Senior Research Nurse/AHP

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Torquay; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A local NHS trust in Torquay is seeking a Senior Research Nurse or Allied Health Professional to lead clinical trials and enhance patient care through innovative research. The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and experience in managing clinical research objectives. In this role, you will recruit participants, ensure high quality data collection, and work closely with a multidisciplinary team. This is a unique opportunity to impact clinical research in a growing field.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical research is preferred.
• Ability to manage a clinical trial portfolio.
• Comprehensive understanding of health promotion and patient education.

Responsibilities

• Lead high quality research delivery across multiple clinical specialties.
• Recruit patients into clinical trials and collect clinical data.
• Liaise with the multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Understanding of clinical research objectives

Management of research performance

Job description

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Research Nurse or Allied Health Professional to join our research team. This maternity cover role offers a unique chance to work across a range of specialties, contributing to innovative clinical research and making a real impact on patient care.

As a senior member of staff, you will lead high quality research delivery across multiple clinical specialties. Be responsible for recruiting patients into clinical trials and collecting their clinical data for research purposes. A key part of the role will be to liaise with all members of the clinical multi‑disciplinary team, so the successful candidate will need to have excellent interpersonal skills.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a growing area of clinical research at a senior level.

Key Responsibilities

• Have an understanding of the clinical research team objectives and contribute to their achievement.
• Manage research performance and study timelines of relevant studies.
• Be responsible for the delivery of a clinical trial portfolio relevant to the specialty.
• Be responsible for the care of research participants within the relevant sphere of practice and use opportunities to provide health promotion and patient education.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team and contribute to the ongoing development of the department.
• Have an awareness of the income stream relevant to clinical trials and work within local and Trust‑wide financial and budgetary guidelines.

The clinical research delivery team recruits participants from across the organisation into commercial and non‑commercial clinical trials and research. We work across the organisation, supporting research in a variety of clinical specialties and departments.

We provide clinical research expertise from setting up studies with the clinical service through to informed consent, trial treatments and interventions and study follow‑up. We use a range of clinical database systems to ensure high quality clinical data collection.

The team supports the safe conduct of research in accordance with the Research Governance Framework and Good Clinical Practice guidelines and provides assurance that the rights, safety and well‑being of trial participants are protected.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Angela Willberry, Job title: Clinical Research Team Leader, Email address: [e-mail], Telephone number: 01803 655631