Senior Research Nurse/ Seal CRF Unit Manager
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
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, dynamic and clinically experienced children’s nurse to join the Evelina London paediatric allergy research team. This pivotal post will be part of the senior management team, acting as a key leader to a team of research professionals within the Seal Clinical Research Facility and will contribute to the achievement of the wider clinical and research related strategic objectives outlined by the Trust and Evelina London.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Band 6 or an established Band 7 as Clinical Research Facility Manager /Senior Clinical Research Nurse to lead, along with the Research Matron, a team with an extensive portfolio of NIHR non-commercial and commercial studies within the Paediatric Allergy research speciality.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will possess an excellent range of clinical skills, experience working with children, young people and families, particularly in the field of allergy and be able to demonstrate knowledge of clinical and research governance and experience of supporting clinical research, including the coordination of complex clinical trials, in the NHS setting.You will be responsible for management and leadership of the clinical research facility whilst acting as a knowledgeable resource for the wider research team. The post holder will support the development and implementation of strategies to increase clinical trial activity across the neonatal and paediatric research portfolio as well as develop extensive project management skills, working alongside the Research Matron, as the Evelina London moves to expand capacity within our purpose built Clinical Research Facility.
As a skilled communicator, the successful candidate must also possess excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills, acting as an ambassador for promoting evidence based practice and research utilisation.
Working for our organisation
This post has been created as a consequence of sustained activity in paediatric research. The Trust is one of London’s largest recruiting paediatric sites contributing to NIHR Clinical Research Network (NIHR-CRN) supported studies. Currently, all major paediatric subspecialties, with the exception of hepatology and neurosurgery, are located in GSTFT and all areas are engaging in NIHR-CRN supported studies.
The paediatric clinical research team in which this post sits will (a) contribute to the ongoing expansion of research activity and capabilities within Evelina London Children’s Hospital. facility (b) facilitate greater paediatric access to the Wolf and Seal Clinical Research Facilities within ELCH, (c) support neonatal research occurring within the Centre for the Developing Brain and d) through working with the existing research nurse pool, promote research activity elsewhere within ELCH and within our partner organisations in Kings Healthcare Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached for an extensive review of job requirements. An informal visit and discussion is strongly advised.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria- NMC Level One Registration (Child) Nursing qualification
- Holder of current paediatric intermediate life support qualification and defibrillation skills
- GCP accreditation and Informed Consent certification
Experience
Essential criteria- Considerable experience in clinical trials, teaching and mentoring as demonstrated by your individual portfolio.
- Clinical experience of caring for children and young people with paediatric allergy and asthma
- Previous experience of change and leadership management and problem solving
- Experience of managing staff and leading teams
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge of research governance and regulations (ICH/GCP and EU Directives)
- Able to manage complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison in relation to research trials/studies.
- Able to teach/deliver core training of individual clinical trial/study protocols to junior members of staff.
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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