Trial Management Support Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

UE05:
£25,742 to £29,605 pro rata

CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute

Contract type:
Full time (35 Hours per week) or Part time (21 hours per week) would be considered

Fixed Term for 2 years - available from January 2024 and 2 year contract

Number of posts 2

Location:
Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, early 2024
The Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for an enthusiastic Trial management Support Officer

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit (ECTU).

Based within the Usher Institute and the University Of Edinburgh School Of Medicine, ECTU is a close collaboration between the clinical academic community affiliated to the University and NHS Lothian.

ECTU supports the development and delivery of research proposals which answer important questions that will have a bearing on treatment and service delivery within the NHS.

ECTU's aim is to ensure the delivery of high quality regulated and non-regulated randomised controlled trials.

This post will involve working across a variety of studies and you will join an experienced, diverse team within an established trials unit.

You will be responsible for supporting the trial managers throughout the duration of the trial. Tasks will include setting up recruiting sites, tracking study progress, maintaining trial documentation and dealing with queries. You will have at least one years' experience in clinical trials or in a research co-ordination environment.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly as part of a team demonstrating excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, (specifically excellent attention to detail).
Experience /knowledge of working to the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Proven experience of creating, processing, updating and version control of documents.
Experience of planning, organising meeting and taking meeting minutes.
Proven experience of managing own time & efficiently prioritising and managing own workload.

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Please include your CV and a supporting statement with clearly details (with examples) of how you meet the specific knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more.

Access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Work with us | Usher Institute _- where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world. _**Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.

Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.