Early Phase Team Lead

Job responsibilities

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Communicate competently complex information about specific clinical trials and their consequences, to patients and carers ensuring they have a good understanding of treatment options, thereby ensuring high standards of informed consent.

To act as the key worker for patients in your direct care for the duration of active involvement in a clinical trial, ensuring that all patients, carers and appropriate community colleagues are well informed about their disease and its management, providing appropriate and timely information.

Work in partnership with clinical investigators with all aspects of a clinical trial, including: trial set up, trial documentation, data collection, administration and patient recruitment and treatment coordination.

Registered general nurse / practitioner with evidence of highly developed knowledge in oncology and clinical research to include well developed leadership and managerial skills.

Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience or qualification.

Takes personal responsibility for lifelong learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and knowledge and skills framework, actively engaging with learning and development opportunities in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.

Work autonomously to manage a large caseload of patients acting as a professional nurse in ensuring a duty of care to the patient and their families.

To be able to provide an expert opinion on the creation and coordination of the disease specific portfolio in collaboration with the MDT.

Judgements on information giving for conflicting studies.

Assessing the feasibility of running a trial in VUNHST and CVUHB.

Participate in service reviews in order to instigate and manage change and service improvement within a complex department.

Influence and develop policy and clinical guidelines internally and externally.

Lead on the contribution to the early phase service development, ensuring pursuit of excellence in care for trials patients.

Work with the R&D Delivery Manager, and RD& I finance Manager in assessing the financial impact to the Trust and CVUHB of commercial and non-commercial trials.

Financial Initiative Deal with financial negotiations and contractual agreements with pharmaceutical companies when setting up a clinical trial.

Identify and discuss with individual departments the physical resource implications.

Mentor new research staff and provide training in own discipline and that of other Clinical Trials Unit posts of Band 6 and below as required.

Managing and supervising an early phase team. Implementing annual PADRs

Ensure continued effective registration with the NMC and be aware of NMC Code of Professional Conduct. They must be accountable for their own practice. Work within the NMC Scope of Professional Practice and ensure competency to undertake duties as allocated.

To be responsible for initiating and coordinating a range of UK, European and World Wide cancer trials for VUNHST and CVUHB as required, in collaboration with the relevant multi-disciplinary research teams.

To ensure that as an individual and as a team lead a quality service is delivered maintaining safety of the patient, and working to WG national research KPI`s.

Request trial related radiological procedures

Clinical assessment of patient.

Use of ECGs Blood pressure machines and other equipment required to monitor the patient.

Knowledge of trial SACT.

The post holder will be required to work with a number of different staff across research from Principal Investigators, research nurses, research officers , data management and Research Facilitation Officers .

There will also be close liaison with BNT research teams and Cardiff Cancer Research Partnership and late phase colleagues to ensure smooth and efficient working of the overall research portfolio.

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• 1st level registered nurse or professional health care equivalent.
• Masters degree or equivalent experience or qualification.
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Working knowledge of G.C.P and its application in the NHS research environment,

Desirable

• Clinical Research Qualification.
• Teaching qualification
• ECDL

Experience

Essential

• Experience as a specialist nurse.
• Experience of caring for patients within the research setting.

Desirable

• Experience of caring for patients in the Cancer setting
• Phase 1 trial experience.
• Clinical skills in delivering novel early phase therapies.

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work on own initiative
• Excellent communication skills
• Computing skills
• Good patient advocate
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Counselling skills
• Knowledge of the research process and regulatory requirements - G.C.P and research governance.
• Knowledge of MS Office application and E-mail
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a Team
• Enthusiastic and motivated
• Attention to detail

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel, in the course of duties
• Flexible approach to working hours according to service needs

Desirable

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).