Clinical Research Midwife - ref. o62270603
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it.Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’.Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS.We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed midwife with excellent interpersonal, organisational skills and an active interest in research?
A great opportunity has opened up for a Band 6 Clinical Research Midwife to join our successful research delivery team. They will be an integral member of the Reproductive Health & Childbirth Research Team, working on a portfolio of studies, involved in the successful set up and running of ongoing clinical research studies and trials.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to appoint a Clinical Research Midwife to support a portfolio of research studies in our busy unit.
The post holder will be involved in ensuring that all research undertaken within the department safeguards the well being of patients and is conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004, Research Governance Framework and Amended Regulations 2006.
The post holder will be based within Reproductive Health & Childbirth and may therefore work with different clinical teams to support studies and trials within RH&C.
This is an excellent opportunity to enable the individual to gain a wide range of skills and experience within the clinical research environment. You will be employed by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, working closely with our academic partners at King’s College London.
You will have responsibility for screening patients for recruitment, randomising patients into studies, ensuring the patient pathway in the trials is completed, liaising with other centres, completing electronic and paper CRFs and provide interim trial reports in conjunction with Principal Investigators (PIs).
Duties will also include providing support to patients who have been, or have the potential to be, recruited into the trials.
More information on the role and its requirements can be found in the job description and person specification documentation.
Working for our organisation
Our team consists of research nurses, midwives and clinical research practitioners all working on a wide range of clinical research studies and trials on Reproductive Health & Childbirth portfolio.
We are very fortunate to also be closely linked with the King's College London Department of Women and Children's Health and a member of the King's Health Partners.
The NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) supports patients, the public and health and care organisations across England to participate in high-quality research, thereby advancing knowledge and improving care. The CRN supports research being delivered through 30 specialty therapy areas and 15 Local Clinical Research Networks.These provide a network of research expertise and clinical leadership to deliver research studies on the NIHR CRN Portfolio of studies.
From April 2024, the CRN will transition to a new organisation, the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN).
The NIHR RDN is being established to support the delivery of high quality research that enables the best care for our population. The new organisation will build on the success of the CRN to support the country's world-class research system to deliver for the future.
Being embedded within the LCRN and having the close working partnership with King's College London and the academic links gives us a unique position and enables us to be at the forefront of clinical research within the field of Reproductive Health and Childbirth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be based within the Women’s Health Research team, with strong links to King’s College London, embedded within and based at St Thomas’ Hospital with some studies being delivered across Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. This is an established research unit with a long history of undertaking clinical trials in obstetrics.The team is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scientists with a commitment to translational research.
Person specification
Knowledge/ Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Midwife NMC Registration with previous acute NHS experience
- Relevant specialist course or equivalent experience
- A Clinical Research qualification
- Educated to degree level or above
Previous experience
Essential criteria- Extensive experience of working within a clinical environment as a registered midwife
- Previous post registration experience within midwifery
- Experienced and competent in the management of patients within the speciality
- Experience with Databases
- Experience with Excel Spreadsheets, and patient database systems
- Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working
- Extensive experience of working in an acute NHS setting.
- Experience of teaching colleagues and staff
- Post registration experience in community or hospital experience
- Experience in Clinical Research
- Familiar with Good Clinical Practice & Certification
- Experience of electronic data capture.
Skills
Essential criteria- Extensive knowledge of midwifery practice Knowledge of research methodologies
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit.
- Knowledge of NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Competency in medication administration including IV drugs.
- Organisation and management skills.
- Ability to perform within a team in addition to leadership
- Articulate with advanced written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Ability to problem solve.
- Ability to perform clinical activities specific to midwifery and obstetrics
- IT skills including use of email and office packages.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service.We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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