Radiology Research Manager (EF:100)

Job overview

The Department of Radiology, including Nuclear Medicine, is a large care group in the Trust and provides a full range of imaging and treatment services to numerous specialities including hepatobiliary, vascular, renal, cardiac and trauma. We image and treat a large population within our local community in South-East London and are also a well-recognised specialist tertiary referral centre, imaging and treating patients from all over the South-East of England and further afield.

Unless there is explicit separation between Radiology and Nuclear Medicine specialities, reference from now on will be made to the Radiology Department which includes Nuclear Medicine.

The Department of Radiology plays a key role in King’s extensive research network. This role is best suited to an experienced Radiographer or Technologist, with experience in how research is managed within a Radiology Department.

The role of the Research Manager is to be responsible for the efficient, timely and responsive coordination and management of research activity (commercial and non-commercial trials) requiring involvement of Radiology and/or Nuclear Medicine.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will function as the primary point of contact for all imaging research and trial related queries within Radiology. Support will be provided to the post holder by the Radiology Clinical & Nuclear Medicine Clinical Research Leads.

The post holder will identify the resourcing and capacity requirements of the trial and consult with the relevant members within Radiology to ascertain whether that modality can accommodate the trial.

The post holder will be responsible, in consultation with the Radiology Research Lead, for identifying all costs associated with the trial and ensuring all associated revenue and funding is recovered.

In conjunction with the Radiation Protection Department, the poster holder will coordinate the Governance requirements of research involving exposure to ionising radiation and radiopharmaceuticals within Radiology & Nuclear Medicine.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Responsibilities – Trial Set up and Coordination

To be the primary contact between clinical researchers (principal investigators) and clinical trial coordinators within the Trust in the set-up of clinical trials that involve Radiology.

To be the first line of contact for any research sponsors that require imaging as part of their research study within Radiology.

To assist with the completion of any pre-trial paperwork for external study sponsors (e.g., surveys or questionnaires) requiring information from Radiology.

To ensure the appropriate persons are issued the clinical trial protocols, Integrated Research

Approval System (IRAS) forms and study documents provided by King’s Healthcare Partners Clinical Trials Office (KHP-CTO, commercial trials) or the R&D Department (non-commercial trials) and provide a timely response about initial capacity approval for clinical trials involving Radiology, identify preliminary discrepancies and/or errors that can be flagging up with the KHP-CTO, R&D office or sponsor, and provide suggested appropriate amendments and problem solving with the responsible parties (e.g., KHP-CTO, R&D office).

To assist with the completion of regulatory paperwork pertaining to necessary regulatory approvals in IR(ME)R, ARSAC or IRAS forms (e.g., sign off by the Medical Physics Expert [MPE] and the Clinical Radiology Expert [CRE]) are in place before commencement of clinical trials involving Radiology. To ensure this paperwork is signed off in a timely manner and submitted to the KHP-CTO or R&D office.

To monitor timelines in the completion of regulatory paperwork and identify solutions to reduce or eliminate existing or potential delays.

To consult with each of the Superintendent Radiographers (and the Radiology Head of Imaging Services, and Radiology General Manager where required) about potential capacity limitations with requested imaging requirements for clinical trials involving Radiology.

To consult with the Radiation Protection Department about the setup of clinical trials involving Radiology & Nuclear Medicine.

To attend trial feasibility meetings as the Radiology imaging representative and any Trust R&D committee meetings, as required.

To participate in site selection visits and site initiation visits that require Radiology and/or Nuclear Medicine imaging for an individual clinical trial.

To provide costings for individual Radiology and/or Nuclear Medicine clinical trial procedures that involve participation of Radiology and/or Nuclear Medicine taking care to ensure all costs are identified, reported, and covered by funding available.

In conjunction with the Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Clinical Research Leads, to provide final capacity and costing approval for clinical trials within the Trust that involve Radiology participation.

To respond to and answer imaging queries that arise from sponsors (and their associated clinical trial imaging coordinators or clinical research organisations [CROs]) in a timely fashion.

To collaborate with other members of Radiology to develop robust methods of recording clinical trial Radiology activity.

To provide guidance to clinical research teams in the Trust about the requesting of clinical trial imaging procedures on the relevant computer systems as specified within the clinical trial protocols.

To coordinate the complex reporting of Radiology trial scans (e.g., RESIST/Lugano reporting requirements), where appropriate and ensure reporting is conducted within timelines set by study protocols. To assist in the development and implementation of quality assurance mechanisms for this.

To identify, train and support new members within Radiology around the conduct of clinical trial imaging.