Research Nurse inTruro inTruro PUBLISHED 8 OCT 2024

Band 5: £29,970 to £36,483 a year pa pro rata  PERMANENT  GOOD SALARY 

A central part of the role will be to ensure that you provide excellent research monitoring and care to patients who have consented to participate in research and that the research/clinical teams you work with are appropriately trained, supported and developed within their professional/research roles.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Research & Development Directorate to join us as a Research Nurse in the Kensey Research Team primarily working on the Rheumatology, ENT, ED and Opthalmology portfolio.

You will be responsible for delivering and clinically managing your own portfolio of academic and commercial research studies and providing research support to investigators. This post will enable you to gain clinical knowledge and skills around a variety of specialist conditions by working across the Kensey Research Team and closely with the consultants, specialist nurses and multi-disciplinary teams.

A central part of the role will be to ensure that you provide excellent research monitoring and care to patients who have consented to participate in research and that the research/clinical teams you work with are appropriately trained, supported and developed within their professional/research roles. An important aspect of the role will be the maintenance of highly accurate and comprehensive records of data derived from the research studies.

Within this post you will develop processes and systems for maximising the recruitment of patients to academic and commercial studies and will ensure that research patients/participants are monitored, supported and receive the highest level of research nursing care. You will work across a range of studies including observational research, novel drug therapy and clinical interventions. Under the direction of the Lead Consultants, Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses you will coordinate the clinical aspects of trials, participate in the recruitment and follow up of patients with responsibility for the assessment, planning and on-going care and safety of the research participants throughout their study journey. The post holder will be required to work autonomously with supervision and guidance of the Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses.

About us

To work with the Research Team to support the safe conduct of clinical trials in accordance with the UK Clinical Trials Regulations and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and provide assurance that the rights, safety and wellbeing of trial participants are protected.

The role will, support the feasibility, costing and set up of research studies and assist in the recruitment of participants into observational and interventional research studies. The post holder will Lead onobservational and interventional studies as deemed appropriate and allocated by their line manager.

The post holder will be accountable for the assessment, planning, organisation and on-going care of research participants, whilstmaximising compliance with study/trial protocol Assist with the training ofprofessional staff ensuring compliance to protocol and practice guidelines.

The post holder will use relevant knowledge to perform research procedures in accordance with study protocols and extend this experience to support others in the research team and other health care professionals where appropriate. The post aims to co-ordinate services with acute, primary and community care, the main purpose being recruitment and follow-up of research participants in various hospitals/settings. Therefore there is a need to be geographically mobile and working out of hours as and when necessitated, which on occasion may include for early phase studies, weekends and nights.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Research & Development Directorate to join us as a Research Nurse in the Kensey Research Team primarily working on the Rheumatology, ENT, ED and Opthalmology portfolio.

You will be responsible for delivering and clinically managing your own portfolio of academic and commercial research studies and providing research support to investigators. This post will enable you to gain clinical knowledge and skills around a variety of specialist conditions by working across the Kensey Research Team and closely with the consultants, specialist nurses and multi-disciplinary teams.

A central part of the role will be to ensure that you provide excellent research monitoring and care to patients who have consented to participate in research and that the research/clinical teams you work with are appropriately trained, supported and developed within their professional/research roles. An important aspect of the role will be the maintenance of highly accurate and comprehensive records of data derived from the research studies.

Within this post you will develop processes and systems for maximising the recruitment of patients to academic and commercial studies and will ensure that research patients/participants are monitored, supported and receive the highest level of research nursing care. You will work across a range of studies including observational research, novel drug therapy and clinical interventions. Under the direction of the Lead Consultants, Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses you will coordinate the clinical aspects of trials, participate in the recruitment and follow up of patients with responsibility for the assessment, planning and on-going care and safety of the research participants throughout their study journey. The post holder will be required to work autonomously with supervision and guidance of the Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses.

About us

To work with the Research Team to support the safe conduct of clinical trials in accordance with the UK Clinical Trials Regulations and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and provide assurance that the rights, safety and wellbeing of trial participants are protected.

The role will, support the feasibility, costing and set up of research studies and assist in the recruitment of participants into observational and interventional research studies. The post holder will Lead onobservational and interventional studies as deemed appropriate and allocated by their line manager.

The post holder will be accountable for the assessment, planning, organisation and on-going care of research participants, whilstmaximising compliance with study/trial protocol Assist with the training ofprofessional staff ensuring compliance to protocol and practice guidelines.

The post holder will use relevant knowledge to perform research procedures in accordance with study protocols and extend this experience to support others in the research team and other health care professionals where appropriate. The post aims to co-ordinate services with acute, primary and community care, the main purpose being recruitment and follow-up of research participants in various hospitals/settings. Therefore there is a need to be geographically mobile and working out of hours as and when necessitated, which on occasion may include for early phase studies, weekends and nights.



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