Research & Development Facilitator

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Research and Development Facilitator who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the R&D Coordinator in the approval and management procedures for clinical research undertaken at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.

managing recruitment report and responsibility for reporting data to the Clinical Research Network via their database and other data capture systems.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To lead as the department’s database administrator for the EDGE system.

To manage amendment processing to meet internal and external deadlines.

To manage quality assurance of all trial related documentation in accordance with relevant legislation and guidelines.

To assist with preparation for audit and inspections within assigned teams.

Organise and maintain effective data storage, data input and filling systems for all aspects of the R&D Office functions.

To act as a point of contact for any R&D Office queries from staff, external bodies or the public and to respond to or redirect these to the appropriate member of staff or R&D team as appropriate.

To arrange meetings, book meeting rooms and organise refreshments for meetings managed by staff within the R&D Office.

Prepare and distribute agendas and papers for Committees and other relevant meetings as appropriate, in accordance with Trust policies, procedures and timescales. This should be completed in discussion with the relevant Chair.

Take and transcribe accurate minutes of formal meetings in a timely fashion.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

• Degree level education or equivalent experience

• Relevant training courses in clinical research as Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

Previous Experience

• Experience in clinical trial administration including data management and trial management
• Experience of working in an NHS or University setting
• Experience of staff supervision/ management

• Management of databases
• Making improvements to working practice
• Supporting the monitoring of research

Skills

• Good Organisational Skills
• Good IT Skills
• Good Oral & Written Communication Skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to understand research protocols
• Ability to understand case report forms

• Ability to set up/ develop team reporting mechanisms (i.e. recruitment activity logs, screening logs, patient visit logs, costing spread sheets, case report form trackers and electronic pro-formas).
• Ability to maintaining investigator site files in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and Trust Standard Operating Procedures

Knowledge

• Familiar with Good Clinical Practice and other research regulatory requirement. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power point, etc)
• Understanding of Medical Terminology

• Knowledge of research administration databases such as EDGE
• Management of databases
• Archiving of research documents

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include

We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect

We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve

We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [email protected]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

When you apply...

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As a publicly funded employer, we need to ensure we utilise our funds responsibly, this may mean we are unable to support sponsorship required to gain the right to work for particular positions. We strongly advise you to contact the line manager or a member of the Resourcing Team before applying to confirm if we will be able to support with sponsorship for that post.

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Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.