Job summary
- Main area
- Research Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-CR-2085
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/10/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/10/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Research Nurse
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Clinical Research Nurse to join the dynamic Peart Rose Research Team – Pulmonary Hypertension and Other Cardiology (PHOC) hub. The Peart Rose Research Team manages the delivery of a wide variety of studies within the Cardiovascular Directorate; co-ordinating research trials across three acute hospital sites (Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital). Much of the role will be conducted at Hammersmith Hospital; however, flexibility with time and adaptability to work in different environments especially across three sites will be necessary to meet study requirements.
Main duties of the job
- To facilitate efficient, safe and participant-focused research across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
- To contribute to the management of the local portfolio of clinical research studies.
- To work according to the principles of Good Clinical Practice & research governance standards for clinical research studies.
- To establish working relationships with Clinical Trials Units and clinical research study personnel to ensure the smooth running of research studies
- to be the first point of contact for your research studies.
- To input into the feasibility and set-up processes for new studies, including patient target setting.
- To organise/attend relevant meetings such as site initiation meetings
- To recognise if the design of studies conflicts with regulatory frameworks and legal requirements and to act on concerns raised.
- To ensure that the clinical study protocols you are working on are adhered to and that research does not deviate from them.
- To identify and help recruit patients eligible to enter clinical research studies.
- To seek and participate in informed consent processes prior to any research-related procedure, in accordance with the study protocol and local procedures.
- To register/randomise patients into research studies.
- To identify barriers to recruitment to research studies and ensure that the Team Leader is aware of them, and to support and develop action plans and strategies to overcome these barriers as required.
- To line manage junior staff
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration for nurses
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continuous personal and academic development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical research experience within the cardiovascular specialty, specifically pulmonary hypertension, structural cardiology, inherited heart conditions, heart failure, lipidology
- Established experience in cardiovascular nursing, preferably in pulmonary hypertension, structural cardiology, inherited heart conditions, heart failure, lipidology
- Experience of working within NHS environment and with service users.
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervision of junior staff
- Quality improvement experience
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of leadership skills
- In-depth knowledge of clinical research methodology and trial protocols and to communicate this to professionals and lay persons
- Phlebotomy/cannulation skills
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Girelli
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Research Nurse/Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3313 6758
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