Senior Research Nurse and Memory Clinic Team Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Management and Leadership

1. To provide management support to our clinic team including research nurses, research psychologists and medical secretaries and to act as an important point of contact for the team.

2. To be an active member of the Senior Leadership Team, attending regular meetings and presenting the views and activities of the memory services and research within a strategic context.

3. Liaison with a wide variety of people across different levels of seniority and areas of expertise, for example clinical and academic staff, professional bodies, charities, pharmaceutical companies in a confident, professional and friendly manner.

Management of memory services

1. Joint responsibility for the operational running and management of memory clinics to deliver high quality and effective cognitive assessment services. Ensuring good links to other ReMind UK activities.

2. The postholder will oversee the day-to-day management of our memory services including waiting lists, stats reporting, linking into other external services such as AWP and Alzheimers society.

3. To be responsible for coordinating care for a small number of service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads, where appropriate.

4. To lead, in partnership with the Research and Medical Director, to ensure the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision processes. Jointly responsible for Memory Clinic CQC compliance, ensuring relevant paperwork is in place and up to date.

5. To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment and activity.

6. Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service.

7. To support the Research and Medical Director in developing systems and processes for the effective management and monitoring of the caseload, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, and service users and carers receive the appropriate level of service.

8. To work with the Research and Medical Director to ensure focus on continual improvements to the service in line with organisational goals.

9. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

10. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

Research engagement

1. To work with the clinical team to deliver high quality and effective research activities.

2. To engage and support Research Nurses with clinical trial studies as and when appropriate

Clinical Research

As a Senior Research Nurse, you will act as line manager for the Research Nurses and play a key role in the provision of effective nursing services for optimal study delivery. You will be responsible for acting as Study Coordinator on an agreed number of trials and will be closely involved from clinical start-up at the Site Initiation Visit right through to close-out. You will be trained to follow ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines. You will work closely with the principal investigator and collegiately with the wider study team. Study responsibilities include:

• Supporting and co-ordinating study visits
• Monitoring patients and volunteers during a study
• Developing a good relationship with the Sponsor Companys clinical research staff regarding the day to day running of the studies and assisting them at their monitoring visits
• Supporting patient and volunteer recruitment
• Maintaining accurate data collection, records and medication accountability
• Working with the team to carry out all study assessments according to the research protocol
• Centrifuging blood specimens and organising their transport and storage
• Performing electrocardiograms
• Liaising with laboratories and radiology departments
• Ensuring that study related equipment and supplies are ordered in a timely fashion, well maintained and calibrated when appropriate
• Administering medication under the directions of a doctor
• Attending site initiation and investigator meeting. This may require foreign travel.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Adult or Mental Health Nurse with at least 8 years post registration experience
• Qualified to carry out venepuncture
• Qualified to cannulate and administer intravenous fluids

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice and its application to own practice and behaviour
• Demonstrated effective nursing practice in all registered nurse procedures
• Proven empathetic and caring approach to patients and relatives, and assured patient confidentiality, dignity and respect at all times
• Ability to prioritise busy workload and to work to support your team.
• Demonstrated awareness and importance of flexibility and working as part of a team
• Commitment to professional development
• Ability to help educate and train others
• Strong verbal and written communication across different audiences, eg staff, patients and relatives
• Excellent ability to accurately and clearly document results, observations, decisions and actions with attention to detail
• Good IT and digital skills, with use of patient CRM.

Desirable

• Higher level degree
• Up-to-date Good Clinical Practice training
• A current driving licence and the availability of a car insured for business use

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-qualifying clinical experience obtained in a variety of settings, at AfC band six or equivalent
• Experience of managing within a clinical setting.
• Experience of working with people with dementia and with patients in the older age group
• Experience in carrying out cognitive testing and related assessments
• Experience of working in a memory clinic
• Experience in clinical trials and academic research

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

RICE

Address

The RICE Centre

Royal United Hospital

Bath

Somerset

BA1 3NG

Employer's website

https://rice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)