Job summary
- Main area
- Research and Development
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End date 12 months from start date)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7186489
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
- Town
- Northwood
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, Plus 15% High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Research & Development Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Research and Development Facilitator who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the R&D Coordinator in the approval and management procedures for clinical research undertaken at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre.
You will manage the annual progress reporting on clinical trials and trial status through to archiving. You will also be responsible for supporting the R&D Office team with processing amendments, organising any required research meetings, taking minutes. managing recruitment report and responsibility for reporting data to the Clinical Research Network via their database and other data capture systems.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
To lead as the department’s database administrator for the EDGE system.
To manage amendment processing to meet internal and external deadlines.
To manage quality assurance of all trial related documentation in accordance with relevant legislation and guidelines.
To assist with preparation for audit and inspections within assigned teams.
Organise and maintain effective data storage, data input and filling systems for all aspects of the R&D Office functions.
To act as a point of contact for any R&D Office queries from staff, external bodies or the public and to respond to or redirect these to the appropriate member of staff or R&D team as appropriate.
To arrange meetings, book meeting rooms and organise refreshments for meetings managed by staff within the R&D Office.
Prepare and distribute agendas and papers for Committees and other relevant meetings as appropriate, in accordance with Trust policies, procedures and timescales. This should be completed in discussion with the relevant Chair.
Take and transcribe accurate minutes of formal meetings in a timely fashion.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Degree level education or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Relevant training courses in clinical research as Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in clinical trial administration including data management and trial management
- Experience of working in an NHS or University setting
- Experience of staff supervision/ management
Desirable criteria
- Management of databases
- Making improvements to working practice
- Supporting the monitoring of research
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good Organisational Skills
- Good IT Skills
- Good Oral & Written Communication Skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to understand research protocols
- Ability to understand case report forms
Desirable criteria
- Ability to set up/ develop team reporting mechanisms (i.e. recruitment activity logs, screening logs, patient visit logs, costing spread sheets, case report form trackers and electronic pro-formas).
- Ability to maintaining investigator site files in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and Trust Standard Operating Procedures
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Familiar with Good Clinical Practice and other research regulatory requirement. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power point, etc)
- Understanding of Medical Terminology
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of research administration databases such as EDGE
- Management of databases
- Archiving of research documents
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aarzoo Khan
- Job title
- R&D Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 826 2397
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