Senior Research Nurse and Memory Clinic Team Manager
To jointly manage the effective and efficient organisation of the services offered by ReMind UK (formerly RICE), coordinating the memory assessment services, and clinical trials. Working in partnership with our Research and Medical Director, the postholder will ensure excellent clinical and research standards are maintained within the team.
This is a proactive and varied role which would suit an experienced senior nurse who thrives on reviewing and improving systems and processes at the heart of an organisation for the benefit of patients and families. We are looking for someone with the ambition and ability to meet the increasing demands of the services we provide and who is able to communicate sensitively and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including clinical colleagues, wider team members and patients.
Main duties of the job
This is a newly created position within ReMind UK, working across our clinical and research activity to help optimise and coordinate activity. Within the memory clinic, the post holder will have a small case load, as well as undertaking triage work. Within research, they will act as trial coordinator on an agreed number of clinical trials.
Excellent IT literacy is needed to look at how ReMind UK can connect digitally as well as enhancing our internal systems.
The role combines management, research and leadership within our clinical team, as well as supporting and working closely with our Medical Director, CEO and wider senior team, being a conduit to support the smooth flow of communication and information to enable the effective running of our services.
About us
ReMind UK (formerly RICE) is an independent charity and an internationally renowned centre for research, diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Our research aims to improve life for people with dementia and their families and carers, and to find drug and non-drug treatments for people with conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and other diseases predominantly affecting older people. Our contracted NHS Memory Clinic service, paid for memory assessments, and allied activities also provide support to patients, families and carers. We are currently in an ambitious phase of development to increase significantly our clinical and academic research programme. We work closely with the Universities of Bath, Bristol and other research institutions, both nationally and internationally, and with the Royal United Hospital.
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Management and Leadership
1. To provide management support to our clinic team including research nurses, research psychologists and medical secretaries and to act as an important point of contact for the team.
2. To be an active member of the Senior Leadership Team, attending regular meetings and presenting the views and activities of the memory services and research within a strategic context.
3. Liaison with a wide variety of people across different levels of seniority and areas of expertise, for example clinical and academic staff, professional bodies, charities, pharmaceutical companies in a confident, professional and friendly manner.
Management of memory services
1. Joint responsibility for the operational running and management of memory clinics to deliver high quality and effective cognitive assessment services. Ensuring good links to other ReMind UK activities.
2. The postholder will oversee the day-to-day management of our memory services including waiting lists, stats reporting, linking into other external services such as AWP and Alzheimer's society.
3. To be responsible for coordinating care for a small number of service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers' caseloads, where appropriate.
4. To lead, in partnership with the Research and Medical Director, to ensure the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision processes. Jointly responsible for Memory Clinic CQC compliance, ensuring relevant paperwork is in place and up to date.
5. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment and activity.
6. Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.
7. To support the Research and Medical Director in developing systems and processes for the effective management and monitoring of the caseload, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, and service users and carers receive the appropriate level of service.
8. To work with the Research and Medical Director to ensure focus on continual improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.
9. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.
10. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.
11. To work with the clinical team to deliver high quality and effective research activities.
12. To engage and support Research Nurses with clinical trial studies as and when appropriate.
Clinical Research
As a Senior Research Nurse, you will act as line manager for the Research Nurses and play a key role in the provision of effective nursing services for optimal study delivery. You will be responsible for acting as Study Coordinator on an agreed number of trials and will be closely involved from clinical start-up at the Site Initiation Visit right through to close-out. You will be trained to follow ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines. You will work closely with the principal investigator and collegiately with the wider study team. Study responsibilities include:
* Supporting and coordinating study visits
* Monitoring patients and volunteers during a study
* Developing a good relationship with the Sponsor Company's clinical research staff regarding the day to day running of the studies and assisting them at their monitoring visits
* Maintaining accurate data collection, records and medication accountability
* Working with the team to carry out all study assessments according to the research protocol
* Centrifuging blood specimens and organising their transport and storage
* Liaising with laboratories and radiology departments
* Ensuring that study related equipment and supplies are ordered in a timely fashion, well maintained and calibrated when appropriate
* Administering medication under the directions of a doctor
* Attending site initiation and investigator meeting. This may require foreign travel.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Adult or Mental Health Nurse with at least 8 years post registration experience
* Qualified to carry out venepuncture
* Qualified to cannulate and administer intravenous fluids
Knowledge and skills
* Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice and its application to own practice and behaviour
* Demonstrated effective nursing practice in all registered nurse procedures
* Proven empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives, and assured patient confidentiality, dignity and respect at all times
* Ability to prioritise busy workload and to work to support your team.
* Demonstrated awareness and importance of flexibility and working as part of a team
* Commitment to professional development
* Ability to help educate and train others
* Strong verbal and written communication across different audiences, eg staff, patients and relatives
* Excellent ability to accurately and clearly document results, observations, decisions and actions with attention to detail
* Good IT and digital skills, with use of patient CRM.
* Up-to-date Good Clinical Practice training
* A current driving licence and the availability of a car insured for business use
Experience
* Significant post-qualifying clinical experience obtained in a variety of settings, at AfC band six or equivalent
* Experience of managing within a clinical setting.
* Experience of working with people with dementia and with patients in the older age group
* Experience in carrying out cognitive testing and related assessments
* Experience of working in a memory clinic
* Experience in clinical trials and academic research
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.
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