Main area: Innovation Research and Development
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri 08:00am- 18:00pm)
Job ref: 319-6753290IO
Employer: Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: North Tyneside General Hospital
Town: North Shields
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/11/2024 23:59
Clinical Research Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients. You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t; this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues, and people’s homes.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong, we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare is a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Research Nurse to join our team. We are looking to appoint a dynamic, self-driven individual to join a well-established successful Innovation, Research and Development department.
Candidates will be registered nurses with substantial post-registration experience. A minimum of 18 months experience of either working within clinical research delivery or a clinical specialty is required for the smooth transition into this post.
The role includes but is not limited to:
* Delivering commercial and academic clinical trials across Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, working with a team of professionals with a wide range of responsibilities.
* Candidates will need to possess excellent communication skills with the ability to manage and prioritise allocated workload.
* Knowledge in research design methods, and understanding of analytical processes is desirable.
* You will be a team player with the competence to work independently across the trust, establishing networks of communication in multiple specialities and support services.
* This position is predominantly a clinical role conducting a variety of clinical trials necessitating a high level of organisational skills including detailed high-quality data in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Main Duties of the Job
* With supervision, the candidate will be able to support trial/study set up, ensuring the smooth planning and running of clinical trials in accordance with ICH GCP, standard operating procedures, clinical trials protocols, and Trust policies.
* Provide accurate data management and reporting of safety findings in accordance with GCP, Health Research Authority (HRA), Research Ethics Committee (REC) and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) standards.
* Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, manage accurate and comprehensive records of data derived from the research studies. Safeguards the well-being of the patients and all is conducted within ICH Good Clinical Practice Guidelines for Research.
* Recruit patients to both commercially and academically sponsored clinical trials within the trust. Monitor those patients during the period of trial.
* Establish good lines of communication with local specialty teams and support services & external research teams.
* Have a broad range of clinical skill and assessment techniques i.e., venepuncture, ECG acquisition, spirometry, etc.
* Excellent time management skill and possess the ability to manage and prioritise allocated workload across varying specialties.
* Keyboard and general IT experience is required to support data management.
* It is expected you will be working towards achieving all Band 6 research nurse competencies within 12-24 months.
Working for Our Organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
With support and supervision, the candidate will be able:
* To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the research team.
* Demonstrate proficiency in basic laboratory skills and effect management of laboratory samples; this will include processing complex blood samples, however, training will be provided.
* Have the ability to work alongside medical and non-medical staff, attending MDT, investigator meetings, and other research events on and off-site.
* Demonstrate exceptional organisational & multi-tasking skills with the ability to prioritise appropriately.
* Provide safe and accountable management of investigational medicinal products (IMP’s).
* Have skill and competence to appropriately delegate to junior staff.
* The ability to work effectively both autonomously and within a close-working team.
* Encourage a positive, motivating environment conducive to working, supporting colleagues and patients.
* Understanding the patient's research journey.
* Maintain consistent high standard of detailed documentation.
* Ability to read, interpret & understand research protocols.
* Willing to undertake GCP & other essential research training.
* Exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
* Act as a role model who demonstrates compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse (Clinical) significant post-graduation experience
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching, and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period)
* Good Clinical Practice (GCP certificate)
* Evidence of continuing professional development
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend the interview, please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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