Research Delivery Facilitator - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has research as a key objective and aims to become a leading research centre.

The post of Research Delivery Facilitator is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to support the Trust in achieving this goal.


The post holder will be engaged in the delivery of the research portfolio within C&WFT through active engagement with the Trust's research office and reporting to the Trust's R&D Operations Manager.

The post holder will ensure that all relevant study activities are accomplished effectively in line with LCRN performance metrics and NIHR high level objectives and will play a key role in assisting the Trust to

deliver an effective and efficient service to its research partners in the set up and approval of externally sponsored research studies.

This will include being responsible for co-ordinating the completion of feasibility assessments by researchers for externally sponsored studies and also
completing research governance checks.


The post holder must be fully engaged in the mission of the LCRN encouraging adoption to the portfolio and accomplishment of high level objectives.


We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.

Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.


In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains.

The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate.

We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Research Set Up, Initiation and Delivery

  • To keep up to date with local, national and international guidance and legislation relating to clinical trials and health research, and to disseminate these requirements to clinicians, researchers and managers within the Trust.
  • To act as the first point of contact for researchers undertaking projects at the Trust. To communicate clearly and sensitively with researchers to advise them of any changes or further information required, taking into account study complexity and the overall research awareness of the researcher.
  • To undertake a proportionate, pragmatic and consistent NHS review of submissions, ensuring prompt, efficient and timely approval times. This will require complex indepth scrutiny and analysis of study documentation to assess and manage the implications for the Trust in terms of resource, impact and risks. Furthermore, this will include managing governance systems to ensure research meets necessary requirements (e.g. sponsorship, peer review, honorary contracts, letters of access, study agreements, external regulatory approval e.g. MHRA and ethics).
  • To meet with the RDOM on a regular (currently weekly) basis to assess progress on all research studies under review.
  • To assist researchers in undertaking robust feasibility assessments.
  • To ensure that researchers are able to meet all internal and external benchmarks relating to set up, initiation and delivery of research and that studies are ready to recruit the first participant promptly (including, but not limited to the creation of site files, working files, Case Report Forms and localised documentation).
  • To ensure that researchers are aware of how to demonstrate Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in their study, and to assist researchers in booking on to GCP training courses.
  • To advise and assist the RDOM, and to independently lead on, ad hoc service improvement projects pertaining to systems underpinning research.
  • To ensure proposed and active research projects are entered correctly onto the current local research database and maintaining electronic and paper copies of information about research activity ensuring accuracy and compliance with local and national standards.
  • To ensure researchers are made fully aware of Trust wide policies and procedures for research governance, set up, initiation, delivery and ongoing review.
  • Assist with the annual monitoring of all studies by liaising with researchers and populating and
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