Band 6 Clinical Research Nurse/Practitioner - CRF

Job summary

• Responsible for the coordination and management of BioResource studies, including but not limited to D-CYPHR (children aged 0-15) and IBHO (Improving Black Health Outcomes).
• Collaborates effectively with research teams and the wider multidisciplinary team to manage a personal caseload of clinical trial participants, ensuring compliance with both local and national performance targets.
• Key duties include study setup facilitation, patient identification through MDTs and clinical note screening, data collection, venepuncture, laboratory support for blood sample processing, patient interviews, ongoing monitoring, and accurate data entry.
• Provides patients with clear, evidence-based information to support informed decision-making regarding trial participation, while acting as a dedicated patient advocate throughout the research process.
• Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability by working across various clinical specialties, in alignment with professional qualifications and service needs.

Main duties of the job

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for two full time Clinical Research Practitioner/Nurse to join our friendly Team.
• The Clinical Research Facility (CRF) position holder will play a key role in the delivery of clinical research at St. George's Hospital, developing and creating robust systems and processes to enable clinical research to run smoothly, efficiently and whilst ensuring the highest of standards are maintained.
• This role involves liaison with Principal Investigators and other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality data collection and clinical care, with a commitment to participant safety and welfare. The post holder will be expected to advocate for patients and empower them to make informed choices concerning their involvement in clinical research studies by providing advice and information.
• The post holder will work with a high level of autonomy, taking delegated responsibility from clinicians for clinical decision making, and will work closely with investigators and multidisciplinary staff.
• We are very keen to meet potential applicants and would be very happy to facilitate informal visits or answer enquiries regarding the post.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for multiple specialties. The local population is lively and multicultural.