This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

The TVRA is an alliance between the Research & Development Departments from North Tees & Hartlepool NHS FT and South Tees Hospitals NHS FT.

The post holder will support the development of improved performance and research delivery across the constituent trusts in the TVRA. They will promote quality improvement across all operations in the TVRA and lead on a range of programmes addressing performance and service issues and escalating issues for strategic prioritisation where required.

They will provide daily operational management of the Tees Valley Research Alliance (TVRA). This involves responsibility for oversight of the TVRA across both constituent trusts to ensure progression of the service against its strategic objectives and operational plans. They will be responsible for ensuring robust operational processes are in place and regularly reviewed and will report progress against key TVRA, regional and national Performance Indicators and objectives to the TVRA Executive and TVRA Senior Management team.

Main duties of the job

They will be the TVRA managerial point of contact for research teams and development within our Clinical Support services. They will support teams within these areas to grow research capacity, training and skills within the workforce in addition to ensuring appropriate levels of support for research trials delivery.

They will provide innovative and effective leadership for the research workforce in Clinical Support Services and directly line manage the research staff within the Pathology Trials Team and the Innovation Hub Co-ordinator.

The post will be based at James Cook University Hospital but the post holder will be required to have a regular visible and active presence in each constituent Trust

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of research staffing, infrastructure and funding models
• Knowledge of local and national research performance targets
• Knowledge of current national systems and structures for the approval, management and monitoring of clinical research in the NHS
• Knowledge of health service management principles
• Ability to critically analyse complex data systems and processes.

Desirable

• Has the experience in presenting at local / national / international conferences
• Has completed a piece of independent research

Qualifications

Essential

• Holds a relevant undergraduate degree qualification
• Holds or working towards a Masters qualification in research or management related discipline or other equivalent experience
• Current and valid Good Clinical Practice Training (GCP)
• Evidence of continuous professional development.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working within a research management or governance environment
• Project management experience.
• Experience of NHS and research budgetary management.
• Ability to produce reports for senior level reporting and analyse data.

Desirable

• Experience of developing and providing research related training
• Experience of previous change management or service development including development and implementation of policies, procedures and SOPs

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

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