Research Nurse

Job overview

Are you interested in supporting the development of evidence based care & new treatments in the speciality area of Haematology? Would you like to work at the forefront of medical and nursing practice through research?  If so, we would like to hear from you…

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Research & Development Directorate to join us as a Research Nurse working on our Cardiovascular portfolio.  You will be responsible for delivering and clinically managing your own portfolio of academic and commercial research studies  in Cardiology and Stroke and also providing research support to investigators.  This post will enable you to gain clinical knowledge and skills around a variety of specialist conditions through working closely with the consultants and specialist nurses and multi-disciplinary teams.

Main duties of the job

A central part of the role will be to ensure that you provide excellent research monitoring and care to patients who have consented to participate in research and that the research/clinical teams you work with are appropriately trained, supported and developed within their professional/research roles.  An important aspect of the role will be the maintenance of highly accurate and comprehensive records of data derived from the research studies.

Within this post you will develop processes and systems for maximising the recruitment of patients to academic and commercial  studies and will ensure that research patients/participants are monitored, supported and receive the highest level of research nursing care.  You will work across a range of studies including observational research, novel drug therapy and clinical interventions.  Under the direction of the Lead Consultants, Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses you will coordinate the clinical aspects of trials, participate in the recruitment and follow up of patients with responsibility for the assessment, planning and on-going care and safety of the research participants throughout their study journey.  The post holder will be required to work autonomously with supervision and guidance of the Team Leader and Senior Research Nurses.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Identity Checks
• Professional registration and qualification checks
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Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.