Job summary
- Main area
- Research
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 16 months (Fixed term/secondment until end date March 2028)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-R&D-267223
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Wing Victoria House
- Town
- Fulbourn
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/08/2027
Employer heading
Agile Research Delivery Team Clinical Manager
Band 7
Job overview
Would you like to take the next step in your career and help lead the delivery of world-class health and care research to improve people’s lives? An exciting opportunity has arisen within the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) East of England Research Delivery Network (RDN). We are searching for a highly motivated and experienced individual to lead the Agile Research Delivery Team in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region based at Victoria House, Fulbourn.
The role involves leading a regionally based, flexibly deployed team of multi professionals to deliver NIHR RDN Portfolio studies in varied health and care settings across all therapeutic areas. It will involve working alongside different professions from multiple organisations and will be an integral part of the Agile Research Delivery Team. If you have relevant research experience, have strong interpersonal and leadership skills, like a challenge and have a desire to make a difference, this could be the role for you!
Main duties of the job
Motivate and inspire teams by being a visible leader and acting as a role model
Provide management of local feasibility assessments for studies, including identifying potential sites/investigators that could conduct the study
Working closely with the stakeholders and senior leaders across settings to ensure effective and efficient deployment of Agile Research Delivery Team
Provide all line management duties and performance related activities for direct reports
Lead on the contractual arrangements for research delivery staff deployed across NHS and wider health and care settings
Be responsible for the management of multiple diverse research project information systems and complex clinical research data ensuring this is of a high quality and provided in a timely manner
You will be able to communicate confidently in tasks such as public speaking, influencing, relationship management, project management and will have good presentation skills
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 17th August 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 27th August 2026.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to or working towards postgraduate degree level in a science or health related discipline or in another field with experience of research trials or equivalent experience/training
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Registered Nurse or AHP on relevant part of the professional register (NMC / HCPC) or for CRPs on, or working towards accredited registration with the AHCS
- Qualification (or working towards) in leadership and management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Effective leadership skills with experience of line management of staff, including appraisals, in a health or care setting. Previous experience of nursing within a research environment.
- Knowledge and experience of data interpretation, verification and reporting to local and national centres.
- Extensive or significant experience of the care of patients/participants enrolled in research studies.
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge of the governance and legislative frameworks for conducting clinical research studies, including UK Policy Framework for Health and Care Research, UK Clinical Trials Regulations and Good Clinical Practice
- Significant knowledge and experience of the clinical trial and health and care research lifecycle including experience of the setup of clinical research studies in a health and care setting.
- Understanding of personal accountability.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills, particularly in use of Web applications, Google Workspace applications and MS Office applications
- Excellent planning and organisational skills Excellent relationship management, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously and to motivate self and others
- Ability to plan and coordinate multidisciplinary activities associated with the management of research study(ies) including, where relevant, work allocation, deployment, and supervision of staff to ensure smooth running of the research study(ies).
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to travel for work
- Current driving licence
- A confident and experienced leader and manager in a health care setting
- Adaptable/flexible approach to work
- Organised with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work calmly, effectively and independently under pressure
- Desire to maintain competence level through continuous learning
Additional details
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Helen Jung
- Job title
- Head of Research Delivery and Support
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07523940975
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Box 184
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
- Telephone
- 01223 217038
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