Job summary
- Main area
- Research and Development
- Grade
- 4
- Contract
- Permanent: Fixed term/Secondment
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Core hours 8-6, 3 shift patterns 8-6, 8-4, 10-6)
- Job ref
- 411-COR-24-6781779
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/11/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Assistant Research Practitioner
4
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
The post holder will be a key member of the clinical research team providing research support and its associated clinical care for participants and patients enrolling in a variety of research studies and projects in Oncology , Critical Care and other areas within the Trust. The candidate will work across Research & Innovation, as the service needs to support research studies across Alder Hey dictates. The post holder will be involved in providing ongoing support to the research team. They will ensure data collection is to its highest standards, facilitating the production of good quality research with a commitment to the patient’s safety and wellbeing.
Applications are for 1 full time permanent position working with Oncology research, and a 12 month full time fixed term/secondment position working in Critical Care/Surgical research.
Please seek line managers permission if applying for the secondment position if applying internally.
Main duties of the job
Research:
- Assist with programmes for recruitment, enrolment, screening and retention of research participants in accordance with the protocol and ICH-Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and the Research Governance Framework
- Following training and competency assessment – obtain informed consent from participants for qualitative or non CTIMP trials as deemed appropriate and as delegated to do
- Contribute to appropriate data collection for participant data and to monitor data in accordance with the research protocol and standard operating procedures
- Support the wider research team when liaising with sponsor sites regarding data queries and for checking/ resolving data queries
- Assist with and maintain participant follow up in the form of telephone/ face to face contact for data collection ensuring study visit timescales are adhered to
- Take appropriate action in the event of both adverse events and serious adverse events within the required time frame under the guidance of a clinical research nurse/ midwife or principal investigator
- Assist the study management team to ensure each study has well maintained site file
- Record and assist with the entry of recruitment figures using EDGE and provide the necessary information for the NIHR CRN database
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills throughout the research process by communication with face-to-face meetings and telephone discussions
- Support the research team in preparing for monitoring visits
Working for our organisation
The Trust is committed to promoting an environment that embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Staff are expected to apply the values of respect, excellence, innovation, togetherness and openness in all that they do
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
- Maintain compassion, empathy, dignity, comfort and sensitively to participants and their relatives at all times
- Develop area specific knowledge in order to enhance practice
- Identify and recruit participants into clinical trials, assisting in the management, coordination and facilitation of the concurrent trials ensuring recruitment targets are met.
- Following training and competency assessment completion assist in the monitoring and recording of participant’s vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, temperature, respirations, and oxygen saturations) as indicated in the protocol and delegated to do. Report any abnormal results to the clinical research nurse/ midwife or principal investigator
- Following training and competency assessment completion measure and record a participant’s height and weight as indicated in the protocol and as delegated to do.
- Following training and competency assessment completion perform venepuncture as indicated in the protocol and as delegated to do so
- Following training and competency assessment completion undertake clinical tasks relevant to the specific clinical area and research being conducted, for example urinalysis, screening swabs, ECG recording
- Assist the clinical research nursing/ midwife and research medical staff with various clinical procedures when trained, competency assessed and as delegated to do
- Direct or escort participants between departments
- Collect participant medication for pharmacy, if appropriate
- Clean equipment after use in line with IPC guidance and informing the clinical research nurse/midwife when repairs are needed
Education & Development:
- To undertake annual mandatory training in accordance with Trust policy
- To continuously work to develop skills and knowledge utilising the competency framework
- Attend investigation meetings and site initiation visits to ensure an in-depth knowledge of all study protocols
- Maintain own training records
- Attend study specific training as required and complete al necessary competency assessment documentation
- Attend team meetings contributing to the development of the team and Research & Innovation
- Be familiar and adhere to the Research & Innovation and Trust wide research and clinical standard operating procedures
Administration/ clerical:
- Answer the telephone, direct enquiries to the most suitable team member and take messages passing them on in a timely manner · Provide clerical support, including faxing, photocopying, scanning, and filing
- Ensure coordination and collection of participant medical notes as required for screening, monitoring, and audit
- Transfer laboratory specimens to the relevant laboratories using appropriate equipment
- Assist in maintaining electronic databases and paper records, to ensure that patients schedule to have follow up visits are not overlooked and have fulfilled all study assessments according to the protocol
- Assist in ensuring all documentation is filed in a timely manner and ready for
- Assist with inspections as required
- Arrange couriers/post for clinical research samples
- Support the research team with general tasks as required
- Possess IT skills – Word, PowerPoint and familiar with email correspondence
- Data entry
- Ability to use patient related hospital computer systems, including research study databases
- Prepare letters for patients, ensuring these are sent out in a timely manner as required
- Comply with the Data Protection Act, GPDR legislation and Caldicott Guidelines in relation to confidential data
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- NVQ/Diploma level qualification or equivalent training and/or experience
Desirable criteria
- Degree in scientific/healthcare discipline
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a clinical or patient facing environment
- Proven experience of working to deadlines
- Proven experience of dealing with a busy workload
- Experience of working in a research environment
Desirable criteria
- Data manager experience
- Venepuncture trained
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge/understanding of healthcare environment
- Knowledge of ICH- Good Clinical Practice regulations relating to clinical research Medical knowledge/terminology specific to the specialty
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- Knowledge of Trust policies and procedures
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Awareness and respect for confidentiality
- Demonstrate IT skills including email and Microsoft office programs (including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Information Governance
- Knowledge of Patient Information Systems
- Competent in Venepuncture Clinical Skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura O'Malley
- Job title
- Clinical Research Team Leader
- Email address
- Laura.O'[email protected]
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