Regional Research Governance Lead

UHNM; Stoke-on-Trent; Remoto; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) invites an experienced Research Governance Manager to lead regional governance across the North Midlands within the R&I Directorate. You will co-ordinate standardised processes, address bottlenecks in study set-up, and push for MHRA readiness to support both commercial and non-commercial studies.

Working across multiple sites, you will shape governance strategies, monitor compliance, and provide targeted guidance to ensure high-quality,

Competenze

• Master’s level or equivalent in clinical research, healthcare management, governance, or related field.
• Evidence of CPD in research governance and regulatory compliance.
• Formal management/leadership training or senior-level experience in complex healthcare systems.
• Coaching or mentoring qualification or demonstrated leadership development.

Mansioni

• Provide regional leadership and standardisation of research governance across the North Midlands.
• Strengthen governance, monitoring, auditing and oversight frameworks.
• Support centres at different stages of sponsorship development to MHRA readiness.
• Reduce unwarranted variation and address bottlenecks in study set-up.

Conoscenze

Master’s level experience

CPD in governance

Leadership/management training

Coaching qualification

Formazione

Master’s degree in a relevant field

Descrizione del lavoro

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Research Governance Manager, with experience of working at a regional level, to join the Research and Innovation Directorate (R&I) at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM). This senior role will provide regional leadership, co-ordination, and standardisation of research governance processes across the North Midlands, directly addressing critical bottlenecks in commercial and non-commercial study set-up. This role will play a key part in supporting centres at different stages of research sponsorship development by strengthening their research governance, monitoring, auditing, and oversight frameworks. Through targeted guidance, the role will ensure consistent standards across all areas and provide the necessary support to achieve and maintain MHRA readiness. You will reduce unwarranted variation, and support delivery of the 150-day research study set-up target.

Main duties of the job

The role will be instrumental in transforming future healthcare and improving outcomes through research evidence - both for our Trust and across the region. With NIHR infrastructure funding and the opening of our Commercial Research Delivery Centre in April 2025, this is an exciting time to join the UHNM R&I Directorate as we push the boundaries of clinical research to benefit patients.

We are looking for a dynamic and passionate Research Governance Manager with extensive experience, particularly with experience of working across multiple sites/regionally.

This is your opportunity to take on a strategic leadership role within the UHNM Research and Innovation Directorate, playing a pivotal part in the delivery of a governance service, regionally, that leads to tangible improvements in patient-centred research.

If you are passionate about leading research governance, and supporting all regional organisations this is your opportunity to make a significant difference.

This is a 3 year fixed term position

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to master’s level or equivalent experience in a relevant subject area (e.g. clinical research, healthcare management and governance, public health, biomedical science, or equivalent professional field)
• Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD) in research governance, regulatory compliance
• Formal management or leadership training (or equivalent demonstrable experience operating at senior strategic level within complex healthcare systems).
• Coaching or mentoring qualification (or evidence of structured coaching/leadership development training).

Experience

• Active or previous role in a university or NHS research management team
• Active or previous governance role in regional and/or national organisation research or innovation
• Improves communication amongst colleagues using a range of skills including influencing, advocacy, championing, and facilitation
• Promotes and models good practice consistent with legislation relating to: Governance Research Data protection
• Challenges inferior performance of colleagues in a supportive, constructive, and effective manner

• We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
• New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) has been awarded the Gold Award for proudly supporting those who serve. We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community

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If you are currently in the UK on a visa, you must have at least six months remaining on your visa at the time of your start date to ensure sufficient time for the operational and training process associated with the role. The requirement of at least six months remaining on your visa does not apply to a Skilled Worker Visa, as a new Skilled Worker Visa would be required for a new role.

In line with the change of Immigration rules on 8th January 2026 if you require Sponsorship through the Skilled Worker Visa you must be able to provide B2 English evidence before a Certificate of Sponsorship can be issued.

Visa eligibility notice:
Skilled Worker visas cannot currently be issued to Afghan nationals.
Study visas cannot currently be issued to nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar or Sudan.
As a result, we are unable to progress applications requiring sponsorship under these routes.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.