CRDC UK Network Inclusion and Engagement Program Manager

University Hospitals of Leicester; Leicester; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Leicester is looking for an Inclusion-Engagement Program Manager to optimize research participant engagement and represent the CRDC UK Network. The candidate will lead coordination efforts, ensuring equitable access to clinical trials while collaborating with various team members. This role offers flexibility with predominantly remote work and requires some travel for network meetings. Application deadline is 11 Sep 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing research participation and engagement initiatives.
• Strong communication skills for external representation.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver research participation and engagement activities.
• Coordinate inclusion and engagement efforts across the network.
• Drive strategic initiatives for equitable access to research.

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to impact the international and national landscape of commercial clinical trials, transform and supercharge the way UK deliver commercial research.

CRDC UK Network and Hosting

A Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Network is being established to coordinate activities across a UK network of CRDCs, providing national leadership, alignment and strategic engagement, and enhancing the capacity and efficiency of commercial research delivery across the centres. This Network, engaging and coordinating all CRDCs across the UK, will be hosted and led by Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust.

You will join us at the beginning as we establish this UK-leading, person-centred Network, ensuring equitable access, diverse recruitment, and efficient, gold-standard, aligned trial delivery. We will prioritise improving NHS and patient access to trials and accelerating approval of innovations, working closely with the devolved nations and existing national NIHR and commercial clinical trials infrastructure.

Structure and Leadership

Network activities will be organised into nine Themes overseen by a matrix of CRDC Directors and specialists drawn from the Network. Activities will be led and coordinated by the Network Operational Management Team led by the Network Operational Director. The Inclusion-Engagement Program Manager will lead Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Participation (PPIEP), Research Inclusion, and Marketing, Events and Communications themes transforming Network targets into actionable plans and delivering support across CRDC UK Network (managing their own project workload).

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals:

• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the Organisation

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/

Role and Responsibilities

You will be pivotal to the optimisation of research participant engagement and recruitment, and serve as the external representative for the CRDC UK Network in all communications, inclusion and engagement-related activities, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring high-quality and equitable access and engagement across the Network.

You will lead, coordinate and deliver research participation, inclusion and engagement activities across the CRDC Network as part of the Network Operational Management Team, working closely with the Strategic and Operational Program Managers and oversee all participation, inclusion and engagement aspects to ensure CRDC UK Network objectives are met.

Travel and Working Arrangements

Although predominantly remote working, it is anticipated that the postholder will travel to the Network host and CRDC sites (or their partner institutions), and regular travel to Network in-person meetings will be expected and supported.

Application Details

This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025