Senior Research Nurse/ Seal CRF Unit Manager

at  Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, dynamic and clinically experienced children’s nurse to join the Evelina London paediatric allergy research team. This pivotal post will be part of the senior management team, acting as a key leader to a team of research professionals within the Seal Clinical Research Facility and will contribute to the achievement of the wider clinical and research related strategic objectives outlined by the Trust and Evelina London.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Band 6 or an established Band 7 as Clinical Research Facility Manager /Senior Clinical Research Nurse to lead, along with the Research Matron, a team with an extensive portfolio of NIHR non-commercial and commercial studies within the Paediatric Allergy research speciality.
The successful candidate will possess an excellent range of clinical skills, experience working with children, young people and families, particularly in the field of allergy and be able to demonstrate knowledge of clinical and research governance and experience of supporting clinical research, including the coordination of complex clinical trials, in the NHS setting. You will be responsible for management and leadership of the clinical research facility whilst acting as a knowledgeable resource for the wider research team. The post holder will support the development and implementation of strategies to increase clinical trial activity across the neonatal and paediatric research portfolio as well as develop extensive project management skills, working alongside the Research Matron, as the Evelina London moves to expand capacity within our purpose built Clinical Research Facility. As a skilled communicator, the successful candidate must also possess excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills, acting as an ambassador for promoting evidence based practice and research utilisation.
This post has been created as a consequence of sustained activity in paediatric research. The Trust is one of London’s largest recruiting paediatric sites contributing to NIHR Clinical Research Network (NIHR-CRN) supported studies. Currently, all major paediatric subspecialties, with the exception of hepatology and neurosurgery, are located in GSTFT and all areas are engaging in NIHR-CRN supported studies.
The paediatric clinical research team in which this post sits will (a) contribute to the ongoing expansion of research activity and capabilities within Evelina London Children’s Hospital. facility (b) facilitate greater paediatric access to the Wolf and Seal Clinical Research Facilities within ELCH, (c) support neonatal research occurring within the Centre for the Developing Brain and d) through working with the existing research nurse pool, promote research activity elsewhere within ELCH and within our partner organisations in Kings Healthcare Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.
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