Clinical Trials Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Research and Development Department is looking for a full time (37.5 hours) Clinical trials Assistant to enhance the delivery of clinical research to ensure the delivery of the Trust research strategy.

On a daily basis you will be responsible for all aspects of the research process including: assessing patient suitability for trials; screening and recruiting patients; obtaining informed consent, performing study procedures and managing study data.

A key aspect of this role is supporting the patient and their family throughout the above research process.

The key elements of our R&D strategy include: to increase the number of UK CRN portfolio and commercial studies, increase patient participation in clinical studies and ensure that studies recruit to time and target.

You will work under the management of the Senior Research Nurse and Lead Research Nurse, but will need to have excellent organisational skills.

It is also essential that you can plan and prioritise your workload in order to meet performance targets and deadlines.

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

The Clinical Trials Assistant will provide a good standard of care, working as member of the multidisciplinary team to contribute to and support research based practice.

Under the direct supervision of Research Nurses, the research assistant will undertake all aspects of care for patients in clinical research studies such as:

Obtaining informed consent for nonCTIMP studies
Conducting baseline and follow up visits as per study protocol
Collecting clinical and nonclinical data as per study protocol

Undertaking clinical procedures such as vital signs and height and weight

Collecting research samples: willing to become proficient in phlebotomy,processing, labelling and storage of research samples

Providing on-going support to patients and volunteers with regards to their participation

Administrative Duties

Under supervision of the Research Nurses and Midwives, the Clinical Trials Assistant will provide support for administrative elements of research studies such as:
Maintaining investigator site files and working files
Assisting with transfer of source data into electronic data capture system's
Assisting with management of study amendments
Locating and tracking of medical records
Assisting with audit preparation
Assisting with the filing of research material such as laboratory and imaging reporting
Correct storage of research consumables including monitoring use by dates and reducing excess storage
Procurement of supplies

Education and Development Duties

The Clinical Trials Assistant is responsible for:
Attending induction training
Attending mandatory training and ensuring updates are undertaken as required
Attending research specific training (such as GCP)

Attending and contributing to team meetings and learning sessions such as scenario based learning

Maintaining research training log and research CV
Ensuring PDR objectives are met as required

Communication

The Clinical Trials Assistant is responsible for:

Ensuring communication is used effectively in the interests of patient care, including the use of clinical incident reporting if necessary
Assisting with research events such as patient/public campaigns
Demonstrating politeness, courtesy, and sensitivity in dealing with patients/clients, visitors/relatives and colleagues, maintaining good customer relations and recognising individuality and rights for each patient in line with Trust values.