Biospecimen Coordinator

Job overview

Band 4 / 5 Opportunity Available - Depending on experience.

The Lung Unit at The Royal Marsden is world renowned for excellence in clinical care and clinical research. It comprises a multidisciplinary team of medical oncologists, clinical oncologists, specialist nurses, research nurses, trial coordinators and data managers. It has access to state-of-the-art facilities for all investigations and treatments utilizing expert histopathology, radiology and nuclear medicine services, including MRI and PET/CT, advanced radiation technologies and implementation of genomic medicine.

The post holder will work within the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) Tissue Collection Facility and be responsible, in conjunction with the other Biological Specimen Coordinator(s) within the Lung Unit for  collecting, cataloguing and processing clinical samples (usually tumour and blood specimens) belonging to the Lung Clinical Trials Unit.  The post will be responsible for developing, implementing and reviewing tracking systems for all tissue samples coming through the unit and will ensure all procedures meet with Human Tissue Act (HTA) requirements and Good Clinical Practice UK Regulations for hosted commercial/academic studies as well as all tissue retrieved for  central review from all participating centres in the UK and globally for the Trusts sponsored studies running through the Lung Unit.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) Tissue Collection Facility and be responsible, in conjunction with the other Biological Specimen Coordinator(s) within the Lung Unit for  collecting, cataloguing and processing clinical samples (usually tumour and blood specimens) belonging to the Lung Clinical Trials Unit.  The post will be responsible for developing, implementing and reviewing tracking systems for all tissue samples coming through the unit and will ensure all procedures meet with Human Tissue Act (HTA) requirements and Good Clinical Practice UK Regulations for hosted commercial/academic studies as well as all tissue retrieved for  central review from all participating centres in the UK and globally for the Trusts sponsored studies running through the Lung Unit

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:

• To ensure the timely and efficient collection of tissue and fluid samples from theatre and outpatients
• To send and retrieve samples from external Biobank facilities
• Distribute samples to research groups, laboratories, commercial and academic  sponsors
• To ensure samples are packed, labelled and handled appropriately
• Ensure the dispatch and retrieval of samples ambient or frozen (using dry ice) as requested via external courier services
• Retrieval of samples nationally and internationally and coordinating the receipt of  these samples in a timely fashion to meet research study time points for central interim and final analysis as well as treatment decisions and diagnostic purposes