Band 6 Clinical Research Nurse - CRF

Job summary

The post holders will be key members of the CRF clinical research delivery team and provide research and clinical care for participants taking part in research studies within a range of therapeutic areas such as Infectious diseases, surgery, gastro, rare diseases among others. Previous clinical experience in these specialities will be of value to the applicant but not essential to the post. The post holder will support a portfolio of studies, with the support of senior staff.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for two full time Clinical Research Nurses to join our friendly Team.

The Clinical Research Facility (CRF) nurses play a key role in the delivery of clinical research at St. George's Hospital, developing and creating robust systems and processes to enable clinical research to run smoothly, efficiently and whilst ensuring the highest of standards are maintained.

The CRF also supports COVID19 trials and the post holder will be required to work on these as well.

This role involves liaison with Principal Investigators and other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality data collection and clinical care, with a commitment to participant safety and welfare. The post holder will be expected to advocate for patients and empower them to make informed choices concerning their involvement in clinical research studies by providing advice and information. The post holder will work with a high level of autonomy, taking delegated responsibility from clinicians for clinical decision making, and will work closely with investigators and multidisciplinary staff.

We are very keen to meet potential applicants and would be very happy to facilitate informal visits or answer enquiries regarding the post.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.