Senior Research Nurse - Research and Development

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Senior Nurse - Research & Development who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

As Senior Research Nurse, the post holder will be responsible for delegated leadership and management of a team of nurses/AHPs.

The role will involve setting up and recruiting patients to a variety of high quality research studies for medical and surgical specialties, including commercially sponsored studies.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect and improve.We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a well supported and research delivery staff. You will be joining a Trust that sees research as an essential part of everyday activity together with the strategy to enhance patient experience and outcomes through research and innovation.

The post holder will take responsibility for the co - ordination and management of a clinical research portfolio, collaborating with key personnel throughout the NIHR Clinical Research Network/ENHT to ensure continued care and support for patients involved in clinical trials.

Responsible for the safe administration of experimental drugs and for monitoring the expected and unexpected side effects of drugs and other treatment modalities.

The post holder will be expected to have sufficient skills to enable patients to make informed choices concerning their involvement in the clinical trials by providing advice and information and acting as the patients advocate.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHSTrust,we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

• Hertford County, Hertford

• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.We continue to undergo significanttransformationand our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.This means that any employee is entitled toseekto work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course,have tobe made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Employer's website

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

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