Research Nurse

Job overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for a detailed job description for the role.

Main duties of the job

Do you want to make a difference? Are you looking for an exciting, rewarding career pathway?  We have a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic Band 5 Nurse with the appropriate skills and registration to join our Research Team. This post offers the chance to maintain and develop your clinical competences alongside developing research delivery skills.

This vacancy is a full-time post within the Early Phase Oncology Team and is a nurse only post due to the duties required to fulfil the vacancy needs. We run a 24/7 service with the onsite hours dictated by the study protocol and patient need but in the main, the work is office hours Monday to Friday.

We have a team of around 300 Research Nurses, AHPs, Midwives and Clinical Trials Assistants, working together across the Trust, within our award-winning teams to bring exciting research opportunities to UHS for the benefit of our patients and for the future of healthcare. The research Team is composed of multidisciplinary researchers from hospital and University backgrounds all striving to ensure that research is considered a realistic treatment option for all eligible patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Band 5 Research Nurse you will provide specialist research and clinical care to our participants within the scope of your education and training.  You will take on the responsibility for managing and coordinating delegated research studies; getting involved with study set up, patient scheduling, booking assessments, carrying out patient visits, administering new novel treatments, data collection and data entry and facilitating communication with the patient and clinical team.  You will be guided and mentored by our experienced senior research nurses to develop within your role providing gold standard care through the delivery of new and novel treatments. You will also provide clinical supervision to unregistered staff and students once you are comfortable within the role.

The expectation is to provide high standard, research-based care to our patients whilst following the guidelines set out within the NMC, GCP and the Trust which ensures patient safety and data integrity.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Nurse who is organised, self-motivated, compassionate and who aspires to further their career within clinical research.  You will have oncology experience and ideally have experience of clinical research, although this is not essential for the role. Full research training will be given, via our excellent induction and ongoing educational programme.  Team-working skills and flexibility will be required to ensure the success of this post.  You will be delivering complex studies and therefore need to have an excellent level of written and verbal communication, backed up with excellent IT proficiency.  You will work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, implementing studies to translate scientific discoveries into improved patient outcomes.

THIS IS A PATIENT FACING, HANDS ON CLINICAL ROLE

We are interested in applicants with good clinical experience, a keen willingness to learn and natural compassion. If you are interested in this research role and you are not sure if you have the relevant skills or background, please do get in touch with us to discuss further.