We are looking for a Clinical Trials Assistant to take on an exciting new role, based in the Orthopaedic Research Team but working predominantly with the Newcastle Retrieval Centre based at the Freeman Hospital.
The successful candidate will be based in a small team providing a multi-disciplinary, integrated tissue / implant service within the Trust. Which will develop links with industry, academia and NHS organisations and be able to rapidly answer clinical questions which demand analysis of patient tissue. This will be both an expansion and amalgamation of the existing Newcastle Orthopaedic Retrieval Service (NRC) and the Tissue and Explant Analysis of Medical Implant Failure (TEAM) services to incorporate a range of surgical specialities.
The role will provide an opportunity for the post holder to expand upon their current skills and experience; handling and processing patient samples, contributing towards the expansion of research delivery to beyond the current surgical specialties and working with university based scientists as they analyse samples as we work towards answering important clinical questions.
• Interview date: 16 July 2024
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Support will be provided by an active and engaged group of surgeons, as well as a Clinical Trials Officer, Healthcare Scientist and the wider Orthopaedic Research Team.
Working in a small team under the supervision of a Clinical Trials Officer and supported by the Orthopaedic Research Team the post holder will carry out duties to facilitate important clinical research. The post holder will carry out duties including:
· Identifying and screening potential research participants.
· Approaching patients to discuss our research and obtaining informed consent.
· Input of participant data into research databases, ensuring accurate records.
· Accurate input of participant data onto electronic case report forms.
· Coordination of research sample collection with clinical teams.
· Research sample processing and storage.
· Supporting the team in the overall running of our studies.
· Represent our team and the Trust according to our core values.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• Coordinate and improve trial communication throughout Multi-Disciplinary Teams throughout the Trust
• Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professional to ensure service delivery
• Communicates effectively with research team and study participants and their family members. Is able to provide patients with information, which may be complex or sensitive, regarding their participation in the clinical trial and the care that they will receive as a consequence of that
• Facilitate the recruitment of research participants in to low risk research studies, which is likely to include quality of life and tissue sample collection studies
• Support the research delivery team to successfully deliver a broad ranging portfolio of clinical trials
• Coordinate and supervise housekeeping duties and ordering of all clinical trial supplies
• Co-ordinate the collection transfer and storage of blood / tissue samples in accordance with the Human Tissue Act 2004 as required by trial protocol
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Jun 2024
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