Clinical Research Coordinator - Rheumatology

St George's University Hospitals; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent teaching hospital in the United Kingdom seeks a Clinical Research Coordinator to join their research team. The successful candidate will coordinate clinical trials, support research nurses, and perform participant assessments. Responsibilities include collecting blood samples and managing participant recruitment across multiple sites. Strong communication, organizational skills, and clinical research experience are essential for this dynamic role. The hospital boasts advanced medical research facilities and serves a large population in south-west London.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical research delivery is essential.
• Ability to perform participant assessments is required.
• Willingness to travel across different hospital sites.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate a number of trials.
• Support research nurses and investigators.
• Collect and process blood samples, urine, and joint surgery tissues.

Skills

Clinical research experience

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

IT skills

Ability to work under pressure

Job description

An exciting opportunity has risen for a dynamic individual with experience in clinical research delivery to join our enthusiastic research team within the Rheumatology Team and support various studies.

The post holders will play a key role in developing and creating robust systems and processes to enable clinical research to run smoothly and efficiently.

Specifically this person will be required to collect and process blood samples, urine and joint surgery tissues, with willingness to travel across different hospital sites in GESH (Sr George's, Epsom, St Helier) for participant recruitment and sample collection. The person will also perform participant assessments, including questionnaires and pain measurements.

The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) will be responsible for coordinating a number of trials whilst supporting the research nurses and investigators in the delivery of clinical research studies.

The role will involve working closely with the Principal Investigators, sponsors, the Joint Research and Enterprise Service.

The post holder will foster excellent communication and working relationships with all clinical research delivery professionals internally and externally.

The post holder will need to be dynamic, able to work well under pressure and cope with conflicting demands whilst maintaining excellent organisational, communication and IT skills. Confidentiality, accuracy and attention to detail are fundamental for this position.

We are very keen to speak to potential applicants for the post and would be very supportive of applicants contacting us either by email or telephone.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's principal teaching hospitals and our main site is shared with City St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. We have over 9,000 dedicated staff serving a population of 1.3 million across south-west London.