Job summary
The purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive research management support to Wye Valley NHS Trust. The post holder will collaborate with the Trust Associate Chief Medical Officer for Research and Development to develop, manage and implement the Wye Valley NHS Trust research strategy.
This will include enabling the department to meet its objectives through effective performance, quality, and financial management. The post holder will oversee the Research Management function, ensuring it is appropriately resourced and provide approval to the Assess, Arrange and Confirm Research Processes, Research Contracts and other research management activities.
Main duties of the job
- To effectively oversee the functions of the research office, focus on establishing robust processes are to ensure an efficient set up, support researchers and provide an excellent service.
- Ensure applications for capability and capacity and amendments are processed in accordance with current national guidance and regulations including those that are of the Health Research Authority (HRA), ensuring quality assurance and adherence to timeframes.
- Oversee the contracting process, ensuring facilitators appropriately liaise with sponsors as required, and authorising these to go to signatory stage.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust Research Strategy.
- Provide an advice service to local researchers (including students) on all matters of NHS research (e.g. trial design, suitability, feasibility, capability). Support staff indeveloping research ideas, and the development of robust research questions.
Effectively utilise strong influencing and negotiating skills to effectively communicate and exchange highly complex, sensitive information, to a variety of stakeholders in the context of research, overcoming barriers to understanding. This includes the ability to present complex information to internal and external large groups logically and concisely in both verbal and written forms acting as trust representative.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate qualification (MSc or equivalent) in Management, project management, healthcare or science or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and relevant training courses attended pertaining to the research environment
- GCP certificate within last two years or NIHR GCP qualified facilitator
Desirable
- Quality Improvement certification
- Project management certification
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of GCP, research governance and legislation relevant to research and ability to apply this
- Detailed understanding of the national and local research landscape in the UK
- Able to create detailed project plans involving multiple agencies
- Effective line management skills with the ability to support and develop teams.
- Understanding of NHS Acute Trusts and the local, national and regional landscapes in which they operate.
- Knowledge of funding routes for NHS research
- Ability to manage significant workload, and that of others to tight deadlines.
- Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail
- Demonstrable analytical, numeric and critical reasoning skills for effective problem solving.
- Ability to navigate and resolve conflicting priorities reaching effective and efficient solutions.
- Strong communicational skills - Ability to present information logically and concisely both verbally and in writing, including the ability to write reports and policies/procedures with clarity to ensure that complex messages are communicated effectively.
- Effective facilitation and chairing skills for meetings.
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Professional and diplomatic approach under competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development.
- Problem solving skills - Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Communicate sensitive/performance information to stakeholders
- Excellent presentation skills including the ability to prepare and present concise and insightful reports to a broad range of audiences
- Able to manage complex relationships.
- Ability to lead meetings and discussions with teams both inside and outside the organisation and work cohesively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to work collaboratively and hold others to account for delivery of project actions and milestones.
- Strong negotiation, facilitation and networking skills.
- High level of computer-literacy including: creation and use of spreadsheets, databases, charts reports and data analysis in formats that will enable informed decision making, working to a high degree of accuracy.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite including Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook
Desirable
- Evidence of change management, stakeholder engagement, risk management skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working within a clinical research environment, including the set up and approval of clinical research studies, governance and performance
- Experience of costing and contracting process
- Experience with project co-ordination and administration.
- Experience of Information Governance guidelines
- Managerial / leadership experience
Desirable
- Managing resources and / or budgets
- Experience working across complex organisational structures and effective matrix management
Personal Attributes
Essential
- A flexible and resilient approach
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Seeks contributions from others
- Facilitative, patient, collaborative and helpful
- Innovative thinker
- Self-motivated
- Confident
- Comfortable working under pressure and to deadlines
- Flexibility with hours and ability to travel
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Commitment to confidentiality
Other Factors
Essential
- The post requires standard keyboard use, sitting for long periods at a computer and screen
- The post may require meetings across the region and travel to national events
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate qualification (MSc or equivalent) in Management, project management, healthcare or science or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and relevant training courses attended pertaining to the research environment
- GCP certificate within last two years or NIHR GCP qualified facilitator
Desirable
- Quality Improvement certification
- Project management certification
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of GCP, research governance and legislation relevant to research and ability to apply this
- Detailed understanding of the national and local research landscape in the UK
- Able to create detailed project plans involving multiple agencies
- Effective line management skills with the ability to support and develop teams.
- Understanding of NHS Acute Trusts and the local, national and regional landscapes in which they operate.
- Knowledge of funding routes for NHS research
- Ability to manage significant workload, and that of others to tight deadlines.
- Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail
- Demonstrable analytical, numeric and critical reasoning skills for effective problem solving.
- Ability to navigate and resolve conflicting priorities reaching effective and efficient solutions.
- Strong communicational skills - Ability to present information logically and concisely both verbally and in writing, including the ability to write reports and policies/procedures with clarity to ensure that complex messages are communicated effectively.
- Effective facilitation and chairing skills for meetings.
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Professional and diplomatic approach under competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development.
- Problem solving skills - Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- Communicate sensitive/performance information to stakeholders
- Excellent presentation skills including the ability to prepare and present concise and insightful reports to a broad range of audiences
- Able to manage complex relationships.
- Ability to lead meetings and discussions with teams both inside and outside the organisation and work cohesively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to work collaboratively and hold others to account for delivery of project actions and milestones.
- Strong negotiation, facilitation and networking skills.
- High level of computer-literacy including: creation and use of spreadsheets, databases, charts reports and data analysis in formats that will enable informed decision making, working to a high degree of accuracy.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite including Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook
Desirable
- Evidence of change management, stakeholder engagement, risk management skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience working within a clinical research environment, including the set up and approval of clinical research studies, governance and performance
- Experience of costing and contracting process
- Experience with project co-ordination and administration.
- Experience of Information Governance guidelines
- Managerial / leadership experience
Desirable
- Managing resources and / or budgets
- Experience working across complex organisational structures and effective matrix management
Personal Attributes
Essential
- A flexible and resilient approach
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Seeks contributions from others
- Facilitative, patient, collaborative and helpful
- Innovative thinker
- Self-motivated
- Confident
- Comfortable working under pressure and to deadlines
- Flexibility with hours and ability to travel
- A commitment to Equal Opportunities
- Commitment to confidentiality
Other Factors
Essential
- The post requires standard keyboard use, sitting for long periods at a computer and screen
- The post may require meetings across the region and travel to national events
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.
