Job summary
- Main area
- 317 CR Team 1 521000
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-30-044
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/08/2025
Employer heading
Research Nurse
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen within the Oncology and Haematology Research Team for a full time Band 6 Research Nurse.
We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic and well organized individual who can work under pressure in the delivery of important cancer clinical trials.
The post holder will work in partnership with the research team and MDT to manage all aspects of delivering our vast and varied portfolio of late phase Oncology, and all phases of Haematology clinical trials. A background knowledge in Haematology/Oncology Adult nursing is essential to the role.
Applicants must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, liaising with many other disciplines within and outside the team is an integral part of this role.
The candidate will have the opportunity to develop their existing nursing skills, gain specialist knowledge of Clinical Research Delivery, and expand their sphere of practice in all cancer tumour groups. With this in mind the successful candidate must be willing to undertake further training and education appropriate to the role.
- Interview Date Friday 29 August 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
- Identify potential (appropriate) patients
- Recruit to time and target
- Communicate effectively with patients to receive informed consent
- Collaboration with various departments to organise investigations required by trial protocol
- Arrange/Book scans (MRI, CT scans, Nuclear Medicine etc.)
- Safe administration of investigational chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies as per specific protocols
- Maintain a high standard of patient care and safety in clinical trial delivery
- Processing blood samples in the lab, documentation and tracking of samples
- Shipping of samples to various global destinations
- Organise all patient appointments/medical reviews
- Point of contact for patients
- Work in accordance with Research Governance
- Support and motivate colleagues, championing service user safety and dignity to drive continuous improvement
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To participate in the creation and maintenance of a high-quality clinical research environment.
- To initiate and manage nursing activities related to academic studies and clinical trials, from initiation to termination, according to ICH good clinical practice guidelines.
- Supervise junior members of the team.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
- • Academic attainment at diploma level and prepared to undertake degree level study
- • Meets Nursing and Midwifery council requirements for mentorship
Desirable criteria
- • Current driving licence if relevant to role
- • Academic attainment at degree/masters’ level
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • An understanding of the application of research in the clinical governance agenda
- • An understanding of research governance and the research process
- • Substantial post registration experience in clinical speciality area and/or clinical research delivery
- • Evidence of research activity and ability to demonstrate research competency
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working within speciality
- • Experience of supporting clinical research delivery
- • Experience related to information retrieval and research application
- • Experience of mentoring junior staff
- • Evidence of current role expansion that can be applied to the role
- • Experience of project management
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Excellent IT knowledge/skills
- • Advanced interpersonal and communication skills
- • Advanced clinical skills (i.e., venepuncture, cannulation, ECG)
- • High level of organisation and time management skills
- • Ability to work on own initiative
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Katy Tait
- Job title
- Research Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912139205
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