Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical Trials Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 4
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. 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.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Trials Assistant to join the Women’s Health Research team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to deliver The Generation Study.
Do you want to help us transform the quality of NHS genetic services for neonates? We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Clinical Trials Assistant funded to join our team at West Middlesex Hospital for 18 months. Our team is leading on transformation in patient care by delivering The Generation Study, which is sponsored by Genomics England. The study focuses on screening neonates for approximately 200 rare conditions at birth using umbilical cord blood. Potential participants will be approached during their pregnancy and counselled on the study.
If you are committed to contributing to a team delivering excellence in research in genomics and would like to develop your research experience, this is the post for you. You will be joining an enthusiastic, friendly, motivated multidisciplinary research team working closely with the obstetricians, midwives and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This is an ideal opportunity to contribute to translating research into clinical practice for the benefit of patients.
If you are enthusiastic, have a positive and flexible approach to your practice and are passionate about improving women's healthcare, please consider applying.
Main duties of the job
We are a small team who are dedicated to growth and development at the Trust. The Women's Health Research Team deliver studies covering a variety of women's health conditions in both gynaecology, pregnancy and reproductive health. Within the team we support our team members to grow and develop. The cross-site teams approach the studies selected and the delivery of these studies collaboratively. Our key goals are to provide studies which will improve the health of women and their families and to be accessible to all demographics. The trust has undertaken a lot of improvements to ensure that women and their families can access relevant information in a variety of mediums and languages and this is something we are passionate about in the Women's Health Research Team.
The post-holder will work with The Generation Study Coordinator who works cross site as well as with a Research Midwife who will be based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. You will lead on sample collection and registration as well as data management in line with the research protocol, while also adhering to good clinical practice (GCP) standards. In addition to this you will support the team with participant identification, outreach and the ordering of study consumables.
For more information about the Generation Study please visit:
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Trials Assistant will provide a good standard of care, working as member of the multidisciplinary team to contribute to and support research based practice. Under the direct supervision of Research Nurses, the research assistant will undertake all aspects of care for patients in clinical research studies such as:
- Obtaining informed consent for non-CTIMP studies
- Conducting baseline and follow up visits as per study protocol
- Collecting clinical and non-clinical data as per study protocol
Undertaking clinical procedures such as vital signs and height and weight - Collecting research samples: willing to become proficient in phlebotomy,processing, labelling and storage of research samples
Providing on-going support to patients and volunteers with regards to their participation
Administrative Duties
- Under supervision of the Research Nurses and Midwives, the Clinical Trials Assistant will provide support for administrative elements of research studies such as:
- Maintaining investigator site files and working files
- Assisting with transfer of source data into electronic data capture system's
- Assisting with management of study amendments
- Locating and tracking of medical records
- Assisting with audit preparation
- Assisting with the filing of research material such as laboratory and imaging reporting
- Correct storage of research consumables including monitoring use by dates and reducing excess storage
- Procurement of supplies
Education and Development Duties
- The Clinical Trials Assistant is responsible for:
- Attending induction training
- Attending mandatory training and ensuring updates are undertaken as required
- Attending research specific training (such as GCP)
Attending and contributing to team meetings and learning sessions such as scenario based learning - Maintaining research training log and research CV
- Ensuring PDR objectives are met as required
Communication
The Clinical Trials Assistant is responsible for:
- Applying Trust values in all working relationships to patients, carers and staff.
- Ensuring communication is used effectively in the interests of patient care, including the use of clinical incident reporting if necessary
- Assisting with research events such as patient/public campaigns
- Demonstrating politeness, courtesy, and sensitivity in dealing with patients/clients, visitors/relatives and colleagues, maintaining good customer relations and recognising individuality and rights for each patient in line with Trust values.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Desirable criteria
- A minimum of 6 GCSEs including Mathematics & English, IT skills/ECDL equivalent
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent’ or ‘RSA3 or equivalent’
- Degree level or equivalent
Trust values
Essential criteria
- Putting patients first
- Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
- Open, welcoming and honest
- Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
- Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have an interest in and understanding of research governance and ethical issues
- Experience working in a pressurised environment
- Previous experience within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NHS research
- Knowledge of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and confidentiality
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- Excellent oral & written communication skills
- Communicate effectively at all levels with medical & managerial staff both internally and externally
- Attention to detail & methodical
- Experience using database systems
- Good administrative skills
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Flexible, discrete & diplomatic
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Able to work on own initiative or under close direction, depending on the task
- Confident, friendly and approachable
- Proactive approach to problem solving
- Well organised
- Professional, polite and courteous manner
- Good listening & communication skills
- Good prioritising sills
- Polite & courteous
- Flexible approach to work
- Reliable work record
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
- Padmasree Potru
- Job title
- Coordinator of The Generation Study
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07340702896
- Additional information
For further details /informal visits contact:
Padmasree Potru - Coordinator of The Generation Study
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07340702896
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