Research Facilitator - Swindon, United Kingdom - Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Swindon, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is a key role within Great Western NHS Foundation Trust's Research & Innovation department.

This is an exciting opportunity to play an important part in facilitating the set-up of research projects across our Hospital's clinical specialties.

By providing co-ordination and administration support, the post-holder will help to ensure high quality clinical research governance at the Trust.

The post-holder will also be involved in the implementation and maintenance of Research Management systems, in order to support corporate research objectives.

The post holder will be responsible for updating and maintaining the research management system EDGE.

The post holder will also be responsible for the Trust approval process of all Research Amendments, and observational research studies.

This includes reviewing the study protocols to understand the impact the proposed activity has on the Trust in order to gain appropriate approvals, contract amendments and issue continued Capacity and Capability.

The post-holder will also invoice against research finance schedules, and develop and implement systems for teams to maintain up to date source information to allow for raising of invoices where appropriate.

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation. We will put our patients first, work together, aspire to provide the best service, and act with integrity.

The job description gives a detailed overview of the full responsibilities of this role.

To lead on the input of global and local study specific governance information on the EDGE Research management system across the whole Trust, ensuring completeness of data including it's maintenance to enable it to be an effective tool for registering and monitoring the progress of research projects and for statutory reporting processes.
Support the Research Manager with data audit to ensure the quality and accuracy of data held within the EDGE research management system.
To provide advice to researchers, of varying levels of seniority both internal and external to the Trust on how to fulfil Trust R&D policies about undertaking research. This includes supporting new and experienced researchers in understanding and complying with complex research governance requirements and ensuring stakeholders understand their responsibilities
The R&D Facilitator is expected to work unsupervised, and they will have an important role in the implementation and maintaining of Research Management systems to support corporate research

objectives.