An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the research team at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), working with each other to contribute to national and international  research studies.

This band 6 role involves working with the team to deliver trials to our SATH population, giving them the opportunity to participate in developing novel and innovative treatments and interventions. 

Two positions are available due to internal secondments one is full time and one is 30 hours.

These roles are within the generic research team covering multiple specialities including respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, gastroenterology and neurology amongst others.

No two days will look the same as you work on new trials, follow ups, screening and recruiting patients while guiding them through their research journey. 

Ideally the post holder will have recent experience of working in Clinical Research or the ability demonstrate a real passion for research. You must be flexible and hard working with the ability to manage your workload effectively to cope with tight deadlines and conflicting demands. 

The ability to learn multiple studies and  appreciate the research concepts within each is crucial to this role being rewarding. 

Visits to the department are highly encouraged prior to shortlisting.

Your base will be The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

Cross site working is expected and you will need to be able to travel to Princess Royal Hospital and Hollinswood house CDC.

The focus of this role will be to help the recruitment and follow up of patients in studies, both academic and industry sponsored.

 The role will involve identifying, screening, consenting, recruiting and conducting follow up with patients into many national clinical studies, as well as entering data onto spreadsheets and data collection forms. The successful post holder will have overall day-to-day duty for the delivery of clinical protocols into non-interventional as well as more complex interventional academic and industry studies.

Cross site working is expected with this role .

You will be line managed by the Band 7 Team guide the Research Sister but work closely with Consultants, Registrars and the wider MDT.  You will also work closely with the Research and Innovation Team to promote the importance of clinical research across the Trust.  

You will be expected to attend local Clinical Research Network meetings as well Investigator meetings. You will also be provided with training to fulfil the role.

You will be required to engage the clinical staff to facilitate recruitment into both simple and more complex clinical studies, often in quite stressful situations and at short notice.