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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Clinical Research Assistant within the Mood Disorders Research Clinic. The clinic has been created to support and develop clinical trial activity and research in mood disorders in the trust and is part of a national network of research clinics supported by the NIHR funded Mental Health Mission.
The post holder will be chiefly responsible for recruitment and follow-up of trial participants, data acquisition and entering, managing and maintaining trial files, ensuring CRF completeness, supporting bids for new trials; supporting collection and collating clinic data activity, routine data collection from patients, administrative support at the clinic and liaison with related clinical services.
The post holder will report to Prof. Quentin Huys, as well as the Research Delivery Manager for NLFT, and work closely with the trust’s research delivery team, as well as the dynamic team of researchers working in the Applied Computational Psychiatry lab at UCL.
The ideal candidate will both have experience in mental health, and in the support of clinical projects including organizing and collecting data. They will need good interpersonal and management skills as they will need to work in a clinical setting (including collecting data from patients) and build effective professional working relationships with clinicians and academics in other departments and Universities.
The post-holder will undertake a range of duties that assist in delivering on research studies within the Mood Disorders Clinic and the wider NLFT trust, including but not limited to:
A detailed description of the Research Assistant role and its essential and desirable requirements are provided in the Job Description and Person Specification.
A DBS criminal records check will be required. Some travel around the boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey will be involved.