# Clinical Research Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-research-practitioner/bc81b33a-e473-4ea5-a467-9ad9270b9489 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-research-practitioner/bc81b33a-e473-4ea5-a467-9ad9270b9489.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trinity House (Trust Headquarters) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Research practitioner - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Secondment: 6 months (Until March 31 2027) - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (15hrs - Secondment) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T15:40:30.739Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Home/Kent_Community_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Clinical_Research/Clinical_Research-v8382137 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8382137?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us. We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Clinical Research Practitioner to join our professional team on a secondment basis until 31 March 2027. Please note this is for 15hrs part time. Interviews will be held 09 November 2026. We’re a close team but we’re never exclusive, if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you. Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom. ### Main duties of the job Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in. We’re always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is an important one as you’ll be using your knowledge, experience and expertise to provide support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams. We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so although NHS experience isn’t a requirement for this role you’ll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times. The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you’ll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further. The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert. We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve. Find out more about the community difference here. Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to plan, initiate, manage and deliver trials/projects to completion - Keyboard skills, writing, speaking to a range of internal/external stakeholders, groups, staff of all grades including Trust Directors. - Can travel independently and in a timely way to all sites and patient homes - Ability to communicate with staff of all levels - Able and willingness to develop new skills - Ability to organise own diary and time management **Desirable** - Excellent communication and interpersonal skill searching and training skills - Clinical skills, requiring precision, such as taking blood, cannulation and injections. - Confident in ability to use clinical equipment to assist in the assessment and treatment of patients. - Ability to work in continuing altered conditions, which are sometimes difficult with little space and access to usual clinical support such as in a patient’s home. - Communicating and interviewing patients ### Experience **Essential** - Experience in the conduct of clinical trials - Experience of working in/with NHS clinical specialty team **Desirable** - Research project management experience - Experience in the community setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to Diploma/Degree or equivalent experience - Competency in use of Microsoft Office - CRP Accredited **Desirable** - Teaching qualification or experience - Higher degree/formal study of research design/methodology in clinical or social care setting ### Personal attributes **Essential** - Ability to apply a common sense and logical approach to identify key or underlying issues in difficult situations and use initiative to solve problems - Excellent Communication skills – both verbal, non-verbal, written and presenting **Desirable** - Able to think strategically - Collaborative working across Multiple agencies ### Specialist knowledge and experiance **Essential** - Knowledge of clinical research infrastructure in UK - Knowledge of the role of a Clinical Research Practitioner **Desirable** - Knowledge of principles of informed consent for participation in research - Knowledge of Information Governance and Data Protection - Knowledge of Principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) - Knowledge of UK Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 that implement EU Clinical Trials Directive - Knowledge of Research Governance Framework - Knowledge of legislation regarding safety reporting and pharmacovigilance ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10711067) - [staff privacy notice (pdf, 528.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2665) - [kchft values into action (pdf, 440.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=479) - [staff journey illustration (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2277) - [a guide to completing your application (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2025) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.