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MON 28 OCT 2024
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Clinical Trials Associate to join their dynamic team, focused on Reproductive Health and Neonatal Clinical Research. This operational, patient-facing role involves supporting the planning, delivery, and monitoring of clinical trials, particularly in fertility, gynecology, and neonatal care. Key responsibilities include recruiting participants for studies, maintaining trial documentation, coordinating research clinics, and ensuring compliance with Good Clinical Practice.
Ideal candidates should demonstrate effective communication skills, the ability to maintain positive relationships with clinical teams, and a commitment to learning and adapting to challenges. While prior experience is advantageous, comprehensive training will be provided.
The position offers 37 hours and 30 minutes per week, with flexible working arrangements considered. The application process will direct you to the Trac portal, with interviews scheduled for November 20, 2024.
It's an exciting time to be part of Clinical Research at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS foundation Trust. We are a large, busy and positive team that is looking for a motivated Band 4 Clinical Trials Associate to support the planning, delivery and monitoring of clinical trials in the area of Reproductive Health and Neonatal Clinical Research. We work in close collaboration with local, regional, and national colleagues, partnership organisations and networks to increase research opportunities and impact in line with our Trust 'Our Clinical Research Strategy 2021 - 2026'.
We work across fertility, gynecology and neonatal care clinical areas as well as maternity services and perform a vital role in the delivery of research that underpins future practice in the specialty.
In the role of a Clinical Trials Associate, you will be a crucial contributor as part of the team and sometimes leading others in observational studies. Please note, this CTA position is an operational, patient facing role with a focus on face to face recruitment of participants into research. Although previous experience is helpful, full training and a preceptorship period will be given. If you feel this post is for you then I look forward to reading your application!
- Interview Date Wednesday 20 November 2024
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
- Work flexibly across all reproductive health clinical areas.
- Communicate and collaborate with the research team to facilitate effective study delivery.
- Communicate and collaborate with the clinical teams, maintaining positive relationship and integrated research delivery.
- Work confidently and sensitively to recruit study participants face to face, maintaining confidence and privacy at all times.
- Maintain and organize essential trial documentation.
- Comply with Good Clinical Practice at all times.
- Assist with data entry and responding to data queries.
- Work with other CTA team members to cover workload for annual leave etc. and ensure continuity of study delivery.
- Keep mandatory training up to date.
- Show willingness to engage with the challenge of learning and change.
About us
- Coordinate and improve trial communication throughout Multi Disciplinary Teams throughout the Trust
- Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professional to ensure service delivery
- Communicates effectively with research team and study participants and their family members. Is able to provide patients with information, which may be complex or sensitive, regarding their participation in the clinical trial and the care that they will receive as a consequence of that
- Co-ordinate research clinics and co-ordinate a portfolio of studies this involves planning and organising clinical trial related care.
- Coordinate and supervise housekeeping duties and ordering of all clinical trial supplies
- Co-ordinate the sage collection transfer and storage of blood / tissue samples in accordance with the Human Tissue Act 2004 as required by trial protocol
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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