Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosciences
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 5 years (Fixed term/secondment)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0403-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/08/2025
Employer heading
Research Nurse Neurosciences
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a nurse with significant experience of working within neurology or Clinical Research to join a dynamic research team within STH.
To manage the delivery of the EJS ACT-PD Trial, facilitate recruitment from under-served communities and support the trial’s delivery across less experienced sites across Research Delivery Network region.
EJS ACT-PD is a multi-arm, multi-stage platform trial assessing potential disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson’s disease. This requires working with clinical colleagues, to facilitate smooth and integrated patient pathways between clinical and research activity, a willingness to work flexibly in a range of care settings is required.
The trial will be delivered on a national scale, across approximately 40 UK sites with a 3-4 year recruitment period and 3 year treatment duration. EJS ACT-PD will be co-led by UCL and Newcastle University and coordinated by MRC CTU.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will have responsibility for the recruitment of eligible participants to EJS ACT-PD, including actioning localised EDI strategies where relevant to encourage diverse participation from under-served groups. The post-holder will also be responsible for the associated data collection for participant study visits at their site, including administration of PD rater-scales (e.g., MDS-UPDRS).
It is expected that the post-holder will provide trial delivery support for less experienced sites within their region where required to improve regional PD research infrastructure.
The post holder will work within the department of Neurology Medicine, which is part of the wider Academic Neurosciences Directorate. The Clinical Research Matron will provide research leadership, management, and an educational framework for the post holder with the support of the Clinical Research Facility.
All work undertaken within neurology is carried out to the highest possible standards and adheres to Research Governance and the Regulatory Framework.
Sheffield has been working hard to increase research activity, and the directorate has worked closely with the department of Neurosciences and the Biomedical Research Centre to enhance opportunities for participants and staff to engage with research.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The Biomedical Research Centre; Sheffield has recently been awarded NIHR funding to establish a Neurosciences BRC, which will focus on the key research areas of Neuro-inflammation, Cerebrovascular Neurology and Neurodegeneration. The BRC will work in partnership with Sheffield’s CRF to ensure the safe delivery of its early phase experimental medicine trials. The post holder will work on a portfolio of studies on neuromuscular (PD) disorders.
The Sheffield NIHR Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is a joint venture between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The CRF is a specially equipped unit, devoted to ensuring that research is conducted to the highest standards and providing research participants with excellent quality of care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 5 years until 31st August 2030 due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN Level one
- NMC registered
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
- Extensive evidence of continuous professional development Including post graduate qualifications and/ or academic research qualifications
- First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working with people with Parkinson’s in either a clinical or research capacity
- Good IT skills; competent in standard PC packages (i.e. Microsoft Office or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Specialist training relevant to role: Up to date Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training
- Experience of delivering early phase research studies
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of the local and national strategic context of research in the NHS
- Demonstrate ability to take on new skills in line with trial development
- Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis and with groups.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills – ability to form positive relationships at all levels
- Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet deadlines.
- Persuasion and influencing skills – ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Integrity - Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference.
- Integrity - Possesses a straight talking and honest, whilst being diplomatic, communication style.
- Ownership - Loves being in charge/control and takes full responsibility for the running of their clinical area.
- Ownership - Driven to get things done to ensure that both they and their team achieve.
- Ownership - Sets very high standards for themselves, their team and clinical area.
- Delivery - Love to be in control and on top of everything that is going on in their clinical area.
- Delivery - Likes to be ‘hands on’ in the delivery of patient care in their department.
- Delivery - Thrives on having lots going on and rise to the challenge of constantly switching between different activities and issues.
- Delivery - Possesses a ‘can do’ approach to problems and will keep going when things are tough.
- Relating -Gets a buzz out of developing others and takes great satisfaction from seeing their staff achieve and progress.
- Relating -Pick up on other people’s needs sensing when something is wrong.
- Relating -Good at explaining things in simple and straightforward ways that others find easy to understand.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Pyecroft-Oxley
- Job title
- Trust research Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2711554
- Additional information
Professor Oliver Bandmann
Consultant Neurologist
Email: [email protected]
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