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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Study Set Up Manager

The closing date is 10 February 2026

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Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a Research Study Set Up Manager to join our dynamic Research and Innovation (R&I) Department, part of Corporate Services within the Trust. In this pivotal role, you will work closely with the R&I management team, Principal Investigators, research nurses, research teams, sponsors, and the Trust to establish and deliver the systems and processes required to support the efficient and timely identification, set up, and delivery of clinical trials.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders including investigators, nurses, sponsors, and Trust teams to ensure smooth trial initiation.

  • Develop and implement processes that enable efficient study set up and delivery.

  • Support clinical research teams with professional leadership, coordination, and monitoring.

  • Drive innovation by contributing to healthcare that is effective, efficient, and research-based.

The Research and Innovation Department provides professional leadership to research teams, ensuring safe and efficient coordination and monitoring. It plays a vital role in supporting the Trust's continued drive to deliver healthcare that is evidence-based, effective, and efficient.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted

09 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CEN-7596231

Job locations

Kings Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • An understanding of the importance of maintaining security and confidentiality of information
  • Clear oral and written communication
  • Ability to negotiate persuade and influence
  • Specialist knowledge of the regulatory framework around research

Desirable

  • Knowledge of study set up timelines
  • Contractual management
  • Finance & invoicing experience

Qualifications

Essential

  • Extensive experience in clinical trial study set up
  • Knowledge and understanding of government study set up metrics

Desirable

  • ICH-GCP training

Experience

Essential

  • Well-developed IT skills including the use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
  • Experienced user of databases and reporting tools and ability to update skills as necessary
  • Accurate and attentive to detail
  • Motivated and able and willing to learn
  • Excellent numerical and written skills
  • Able to produce reports and graphs for internal and external audit purposes as required
  • Well-developed communication skills
  • Ability to seek out information when not readily available
  • Experience working in a research environment
  • Experience in using research databases e.g. Edge

Desirable

  • Experience in training others
  • Minute-taking skills

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to work under own initiative and to prioritise and manage own workload
  • Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
  • Able to work independently and as part of a team.
  • To have a flexible approach to working with the conflicting demands of this post
Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • An understanding of the importance of maintaining security and confidentiality of information
  • Clear oral and written communication
  • Ability to negotiate persuade and influence
  • Specialist knowledge of the regulatory framework around research

Desirable

  • Knowledge of study set up timelines
  • Contractual management
  • Finance & invoicing experience

Qualifications

Essential

  • Extensive experience in clinical trial study set up
  • Knowledge and understanding of government study set up metrics

Desirable

  • ICH-GCP training

Experience

Essential

  • Well-developed IT skills including the use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
  • Experienced user of databases and reporting tools and ability to update skills as necessary
  • Accurate and attentive to detail
  • Motivated and able and willing to learn
  • Excellent numerical and written skills
  • Able to produce reports and graphs for internal and external audit purposes as required
  • Well-developed communication skills
  • Ability to seek out information when not readily available
  • Experience working in a research environment
  • Experience in using research databases e.g. Edge

Desirable

  • Experience in training others
  • Minute-taking skills

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to work under own initiative and to prioritise and manage own workload
  • Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
  • Able to work independently and as part of a team.
  • To have a flexible approach to working with the conflicting demands of this post

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kings Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kings Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Commercial Research Link Nurse

Sarah Shelton

sarah.shelton1@nhs.net

01623622515

Details

Date posted

09 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CEN-7596231

Job locations

Kings Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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