Job vacancy: Head of Investigator Initiated Trials Unit, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton

Job summary

Main area: Administration
Contract: 24 months (Fixed Term)
Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week
Job ref: 282-ICR

Employer: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Institute of Cancer Research
Town: Sutton
Salary: £59,490 - £78,028 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/05/2025 23:59

Head of Investigator Initiated Trials Unit

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information, please refer to the job description and person specification

Strategic Leadership

Develop a portfolio of transformational trials by engaging with Investigators in alignment with organizational strategies and available funding streams.

Develop the DDU-IIT team, maintaining a core team of expert staff and building up longer-term viability of capacity for project management and monitoring.

Provide a strategic vision for the DDU-IIT team to complement ICR/RM strategy and business plan, ensuring performance is in line with organisational requirements.

Contribute to the overall leadership of the DDU by playing an active role in the senior management team, deputising for the Head of Operations when absent.

Operational Leadership

Lead the execution of investigator-initiated trials, ensuring the integration of digital systems for realtime data tracking, compliance monitoring, and risk assessment.

Oversee and direct clinical research operations to ensure studies are conducted to the highest standards and in compliance with ICH-GCP and UK legislation.

Oversee the management of investigator-initiated trials, ensuring systems are established to monitor all aspects of study progress, including screening, recruitment, compliance, IMP management, pharmacovigilance and reporting.

Oversee the development and use of electronic regulatory documentation and digital pharmacovigilance systems to enhance reporting accuracy and compliance

Prepare or oversee preparation of clinical study protocols in conjunction with Chief Investigator and relevant scientists

Managerial, Supervisory, Advisory Responsibilities

Structure the DDU-IIT team with appropriate workforce planning and securing appropriate funding.

Supervise all project management, monitoring, pharmacovigilance and data management activities undertaken within the DDU-IIT team.

Oversee staff recruitment and development including objective setting, performance appraisal and training. Remain directly responsible for all such activities for the direct reports

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.