Please see the Job Description and Person Specification document for further details. The NIHR RRDNs will have three key roles which it will fulfil via new models of service delivery and functions, to: Provide support to research sites to enable the effective and efficient initiation and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England. Enable the strategic development of new and more effective research delivery capability and capacity. This will include bringing research to under-served regions and communities with major health and care needs. Work jointly with the Coordinating Centre in the strategic oversight of the NIHR RDN. This will ensure that the Portfolio is maintained as a cohort of high-quality, fully-funded, viable and deliverable studies. It will also ensure that the NIHR RDN as awhole serves the research delivery needs of investigators and R&D teams and isresponsive to the changing domestic and global environment for health and care, lifesciences and health research. The NIHR RRDNs will need to develop excellent relationships with the organisations commissioning and providing health and social care across their regions, which are mapped onto NHS regions and Integrated Care Systems. They will help support research undertaken by those providers and at sites across the region, and promote research meeting the needs of local populations. NIHR RRDNs will work together with an RDN Coordinating Centre to support health and care research delivery for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy as a whole. If you would like an informal conversation on the recruitment process, please contact jane.mccartney@uhs.nhs.uk in the UHS Senior Appointments Team. Alternatively, if youre ready to apply, please follow the link below. Please submit an Expression of Interest and a short CV setting out your skills and experience for the speciality area/s you wish to apply for. Closing date is 21st January 2025. Interviews are planned for either the 5th or 6th of February 2025.