Specialist Research Nurse

at  Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Clinical/Professional Maintain a high visible presence within the clinical area, ensuring that patients, visitors, healthcare staff and the multidisciplinary team have access to senior staff at all times. Act as a professional role model and leader, demonstrate clinical skills, promote clinical excellence and ensure an optimum standard of nursing care is delivered to all patients/research participants. Provide professional nursing leadership to staff within sphere of clinical responsibility. Lead and motivate staff by giving clear direction and setting achievable objectives through APDR process.
Promote and set high standards of nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust policies, protocols and guidelines. Lead and deliver a high standard of evidence based nursing care through the assessment, planning, and evaluating of individual patients needs based on evidence. Initiate, lead and co-ordinate care in the clinical area for a specified groups of patients. Recognise and respond to a change in patient status undertaking first line interventions within scope of practice and refer on to the appropriate clinician as required.
Actively promote and lead others in safe and effective working practices to prevent harm to the patients within your care, and take part in safety audits and monitoring to maintain high quality standards. Communicate and work with the multidisciplinary team to improve quality of care, and informed clinical decisions. Promote innovation, educate, and share any new ideas to improve patient care. Lead the coordination of patient care and trial procedures for a clinical area of practice once deemed competent to do so.
Liaise, report and document any relevant nursing/patient needs with other health care professionals with on-going responsibility for patient care, communicating changes as they occur. Ensure that accurate and timely patient records are maintained by you and your team. Implement and lead others in implementing the Trust Values, ensuring they are embedded into everyday practice and evaluate their impact on the patients experience. Engage and interact with carers/family encouraging them to be actively involved in patients involvement in research.
Ensure concerns raised by patients and their families are escalated and dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, in line with trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation, supporting junior colleagues in this process. Maintain and continually develop in-depth specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to the individual clinical speciality. Achieve competence in the use of medical devices/equipment by accessing training and maintain these. Promote health education within the clinical area and advise patient, family, and others in health promotion issues, making every contact count.
Promote the health and well-being of staff, patients and their carers. Maintain links with other Specialist Research Nurses, Research Nurses, Clinical Trial Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists, to share knowledge and act as a mutual support. Management and Leadership Take responsibility for the organisation and management of your specialist research portfolio. Have an overall view of the intensity of workload and the experience of the staff, and act to utilise the skill mix on duty to ensure cover achieves a high standard of research and clinical care.
Report, escalate, manage and investigate patient safety events and clinical emergencies as detailed in Trust-wide and local research protocols and procedures. Be proactive in the prevention and management of complaints (formal and those via Patient Advice and Liaison Service) and when they occur investigate and respond in a timely manner. Lead and participate in quality monitoring and the development of improvements, working alongside your team to implement these into practice. Comply and promote compliance with Trust policies and guidelines e.g.
Health and Safety, Clinical Risk and Infection Control. Implement the nursing strategy by settling clear achievable objectives for staff, who the post holder manages, into annual performance and development reviews and evaluate performance. Take appropriate action to address unexpected changes and situations, informing the Senior Research Team or other if unable to resolve. Actively contribute to achieving the clinical governance goals/targets set by the trust and department and comply with reporting schedules for monitoring and reporting.
As a team leader, demonstrate expertise and share in-depth specialist knowledge and skills to all team members to develop clinical and professional nursing practice. Take responsibility for the management of staff performance and attendance in line with trust policies. Promote the health and well-being of staff, patients and their carers. Contribute to the clinical area non-pay budgets to ensuring good housekeeping and economic use of resources.
Delegate duties and tasks as appropriate to team members and evaluate the outcomes. Demonstrate an awareness of and compliance with health and safety regulations/procedures that apply to staff, patients, and visitors within Trust premises. Work closely with partners i.e. Engie, resolving any issues regarding cleanliness, provision of food and maintenance of the environment.
Ensure staff are aware how to escalate when issues cannot be resolved. With the Senior team, look at succession planning for any hard to recruit posts and use Talent Management skills to identify key staff for further development. Research and Education Research Lead, coordinate and deliver Clinical Trial activity within Portsmouth Hospitals. Review of Trial protocols and assess their clinical and practical implications (including feasibility and risk) to patients.
Identify, screen and assess the suitability of local patients to take part in Clinical Trials, in accordance with specified inclusion/exclusion criteria. Provide specialist information to patients about taking part in Clinical Trials, including the risks and benefits of participation in specific protocols. Gain informed consent from participants and educate, develop competency and oversee junior colleagues in the consent process. Ensure that Trial-specific investigations and sampling are undertaken as required by the protocol in order to establish the eligibility of patients and to ensure their safe entry into Trials Act as a contact for Clinical Trial patients and set standards of care for patients in Clinical Trials, using a patient focused approach.
Promote research at ward level, encouraging staff to support research in order to aid recruitment, embedding research into clinical care. Provide expert knowledge and support to Principal Investigators (PIs) in delivering timely, safe, and quality Research Trials, educating and developing new PIs within the clinical and research team. Act as Principal Investigator for appropriate trials, ensuring oversight of the safe and effective delivery of the trial. Take an active part in the process of trial development, contributing to the writing of protocols, Case Report Forms and patient facing documents, supporting the Chief/Principle Investigator and/or the department Clinical Research Lead in submitting applications for NHS, Regulatory, Ethics and Governance permissions to conduct Clinical Trials within the Trust.
Liaise with other clinical departments, supporting departments and external partners to maximise the potential of trials recruiting to time and target. Maintain and oversee your team in accurate documentation in an auditable format, and accurately record data as required by each Trial and to work to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) for Clinical Trials activity. Monitor the local performance of Trials activity and the use of resources when carrying out trial protocols, prescribing and implementing care and treatments in accordance with Trial protocols. Inform the Clinical Research Lead and trial Principal Investigator as well as the Trust research Department of deviations from the trial budget and initiate action plans to maintain financial control.
Use and maintain competence in the use of IT systems to organise, record, report and monitor Trials activities. Identify barriers to recruitment and performance, communicating these to the Senior colleagues, the MDT and wider research team. Ensure that all activities undertaken by you, the research and clinical team involved in research activity meet the standards set out in the Principles of Good Clinical Practice and UK Policy Framework for Health & social Care Research and adhere to all applicable Regulatory requirements (e.g. Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations) Demonstrate a commitment to evidence based practice, highlight areas for change, initiate and evaluate evidence, managing change to improve and develop patient care.
Education Participate fully in the Appraisal and Development Review Process. Ensure staff under the post holders leadership have an annual personal development review and set achievable objectives. Feed agreed development opportunities into the department training plan. Act as a mentor and coach, supervise and assess student nurses, support staff and junior team members including bank and agency staff.
Provide a positive learning environment creating a culture for learning and development that will sustain person-centred safe and effective care. Encourage team openness so that an evidence based approach is utilised and applied to nursing care. Commit to and encourage a culture where students receive quality placements supported by mentorship and teaching from the multi-professional team

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