Research Midwife

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to appoint a dynamic, self-driven research midwife to join a well-established successful Innovation, Research and Development department.
Candidates should be registered midwifes with substantial post-registration experience. A minimum of 18 months post registration experience is preferred for the smooth transition into this post.

Delivering commercial and academic clinical trials across Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, working with a team of professionals with a wide range of responsibilities.
Candidates will need to possess excellent communication skills with the ability to manage and prioritise allocated workload.
Knowledge in research design methods and understanding of analytical processes is desirable.
You will be a team player with the competence to work independently across the trust, establishing networks of communication in across teams and support services.
This position is predominantly a clinical role conducting a variety of clinical trials necessitating a high level of organisational skills including detailed high quality data in accordance to Good clinical practice (GCP).
Knowledge in research is desirable, we will support your learning through competency based assessment with the objective that you will become an experienced, autonomously practicing research midwife.
With supervision the candidate will be able to support trial/study set up, ensuring the smooth planning and running of clinical trials in accordance with ICH GCP, standard operating procedures, clinical trials protocols, and Trust policies.
Recruit patients to both commercially and academically sponsored clinical trials within the trust. Monitor those patients during the period of trial.
Provide accurate data management and reporting of safety findings in accordance to GCP, Health Research Authority (HRA), Research Ethics Committee (REC) and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) standards.
Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, manage accurate and comprehensive records of data derived from the research studies.
Safeguards the wellbeing of the patients and all is conducted within ICH Good Clinical Practice Guidelines for Research.
Establish good lines of communication with local speciality teams and support services and external research teams within the Research delivery Network and external stakeholders (commercial/industry partners).
Conduct all research related training to ensure delivery of high quality safe research.
Excellent time management skills and possess the ability to manage and prioritise allocated workload.
Keyboard and general IT experience is required to support data management.
It is expected you will be working towards achieving all relevant research midwife competencies within 12-24 months.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.