Clinical Research Fellow Head and Neck | Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization is seeking a Clinical Research Fellow to join the Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. This role involves delivering patient care in clinical trials, coordinating research activities, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should have relevant clinical qualifications and a passion for cancer research. Offering a supportive and flexible environment, this position promotes career development and maintains high standards of care.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Career development opportunities

Wellbeing programmes

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic attitude towards clinical research.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Familiar with ICH GCP guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care to patients enrolled in clinical trials.
• Participate in trial set-up and patient recruitment.
• Maintain accurate clinical and research documentation.

Skills

Patient care

Trial coordination

Data collection

Research governance

Critical evaluation skills

Communication

Education

Relevant clinical qualifications

Job description

Clinical Research Fellow Head and Neck

We are seeking an enthusiastic Clinical Research Fellow to join the Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine (CECM) at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. This exciting role offers the opportunity to contribute to pioneering cancer research, working alongside clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, and operational staff in delivering innovative clinical trials to improve patient outcomes.

The successful candidate will be involved in patient care, trial coordination, data collection, and research governance, with a focus on safe, compassionate, and accurate delivery of cancer clinical trial activities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver care to patients enrolled in clinical trials, ensuring adherence to study protocols and Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP) standards.
• Participate in trial set-up, patient recruitment, consent taking, treatment planning, follow-up, and data management.
• Apply critical evaluation skills to research protocols and develop knowledge of pre‑clinical and clinical trial rationales.
• Educate patients and their families about trial objectives, procedures, potential side effects, and follow‑up schedules.
• Maintain accurate clinical and research documentation, reporting to ethics and scientific committees as required.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, liaising with clinical leads, research nurses, pharmacists, and external research partners.
• Support recruitment strategies to meet local and national research targets.
• Support management in the development and implementation of strategies for each trial within the portfolio to ensure compliance with the protocol and ensuring the smooth running and successful outcome of the clinical research trial.
• Assists in the conduct of in‑house, commercial and non‑commercial national and international phase I, II and III clinical trials.
• Be aware of and comply with ICH GCP as well as the legal requirements and other relevant guidelines for the conduct of clinical research.
• Helps maintain files of current protocols and patient information sheets/consent forms in the appropriate clinics and departments.
• Be accountable for the documentation of trial data according to ICH GCP guidelines.
• Applies critical appraisal skills in evaluating research protocols.
• Functions in a collaborative practice role within the multidisciplinary health care team to provide expertise in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of clinical research protocols.
• Consults with primary investigators, research organisations and industry in the development and delivery of research protocols.
• Develops knowledge of the preclinical data and the specific rationale for testing an investigational agent/modality in humans.
• Ensures trial case report forms are completed in conformance with ICH GCP guidelines and within appropriate time guidelines.
• Development of database and case report forms for specific trials. Trial co‑ordination with pharmacy, pathology, radiology and radiotherapy where appropriate.
• Liaise with research teams at other institutions.
• Organise and participate in trial management group and trial steering group meetings.
• Analyse, present and publish completed clinical trials.
• Report progress and incidents in on‑going trials to local scientific and ethics committees.
• Acts as a clinical resource in research activities to clinical areas including the inpatient wards, outpatient oncology and surgical clinics, day units and radiotherapy Department.

About the Trust

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high‑performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Benefits

Barts Health offers a flexible and inclusive working environment with opportunities for career development and a range of benefits including competitive pay, protection against climate change, and wellbeing programmes.

This advert closes on Sunday 26 Oct 2025.