Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Research Nurse - Cardiology
Band 7
Job overview
The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination and
management of the Cardiology Research team at St Georges Hospital alongside another Band 7 Research Nurse.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the Clinical Research Matron/Head of Research Nursing and wider multidisciplinary team in the management of a portfolio of clinical trials and be accountable for the achievement of local and national targets in relation to the service.
The post holder will be involved in ensuring that any research undertaken safeguards the well-being of the patient and is conducted within Good Clinical Practice Guidelines for research. The post holder will have the skills to lead by example as an expert practitioner providing organisation and leadership to the multi-professional team and supporting the
patient throughout a clinical trial.
The post holder will also be expected to have sufficient skills to enable patients to make informed choices concerning their involvement in clinical trials by providing advice and information and acting as the patients advocate. The post holder must also be willing to move to different clinical specialties within the remit of their qualifications and where the need to do so is identified.
Main duties of the job
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, committed and experienced individual in the Cardiology Research Team within the Molecular & Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS) as a Senior Cardiology Research Nurse.
This is an exciting opportunity with responsibility for the set-up, recruiting to, and co-ordinating early and late phase clinical trials, and the shared line management and training of research staff working in this portfolio.
The key theme of research excellence in Cardiology is sudden death/inherited arrhythmias and sports cardiology. These are well represented and further enhanced by linked cardiac topics including heart failure, echo and pathology. The department participates in many trials, including NIHR portfolio work.
Participation in high quality early and late phase trials is critically important for Cardiology to maintain its position as a leader in the Cardiology Research field worldwide and the successful candidate will be key to this. The successful candidate will work closely with Principal Investigators to establish and further develop Cardiovascular research.
Key responsibilities of the post include the co-ordination and shared management of the Cardiology team and an agreed research portfolio. Central to this role is responsibility for assessing and managing the care pathways for patients participating in early/late phase clinical trials.
Informal visits are encouraged.
Working for our organisation
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Candidates are strongly advised to refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for this post to to review the details and main responsibilities for this role before application.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Completed post graduate qualification in speciality or clinical research related field
- Teaching & assessing qualification or equivalent relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- Completed Master’s degree in the speciality or related field or willing to work towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a complex clinical research workload at Band 6 or above
- Knowledge and experience of handling complex relationships
- Experience of collaborating with other agencies
- Evidence of successfully working with and contributing to a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of developing others through CPD / PDR / clinical supervision
- Experience of formal/ informal teaching of patients and staff
- Experience and evidence of using highly developed motivational and negotiation skills to affect change.
- Experience of explaining complex concepts to patients in a clear and simplified manner
- Experience of working as a patients advocate
Desirable criteria
- Experience of radiation protection procedures
- Experience of phlebotomy
- Cardiology Clinical or Research experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage own & other’s time, workload and caseload effectively
- Computer literacy including e-mails, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint & databases utilised in clinical research
- Ability to use effective written & verbal skills to overcome barriers to communication.
- Ability to take initiative, and work autonomously
- Committed to personal development
- Highly motivated & able to motivate others
- Able to communicate complex information effectively across disciplines and agencies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of legislation & guidelines relevant to clinical research
- Working knowledge of current Health and Safety issues relevant to post
Other
Essential criteria
- Flexible attitude to ways and hours of working
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
- Tinashe Samakomva
- Job title
- Head of Research Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087250230
- Additional information
Professor Maite Tome
Consultant Cardiologist
Email: [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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07553093677
- Telephone
- 07553093677
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