Job summary
- Main area
- Medical Research & Development
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term: 6 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CORP- 7209570-FZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield University Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Trainee Clinical Trials Research Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 4
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is committed to hosting high-quality research. The Clinical Research Unit based at Barnes Hospital (temporarily based in Teddington) serves a Trust-wide research portfolio in observational and interventional Phase II-IV trials. We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Trainee Clinical Research Trials Assistant to join the Team and support our work on National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Portfolio studies. This post provides a great opportunity for the successful candidate to gain experience in clinical research delivery, work together with other researchers in the Team, recruit participants and carry out clinical and psychometric assessments. Personal professional development through training, educational meetings and career guidance will also be available. Applicants are welcome to contact the Clinical Research Unit for further information by e-mailing Tania West, Head of Research: [email protected]
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways in R&D Governance and Clinical Research Delivery.
In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in R&D Governance, setting up and delivering clinical research.
Main duties of the job
As part of this role, the candidate would be expected to support our clinical research delivery team with the screening, identification, and recruitment participants into NIHR clinical research studies, and support the research delivery team across all areas of the Trust NIHR research portfolio. This may involve cross-site working. The post will be for 6 months fixed term in the first instance.
Agile and flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible and agile working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
The post will be based in the R&D Office located at Springfield University Hospital, with cross-site working across the Clinical Research Unit (CRU) located at Barnes Hospital (temporarily in Teddington) and Tolworth Hospital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
1. Develop knowledge of the ethical principles for clinical research and its implications for
current practice.
2. As a member of the R&D team, s/he will be responsible for the provision of robust
operational support in all aspects of clinical trials administration according to Good
Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, local standard operating procedures (SOPs) and
other relevant SWLStG policies.
3. Be responsible for his/her own personal and professional development, ensuring that
all relevant skills and training (e.g. GCP) remaining up-to-date to carry out all jobrelated responsibilities.
4. Help to identify mental health service users and carers who are eligible to take part in
a range of research projects and to provide information and support for users involved
in research projects.
5. Help to collect data, which will involve reviewing electronic medical records and data
entry.
6. Help to recruit patients into observational research studies, through screening records,
assisting to recruit participants, and participate in the follow-up and completion of
relevant trial-specific paperwork.
7. Post holder will ensure that patients’ care and treatment, assessments, follow-up and
data collection are conducted according to the appropriate research protocols.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma in Life Sciences (Biomedical science, psychology, medical sciences etc.) or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification (Master’s or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of at least one years’ recent experience of working within clinical research
Desirable criteria
- Some clinical experience of working in Dementia or in a mental health setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Tania West
- Job title
- R&D Governance and Clinical Trials Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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