NEL CRDC Research Nurse

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in Greater London is seeking a Research Nurse to join its Commercial Research Delivery Centre. This role involves managing a portfolio of clinical trials, ensuring patient safety, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate should have significant clinical research experience and a commitment to upholding high standards of care. This is an exciting opportunity to enhance your clinical skills in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• A minimum of three years post registration nursing experience.
• Experience in clinical research with a proven ability to recruit to clinical trials.
• Clinically competent to work alone to ensure patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all aspects of research trials, including identification and enrollment.
• Develop specialized skills related to clinical trials.
• Provide advice and information to patients about clinical trials.

Skills

Clinical trial management

Patient safety

Organizational skills

Phlebotomy

Intravenous cannulation

Education

NMC Registered Nurse (Adult)

Educated to diploma/degree level

ICH GCP training

Tools

Trials Research Management Software (e.g., EDGE)

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Barts Health NHS Trust to join our team as a Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Research Nurse.

This role will focus on developing and expanding our commercial research portfolio across Barts Health, Homerton, Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals, as part of the Northeast London CRDC.

As a Research Nurse, you will be responsible for clinically managing and delivering your own portfolio of commercial research studies across a range of specialty areas, while also providing research support to investigators. The role offers the opportunity to broaden your clinical knowledge and skills across a variety of conditions, working closely with consultants, specialist nurses, and wider multidisciplinary teams. You will be expected to uphold the highest standards of care for patients and research participants, ensuring all activity complies with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ethical requirements, and regulatory frameworks, while contributing to the visibility and growth of research across the partner organisations.

Main duties of the job

As a research nurse the post holder will, in partnership with fellow members of the clinical research team across the hospitals, have responsibility for coordinating all aspects of research trials, including identification, enrolment, randomisation, screening, collection and preparation of biological samples, collection and input of trial data and follow up of patients. The post holder will be expected to develop specialised skills and knowledge relating to the conduct of clinical trials, in line with GCP requirements and local operating procedures. They are also be expected to have sufficient skills to enable patients to make informed choices concerning their involvement in clinical trials by providing advice and information and acting as the patient's advocate. The post will require some travel across different sites within the trust and to external meetings and will be expected to work flexibly as needed.

About us

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.

Person Specification

Experience

• A minimum of three years post registration nursing experience
• Experience of effective multidisciplinary team collaboration.
• Experience of utilising evidence-based practice.
• Experience in clinical research with a proven ability to recruit to clinical trials.
• Experience of clinical trial data entry.
• Previous use of Trials Research Management Software e.g. EDGE.
• Experience of formal/ informal teaching of patients and staff.

Skills

• Clinically competent to work alone to ensure patient safety and manage a portfolio of clinical trials.
• Proven organisational and time-management skills to manage and deliver a range of tasks and projects to tight deadlines.
• Attention to detail and meticulous documentation.
• Able to adapt to change and a flexible approach to their role.
• Competent to carry out phlebotomy and intravenous cannulation.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of data protection patient confidentiality requirements and Caldecott Guidelines.
• Awareness and understanding of the NHS' research strategy.
• Knowledge of current health and professional issues.
• Knowledge of ICH GCP and EU Clinical Trials Directive, Medicines for Human Use Regulations.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical trials and familiarity with the issues surrounding clinical data.
• Knowledge of Research Governance Framework.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse (Adult).
• Educated to diploma/degree level.
• ICH GCP training.

Communication

• Excellent communication skills and able to work as a team member.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience of explaining complex concepts to patients in a clear and simplified manner.
• Ability to write and disseminate information in a clear and precise manner.
• Ability to communicate to all staff groups and in different NHS organisations

Personal and professional

• Ability to achieve deadlines.
• Team player with the ability to work on own initiative.
• Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries.
• Enthusiastic and proactive approach to work.
• Ability to work under pressure, within a dynamic environment.
• Evidence of dynamic, continuous personal and professional development.

Other

• Willingness to work flexible hours on occasion.
• Willingness to work across research facilities within NEL CRDC partner Organisations as per service needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.