Deputy Research Delivery Manager

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Deputy Research Delivery Manager to lead a dynamic team in mental health and dementia research. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your expertise in strategic planning and management while working in a diverse and supportive environment. You'll promote research initiatives, collaborate with various organizations, and ensure that service users have access to vital research opportunities. If you are passionate about making a difference in underserved communities and possess strong leadership qualities, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Post degree level education in a healthcare-related field is essential.
• Proven leadership and management skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the RDN funded research team to support NIHR studies.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure research targets are met.

Skills

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

Time Management

Leadership

Clinical Trial Methodology

Education

Post Degree in Healthcare

Management and Leadership Training

ICH GCP Certification

Job description

Job Overview

Are you passionate about mental health and dementia, and about delivering research to underserved communities?

Do you have experience in leading a dynamic team of research assistants, practitioners and data managers to deliver a varied portfolio of research across mental health and dementia services?

Do you have proven leadership qualities and can demonstrate that:

• You give more than you take?
• You give all or nothing?
• You do right?
• You work on the basis of 'We, not me'?

If you are all these, and full of innovative ideas on how to motivate the team to achieve excellence in research delivery, we would like you to apply for the post of Deputy Research Delivery Manager.

This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills and expertise in strategic planning and management. Furthermore, you will be supported with personal and professional development and ongoing education.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues, and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

The role will be based in the Research Delivery Service at Noclor NHS Research Office, hosted by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. This role also involves working across multiple organisations within Noclor Partner Organisations to oversee the work of the Research Delivery Teams, ensuring that our service users have access to research opportunities. At least 80% of the role will be spent across Delivery Team bases, with the remainder based remotely.

You should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of the challenges of research delivery in the NHS, particularly within mental health & dementia services. You should have an in-depth knowledge of the applicable regulatory frameworks, the role of the NIHR RDN, and the metrics that successful Research Delivery Teams are expected to meet. The ideal candidate should have effective communication skills, good organisational skills, flexibility, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work autonomously.

Working for our organisation

The Research Delivery Service is a diverse, social and outgoing team. As part of your role, you'll have the opportunity to try out new ideas in response to challenges that arise, with the support of your manager and wider team. We believe in succeeding together, not in spite of one another.

The role will also bring opportunities to develop your clinical and leadership skills. For example, previous research assistants have now gone onto senior roles within the NHS, completing PhDs and DClinPsy training. We also work with other Research Delivery Services in London under Noclor which provides opportunities for shared learning and creative thinking. In addition, we are an outgoing and social team who encourage, motivate and support one another.

The Research Delivery Service works with a diverse population in North West London, and it is important to us that we reflect this. Our diverse team and leadership team are examples of how we embrace, celebrate, and learn from each other's cultures, which helps to shape our clinical practices when interacting with our clients. Furthermore, it is key that team members uphold our values and work together for our clients with respect, dignity, and compassion.

Our staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The detailed job description is contained in the JD and includes:

• To promote and support research providing leadership to the RDN funded research team in CNWL and partner organisations to make the best use of individual skills and available resource to support NIHR portfolio studies achieve target recruitment rates. Work in close partnership with appropriate key stakeholders to ensure all local, corporate and national initiatives and targets are met.

To work with the Research Delivery Manager to increase opportunities for Partner Organisation employees and service users to participate in relevant research, and ensure the dissemination of results to relevant clinical teams and service user groups.

To support the Research Delivery Manager working in collaboration with relevant trust clinicians to assess the feasibility of studies running in Partner Organisations, and liaise with R & D offices and research teams to support their application for approval within agreed time frames.

The post holder will support governance and audit within the team/service, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team. The post holder will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement and professional development.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to post degree level or equivalent in a healthcare-related field
• ICH GCP
• Management and Leadership training

Skills And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High level organisational, problem solving, and time management skills
• Ability to manage complex situations and complaints
• Ability to establish systems to analyse performance activity and implement remedial actions in order to meet key targets
• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences and through a variety of mediums with confidence, empathy and enthusiasm.
• Demonstrate attention to detail
• Proven ability to educate and support staff in clinical trial methodology and delivery

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial experience in a senior capacity working with people with mental health, dementia, LD or substance misuse issues in an in-patient or community setting.
• Broad and substantial knowledge of mental health and dementia services.
• Experience of delivering research within NIHR-funded Research Delivery Teams or Joint NHS Research Office within Mental Health and Dementia
• Strong interest in managing and leading others in a clinical/team setting
• Demonstratable understanding and experience of developing, implementing and monitoring integrated governance processes, including risk and performance management
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of their own role and that of others within the multi-professional team
• To demonstrate experience of teaching and supervising staff.

Desirable criteria

• To demonstrate a clear professional understanding and practical experience of engaging and recruiting the under-served populations to research.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Mature, Confident and flexible approach to work
• Reliable, tactful, discreet and enthusiastic
• Empathetic and respectful
• Flexible in attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives