Research Nurse

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust; Truro; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a Research Nurse to lead a portfolio in Ologies and Covid within the Kensey Research Team. You will deliver and clinically manage studies, support investigators, and develop your clinical knowledge across specialist conditions.

You will drive quality standards, maintain accurate records, and collaborate with consultants, specialist nurses and the MDT to ensure patient safety and regulatory compliance in academic and commercial research.

Qualifications

• Registered to Degree Level or with demonstrable experience.
• Knowledge of research regulatory requirements.
• Ability to manage own workload with guidance.
• Experience handling confidential patient information.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Relevant clinical skills and previous clinical research experience.
• Understanding of valid informed consent.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent research monitoring and care to patients in studies, ensuring teams are trained and developed.
• Develop processes to maximise recruitment of patients to studies and ensure proper monitoring and safety.
• Coordinate clinical aspects of trials under supervision, including recruitment and follow-up of patients.
• Maintain highly accurate and comprehensive records of data from research studies.
• Work across observational studies, novel drug therapy and clinical interventions with the Lead Consultants, Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses.
• Autonomously operate with supervision to support the research team.

Skills

Informed consent

Data collection

Confidential data

Under pressure

Clinical skills

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Research & Development Directorate to join us as a Research Nurse working on our Ologies and Covid portfolio within the Kensey Research Team. You will be responsible for delivering and clinically managing your own portfolio of academic and commercial research studies in these specialties and also providing research support to investigators. This post will enable you to gain clinical knowledge and skills around a variety of specialist conditions through working closely with the consultants and specialist nurses and multi-disciplinary teams.

Demonstrate accountability for driving and growing research portfolio

Demonstrate responsibility for maintaining quality standards and adherence to regulatory bodies such as MHRA

Demonstrate ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining professional standards and behaviours

Demonstrate building and maintaining professional relationships with the MDT and external stakeholders

Demonstrating supervisory roles and responsibilities and managing HR situations within scope of practice

Demonstrate ability to motivate staff in a positive direction

Main duties of the job

A central part of the role will be to ensure that you provide excellent research monitoring and care to patients who have consented to participate in research and that the research/clinical teams you work with are appropriately trained, supported and developed within their professional/research roles. An important aspect of the role will be the maintenance of highly accurate and comprehensive records of data derived from the research studies.

Within this post you will develop processes and systems for maximising the recruitment of patients to academic and commercial studies and will ensure that research patients/participants are monitored, supported and receive the highest level of research nursing care. You will work across a range of studies including observational research, novel drug therapy and clinical interventions. Under the direction of the Lead Consultants, Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses you will coordinate the clinical aspects of trials, participate in the recruitment and follow up of patients with responsibility for the assessment, planning and on-going care and safety of the research participants throughout their study journey. The post holder will be required to work autonomously with supervision and guidance of the Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses.

About us

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is at the heart of acute and specialist care for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We care for a population of around 470,000 people, a number that increases during visitor seasons. We employ around 6,700 staff, united by a shared commitment to deliver safe, high-quality care. We provide services across three main hospital sites, with around 780 inpatient beds:

Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro

St Michael's Hospital in Hayle

As a teaching hospital, we're proud to work in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, the University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School, supporting the next generation of health professionals. We're committed to staying at the forefront of medical advance; investing in our people, developing our facilities, and expanding the specialist care we can offer locally so more patients can receive the care they need closer to home. We have a growing reputation for research and innovation that helps shape better care for the future. The Knowledge Spa, located on our Truro site, is a vibrant hub for medical, nursing and professional education across clinical and non‑clinical roles. It plays a vital role in attracting, developing and retaining highly skilled teams.

We are driven by one clear ambition, Outstanding Care for One and All, care that's safe, kind and high-quality. We are RCHT.

Job responsibilities

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

Identity Checks

Professional registration and qualification checks

Employment history and reference checks

Occupational Health clearance

Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check

Right to work in the UK

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https://www.nhsemployers.org/topics-networks/employment-standards-and-regulation

We reserve the right to close this advert early.

We may be able to offer flexible working. Please discuss at interview.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Registered to Degree Level or with demonstrable experience
• Knowledge of research regulatory requirements

Experience

• Ability to manage own workload with guidance
• Experience of dealing with confidential patient information
• Ability to work under pressure
• Relevant Clinical skills
• Previous clinical research experience

Skills

• Understanding of valid informed consent
• Understand the significance of research and use of validated results to improve practice
• Understanding of complete and accurate data collection and data-entry
• Previous experience of receiving informed consent
• Previous use of databases

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.