Research Manager

at  Wye Valley NHS Trust

The purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive research management support to Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post holder will collaborate with the Trust Associate Chief Medical Officer for Research and Development to develop, manage and implement the Wye Valley NHS Trust research strategy.
This will include enabling the department to meet its objectives through effective performance, quality, and financial management. The post holder will oversee the Research Management function, ensuring it is appropriately resourced and provide approval to the Assess, Arrange and Confirm Research Processes, Research Contracts and other research management activities.
To effectively oversee the functions of the research office, focus on establishing robust processes are to ensure an efficient set up, support researchers and provide an excellent service.
Ensure applications for capability and capacity and amendments are processed in accordance with current national guidance and regulations including those that are of the Health Research Authority (HRA), ensuring quality assurance and adherence to timeframes.
Oversee the contracting process, ensuring facilitators appropriately liaise with sponsors as required, and authorising these to go to signatory stage.
Contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust Research Strategy.

Provide an advice service to local researchers (including students) on all matters of NHS research (e.g. trial design, suitability, feasibility, capability). Support staff in developing research ideas, and the development of robust research questions.

• Effectively utilise strong influencing and negotiating skills to effectively communicate and exchange highly complex, sensitive information, to a variety of stakeholders in the context of research, overcoming barriers to understanding. This includes the ability to present complex information to internal and external large groups logically and concisely in both verbal and written forms acting as trust representative.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
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