Job requirements
Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Active or previous role in a university or NHS research management team
- Experience
Active or previous governance role in regional and/or national organisation research or innovation
- Experience
Improves communication amongst colleagues using a range of skills including influencing, advocacy, championing, and facilitation
- Experience
Promotes and models good practice consistent with legislation relating to: • Governance • Research • Data protection
- Qualifications
Educated to master’s level or equivalent experience in a relevant subject area (e.g. clinical research, healthcare management and governance, public health, biomedical science, or equivalent professional field)
- Qualifications
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Qualifications
Evidence of continuous professional development (CPD) in research governance, regulatory compliance
- Qualifications
Formal management or leadership training (or equivalent demonstrable experience operating at senior strategic level within complex healthcare systems).
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Challenges inferior performance of colleagues in a supportive, constructive, and effective manner
- Qualifications
Coaching or mentoring qualification (or evidence of structured coaching/leadership development training).
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Research Governance Manager, with experience of working at a regional level, to join the Research and Innovation Directorate (R&I) at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM). This senior role will provide regional leadership, co-ordination, and standardisation of research governance processes across the North Midlands, directly addressing critical bottlenecks in commercial and non-commercial study set-up. This role will play a key part in supporting centres at different stages of research sponsorship development by strengthening their research governance, monitoring, auditing, and oversight frameworks. Through targeted guidance, the role will ensure consistent standards across all areas and provide the necessary support to achieve and maintain MHRA readiness. You will reduce unwarranted variation, and support delivery of the 150-day research study set-up target.
Main duties of the job
The role will be instrumental in transforming future healthcare and improving outcomes through research evidence - both for our Trust and across the region. With NIHR infrastructure funding and the opening of our Commercial Research Delivery Centre in April 2025, this is an exciting time to join the UHNM R&I Directorate as we push the boundaries of clinical research to benefit patients.
We are looking for a dynamic and passionate Research Governance Manager with extensive experience, particularly with experience of working across multiple sites/regionally.
This is your opportunity to take on a strategic leadership role within the UHNM Research and Innovation Directorate, playing a pivotal part in the delivery of a governance service, regionally, that leads to tangible improvements in patient-centred research.
If you are passionate about leading research governance, and supporting all regional organisations this is your opportunity to make a significant difference.
This is a 3 year fixed term position
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information please see the attached job description and person specification. For further details please contact Sarah Jones-Faulkner
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Regional Research Governance Lead with University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust in Stoke-on-Trent, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Lead (legacy management group) role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum. The contract type is 3 years (3 years fixed term). The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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