Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Calderdale Royal Hospital
Town: Halifax
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 11/04/2025
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.
Job overview
This is a great opportunity for anyone who has research governance experience within a healthcare setting and who would like to progress their career! Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) R&D team has an excellent reputation for fast and efficient delivery of research, and the ideal candidate could be a real asset to the team!
The primary purpose of the role is to assist in the delivery of a safe, efficient, and timely Research Support & Management service for CHFT by promoting and facilitating the delivery of high-quality research activity within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
* Manage the Trust NIHR portfolio studies and its non-portfolio studies.
* Provide a full and comprehensive capacity and capability assessment of all research, including contracts and costings as part of R&D governance processes.
* Assist in recording and reporting the Trust’s performance in meeting local, regional, and national performance targets.
* Provide research expertise to new researchers.
* Interrogate data to provide feasibility reports for scoping potential research projects.
* Develop and provide IT System support for individual research projects.
* Develop databases for the overall management of the research portfolio in the Trust.
* Ensure accurate data collection and presentation for reporting to various forums.
* Provide leadership and management support to the Research Manager.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
* Educated to degree level or equivalent plus training and/or experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
* Ability to analyse and interpret research governance and management information.
* Competent with IT packages, particularly MS Office software (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) and web-based applications/software.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
* Experience of working in a research environment (NHS, University or Industry).
* Recent significant experience of working in a governance role in a complex or regulated organisation, preferably within the NHS.
* Demonstrable experience of managing multiple projects within a team.
* Experience of data manipulation, data analysis, and the presentation of results to researchers.
* Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
* Ability to assess complex sets of documents against research governance requirements.
* Ability to work under pressure balancing conflicting workloads and working to deadlines.
* Excellent proactive organisational and planning skills with confident analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Knowledge of indemnity issues in research.
* Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training certificate.
Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers.
If you have any questions, please contact ask.recruitment@cht.nhs.uk for assistance.
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