The Opportunity

If you want to expand your nursing career options outside the NHS, then, why not explore a career as our next Clinical Research Nurse, making a direct impact on patient care by contributing to the development of new medical treatments.

Starting Salary: £40,000 (negotiable based on experience)
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week). Part-time opportunities are available.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join an enthusiastic team of Clinical Research Nurses. The clinical team manage a variety of simple and complex national and global clinical trials. The successful candidates will have professional responsibility to coordinate specific research studies providing care and study related treatment to all participants. The post holder is also expected to act as an associate nurse for other trials within the unit under guidance from the Principal Investigator (PI).

On a normal day, you will:

• Utilise your skills, knowledge, nursing diagnosis, and clinical judgement in order to provide a high standard of care for participants in clinical trials and respond to emergency situations based upon nursing standards.
• Utilise your nursing assessment skills to observe participant general well-being and potential adverse events.
• Document adverse events and take appropriate action as needed.
• Educate, explain and inform participants of study procedures.
• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments and collect detailed medical histories in compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the study protocol.
• Administer investigational product to participants according to the protocol and applicable regulations.
• Perform study related activities such as vital signs, ECGs, venepuncture, spirometry etc.
• Collect and process biological samples according to the study protocol and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Record data obtained in a timely, error free manner according to the protocol and SOP, transcribing source data onto the Case Report Form (CRF).