Main area Stroke Grade NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract Fixed term: 12 months
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref 213-CORP-6812923
Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site King's College Hospital
Town London
Salary £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inc HCA's
Salary period Yearly
Closing 05/12/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
Job overview
The post-holder will work as part of the RDU 1 Research Delivery team for Stroke Research Team. The post holder will cover the workload and responsibilities of his/her colleagues during their absence. The post-holder will report to the Research Manager who will be responsible for managing the requirements and demands for research delivery support across the research programmes and themes.
The post-holder will be based at the Stroke Research Office at King’s College Hospital and work in close liaison with the principal investigators at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH ) site in Orpington. The post-holder will be required, on occasions, to see study patients and to recruit new patients into studies, at the PRUH.
The post is fixed-term for 12 months.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be involved in ensuring that any research undertaken at this recruiting site safeguards the well-being of the patients and is conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004 and Amended Regulations 2006. The post holder will undertake all relevant responsibilities as study coordinator and will ensure high quality of the research by maintaining high standards throughout the study as well as good data integrity. This includes commercial and non-commercial NIHR portfolio studies as well as investigator-led studies. As study coordinator, the post holder will be expected to report serious adverse events in a timely manner.
The post-holder will be responsible for recruiting to target, carrying out routine research study procedures, keeping accurate administrative records, and managing data entries and data queries in a timely manner.
The post-holder will also be responsible for ensuring data integrity by carrying out regular quality assurance checks. Other aspects of the role will include clinical tasks such as phlebotomy, cannulation, processing of blood and urine specimens, drug administration and clinical observations.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to A level
* Degree level of Equivalent
Skills
* Good communication and interpersonal skills
* Computer literacy & competence in standard pc packages
* Venepuncture & cannulation
Knowledge and experience
* A good understanding of research governance and ethics
* Knowledge of NHS/clinical setting
* Awareness of the need for discretion and confidentiality
* Experience in the research setting as a Band 3
* Some experience of working with Stroke patients
* Experience in liaising with study monitors and sponsors
Abilities
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
* Ability to impart study information to patients, relatives and carers, with different levels of understanding
* Ability to enter data onto sponsors’ EDC systems accurately and in a timely manner
* Ability to interact sensitively and professionally with clinical staff and patients
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