Paediatric Clinical Research Nurse

Job overview

We have an exciting vacancy within Paediatric Allergy!  Due to expansion of our allergy research portfolio we are currently looking to recruit a Band 5 Children’s Clinical Research Nurse with a specialist interest in allergy to join our dynamic and friendly team to support on the delivery of high quality, holistic care to children and young people participating in research studies.

Main duties of the job

As a Children’s Research Nurse you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of a portfolio of research studies spanning a number of specialities in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team.  Working across commercial and portfolio adopted studies, you will work with the wider multidisciplinary team including the Principal Investigators and study sponsors to deliver a seamless research pathway for patients. You will be responsible for the holistic nursing care of children and young people and their families on existing clinical trials and contribute to the assessment and management of care pathways for patients participating in clinical studies.

This will involve screening, recruiting, educating and monitoring children and young people in studies as well the collation and documentation of study data. You will be trained to take informed consent for selected studies which do not involve a medicinal product. Previous research or allergy experience is not essential as a comprehensive training and development programme is available.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The primary duty of the post holders will be to provide specialist research and clinical care to participants enrolled in a portfolio of allergy research studies, alongside the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The clinical work will predominantly include participant visits on Seal Clinical Research Facility, but home visits will also occasionally be required.

If required, clinical research activities will extend to the support and conduct of other studies, including those on the NIHR-CRN portfolio. A proportion of the supported studies will be commercially sponsored. This will include a varied portfolio of research conducted both within the Clinical Research Facilities (CRFs) and on the wards, including: early phase translational clinical research, studies involving paediatric medicines and non-medicines research. This may involve travelling off site (e.g. for home visits), dependent upon the nature of the study. Study visits may need to be performed out of hours depending on the clinical need of the patients and nature of the study.

As a Children’s Research Nurse you will play a key role in assisting with the co-ordination of the research portfolio outlined above, in collaboration with other members of the MDT. As part of this, you will be responsible for the holistic nursing care of children and young people on existing clinical trials, monitoring them and ensure patient safety. You will contribute to the assessment and management of care pathways for patients and carers participating in clinical studies. This will involve recruitment, education and monitoring children in studies, undertaking accurate data collection and data entry into case report forms. Following training the post holders will perform paediatric allergy research procedures, including participant assessment, clinical examination, skin prick testing, oral food challenges and research record-keeping. Post holders will be trained to take informed consent for selected, non-CTIMP studies.

Training and opportunities to work with specific teams and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) will be provided to meet the special needs of the patients and an opportunity to develop into specialised fields.