• The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination and management of an agreed clinical research portfolio at St George's Hospital.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the research teams and wider multidisciplinary team in the management of their own caseload of clinical trials patients and be accountable for the achievement of local and national targets in relation to the service.
• Responsibilities include: facilitating study set-up identifying suitable patients through the process of MDT's/screening notes collecting data interviewing supporting and monitoring patients and data entry.
• The post holder will also be expected to have sufficient skills to enable patients to make informed choices concerning their involvement in clinical trials by providing advice and information and acting as the patients' advocate.
• The post holder must also be willing to move to different clinical specialties within the remit of their qualifications and where the need to do so is identified.

• Please note this is a Maternity Cover (until 31-July-2024) contract.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a role model for excellence in clinical research
• Work autonomously to manage his/her caseload of patients, whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure service delivery.
• Identify suitable patients for entry into clinical trials by attending out-patient clinics (screening notes/clinician referral) and Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meetings.
• Ensure patients are fully informed prior to entry in to any clinical trial programme, acting as a guide and advocate to the patient throughout the complex decision making process.
• Participate in the informed consent process ensuring adherence to the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
• Evaluate patient eligibility and safe entry to clinical trials, co-ordinating investigations, obtaining results and arranging appropriate appointments according to trial protocol requirements.
• Register/ randomise patients into clinical trial protocol
• Act as an on-going resource and support to patients and their carers, regarding practical aspects of clinical trial participation.
• Recognise the complex emotional/psychological needs of patients entering a clinical trial and provide an appropriate level of support.
• Collect any blood samples as required, strictly adhering to the clinical trial protocol and ensuring safe handling and appropriate storage of specimens.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.

The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Clearly able to demonstrate Trust values
• Good communication skills

Other

Essential

• Reliable

Desirable

• Experience of using excel spreadsheets
• Experience of data entry and extraction e.g. electronic data collection tools

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's University Hospitals NHS Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT

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