysis and publication of clinical trials and other prospective research studies. We collaborate with researchers in NHSBTs therapeutic areas: transfusion medicine, organ donation and transplantation, tissue, and stem cell transplantation. The team is passionate in their work to save and improve lives through research. The evidence generated directly benefits patients through influencing clinical guidelines and practice in the NHS and beyond. You will oversee a diverse and exciting portfolio of clinical trials and a committed group of staff, who you will support to develop and learn.

A particular focus of this post is PANDA, a programme of work for the prevention of anaemia in pregnancy. Around a third of UK pregnant women develop anaemia caused by a lack of iron, which may lead to general health problems such as excessive tiredness. Anaemia may also increase the risk of a baby being born stillborn, born early, or born small, or increase the risk of blood loss and developmental delay, although there is uncertainty. The PANDA programme aims to find out if giving iron tablets before anaemia develops, reduces these risks.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the delivery of the PANDA programme and other clinical trials, providing project management expertise to meet requirements and deadlines.
• Contributing to CTU strategy and direction as part of the CTU Management Team, including decisions about new proposals and collaborations and the subsequent writing of associated grant applications.
• Supporting the Head of Operations of the NHSBT CTU in developing and implementing effective systems for financial, managerial, trial administration, data management, and quality control and assurance.
• Guiding the CTU and wider clinical research community on the implications for clinical research of clinical trial regulations, including the Data Protection Act, the Human Tissue Act, the NHS research governance framework, and the regulatory and logistical aspects of international trials.
• Line managing, mentoring, and developing CTU trial managers or trial co-ordinators and administrators, ensuring they are supported and guided as required.
• Assisting in developing and implementing new trial methodologies and technologies to support our novel programme of trials.
• Working with stakeholders to develop and implement standard clinical operation processes to meet the needs of the CTU.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary—donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we’ll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the