Job summary
- Work under the direction of the Business Manager, Research & Innovation to ensure all research within the Trust is undertaken in accordance with the Department of Health's Research Governance Framework (DH 2001), the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations (SI 1031/2004 and later amendments) and other relevant regulations and guidelines.
- To contribute to the development of processes of LHP Joint Research Office.
- Determining the cost and resource implications of research protocols.
- Effective liaison with researchers, sponsors, Pharma industry, LHP Joint Research Office and other clinical / academic partners in the management & set up of clinical research.
- Administration of the financial aspects of research contracts and supporting the research teams where applicable.
Main duties of the job
- To deputise for the Research & Innovation Business Manager as required.
- Continue to develop appropriate elements of the internal and external (Edge) document storage system and ensure activity undertaken for LHP Joint Research Partners is documentation via Edge.
- Working under the direction of the Research & Innovation Business Manager, be responsible for the reporting of internal and external grant funding applications.
- Ensure departmental research business information systems are maintained to a high standard to support compliance with regulatory inspections of the organisation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority Jan 2024 (MHRA).
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintain effective systems for recovery of income for research contracts based on patient accrual into studies.
- Maintain effective systems for tracking and storage of Confidential Disclosure Agreements with external parties.
- Maintain effective systems for the tracking and storage of payment request forms for research patient inconvenience payments, research patient travel expense payments, physician locum payments and General Practitioner Questionnaire payments.
- To provide cross-cover working with Research Governance Team. Maintain effective processes and procedures required for the Trust when supporting the Trust as research sponsor (as defined by the Research Governance Framework and the EU Clinical Trials Directive 2001).
- Act as facilitator to ensure Trust departments have a harmonised approach to Research & Innovation business activity. Facilitate the assessment of capacity and capability in the delivery of research at the Trust.
- Act as a facilitator to ensure the R+D department disseminates the application of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) to all areas of research undertaken by the Trust.
- In conjunction with both the Research Governance Manager and Associate Director of Research & Innovation be responsible for ensuring the department is prepared for external regulatory inspections / assessments e.g. MHRA and the Trust's responses to any such inspections.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintain effective systems for recovery of income for research contracts based on patient accrual into studies.
- Maintain effective systems for tracking and storage of Confidential Disclosure Agreements with external parties.
- Maintain effective systems for the tracking and storage of payment request forms for research patient inconvenience payments, research patient travel expense payments, physician locum payments and General Practitioner Questionnaire payments.
- To provide cross-cover working with Research Governance Team. Maintain effective processes and procedures required for the Trust when supporting the Trust as research sponsor (as defined by the Research Governance Framework and the EU Clinical Trials Directive 2001).
- Act as facilitator to ensure Trust departments have a harmonised approach to Research & Innovation business activity. Facilitate the assessment of capacity and capability in the delivery of research at the Trust.
- Act as a facilitator to ensure the R+D department disseminates the application of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) to all areas of research undertaken by the Trust.
- In conjunction with both the Research Governance Manager and Associate Director of Research & Innovation be responsible for ensuring the department is prepared for external regulatory inspections / assessments e.g. MHRA and the Trust's responses to any such inspections.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First Degree in any Science/Mathematics/Finance discipline or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of DoH guidance for costing of clinical research studies
- Experience and knowledge of management of budgets and financial information or equivalent
- Experience of working in clinical research
- Experience of systems utilised to perform R&D within the National Health Service
Desirable
- Experience of in working in a NHS Research and Development Department performing research governance tasks
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of all standards relating to governance of research protocols
- Understanding of the relevance of research to health care delivery
Desirable
- To have knowledge and experience of NHS financial management
Skills
Essential
- Administrative and project management skills
- Ability to communicate with all levels and grades of staff internally and externally of the Trust
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to influence and deal confidently with senior staff in the NHS and the University
- Good report writing skills, data analysis and data management skills
- The ability to direct and manage own workload and that of others
- Ability to provide training to diverse groups of staff
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First Degree in any Science/Mathematics/Finance discipline or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience and knowledge of DoH guidance for costing of clinical research studies
- Experience and knowledge of management of budgets and financial information or equivalent
- Experience of working in clinical research
- Experience of systems utilised to perform R&D within the National Health Service
Desirable
- Experience of in working in a NHS Research and Development Department performing research governance tasks
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of all standards relating to governance of research protocols
- Understanding of the relevance of research to health care delivery
Desirable
- To have knowledge and experience of NHS financial management
Skills
Essential
- Administrative and project management skills
- Ability to communicate with all levels and grades of staff internally and externally of the Trust
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to influence and deal confidently with senior staff in the NHS and the University
- Good report writing skills, data analysis and data management skills
- The ability to direct and manage own workload and that of others
- Ability to provide training to diverse groups of staff
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
