Job overview

Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in East London 
and beyond.

An exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Research Nurse to join the Children’s research team at Barts Health NHS Trust, this will be a one year grant funded post. The research that we conduct is focused on the holistic approach to patient care and significantly contributes to the future progress of healthcare for all. Working clinically with the team you will promote high standards of both patient care and research practice and contribute to the recruitment and retention of patients in clinical research studies. 

The post holder’s primary role will be to contribute actively to the conduct, coordination and delivery of the paediatric respiratory research studies spanning the community and hospital settings. This role would involve working with paediatric tuberculosis clinics and TB nurses and doctors recruiting children to studies involving clinical data and sample collection from children in East London at The Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross University Hospital and Newham University sites within Barts Health NHS Trusts.

Main duties of the job

Working effectively with the immediate and broader multidisciplinary team, being responsible for ensuring that high standards of clinical care planning, delivery, safety and patient satisfaction is to a very high standard, compliant with trust policy, study protocol requirements, local and national guidance and legislation. The post holder will be responsible for assessing and managing the care pathways for patients and carers participating in research studies. This will involve the recruitment, obtaining informed consent, education and monitoring of children in studies and the collection and documentation of accurate data. You will work closely with your extended team, sponsors, R&D, investigators and the study / clinical teams. You will undertake and complete studies on the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) portfolio in a reliable, timely and efficient fashion. You will work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in the management of your own caseload of children and carers in the clinical studies. The post holder will deliver the studies under the leadership of the Senior Research Nurse and Children’s Lead Research Nurse at the Royal London Hospital Children’s Clinical Research Facility.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.