Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There are approximately 300 Research Nurses, AHPs, Midwives and Clinical Trials Assistants, working together across the Trust, within our award winning teams to bring exciting research opportunities to UHS for the benefit of our patients and for the future of healthcare. 

The Respiratory research nursing teams provide regular contact with patients and healthy volunteers participating in research that will make a real difference to future patient care. The team undertake drug trials, studies that look at different interventions as well as studies that help us understand how the body works, how genes or lifestyle choices affect health, and studies that help us more fully understand chronic diseases or acute infections. 

Working in the team you will have the opportunity to work on a range of studies including asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis and idiopathic lung disease. With all studies, the well-being and safety of our research patients/ participants is at the heart of all we do as is our confidence that the data we provide is accurate and reproducible.

The Clinical Research Facility has adult and paediatric ward beds plus consulting rooms, a physiology lab, temperature-humidity controlled room and a bronchoscopy suite. Majority of research patients come from the Wessex region however the CRF is a national dosing centre for advanced therapy medication so patients come from all over the country for this treatment. 

The CRF is award winning with many of our nurses winning posters at national and international conferences, and wining prizes in national competitions in pharmacology and in nursing. The CRF is supported by its own education team and with close links to the University of Southampton; there are lots of opportunities to develop your career academically or professionally.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Following a robust induction and full research training as a Band 5 Research Nurse you will:

•    Be responsible for providing specialist research and clinical care to research participants
•    You will assist in the management, coordination and implementation of research studies in the CRF
•    You will provide clinical supervision to unregistered staff and students 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

•    Registered nurse with post registration experience in a relevant clinical speciality
•    NHS or equivalent experience
•    An interest in working in clinical research 
•    Good interpersonal communication, organisation and time management skills
•    Clear written communication with attention to detail and IT literate
•    Able to work flexible hours including shifts and night duty rotation
•    Evidence of teaching and supporting learners in practice

There is no set shift rotation and the majority of the time you will work Monday to Friday 8-4pm; however we expect that you will also work a variety of flexible hours including long days, night, and weekends on an adhoc basis as per your research study requirements