East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Senior Research Nurse-Research & Development
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Job Title: Senior Research Nurse
We are recruiting two Senior Research Nurse to join the Research & Development Team, who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Here at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, our Research Nurses recruit patients to studies via multiple local DGH teams as well as from within the Cancer Centre.
As well as promoting studies to our referral hospitals and recruiting and coordinating the care of our trial participants, you will also administer some of the research drugs.
You may be required to take responsibility for the safe administration of experimental drugs and for monitoring the expected and unexpected side effects of drugs and other treatment modalities.
We are extremely committed to providing the best possible treatments for our patients and to progressing the field forward.
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137 per annum pro rata.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Responsibilities
The post holder will coordinate and manage a clinical research portfolio, working collaboratively with the NIHR Clinical Research Network/ENHT and multidisciplinary teams to support patients participating in clinical trials. Responsibilities include:
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- Screening and identifying eligible patients
- Maintaining detailed knowledge of study protocols
- Supporting recruitment in outpatient and inpatient settings
- Monitoring patient progress
- Collecting accurate clinical trial data
The role also involves acting as a key contact for patients and families by providing information, support, and advocacy to help patients make informed decisions regarding participation in research. Patients may also be referred to appropriate professionals or agencies where necessary.
In addition, the post holder will support research governance activities by:
- Assisting with ethics and approval submissions
- Contributing to protocol reviews
- Advising on specialised equipment and resources
- Ensuring ethical standards are maintained throughout the research process
The role includes responsibility for the safe administration of experimental treatments and monitoring patients for expected and unexpected side effects.
This position offers the opportunity to work within a supportive research delivery team in a Trust committed to research and innovation to improve patient care and outcomes.
About Us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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Our Hospitals
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Simona Linwood
- Job title: Acting Lead Research Nurse
- Email address: simona.linwood@nhs.net
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