Research Nurse

Job summary

Research Nurse / Senior Research Nurse

As a member of the Research Team across Ashfields Primary Care Centre and Kiltearn Medical Centre, you will support the delivery of a reputable and efficient research function, maintaining the highest standards in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and all regulatory requirements.

You will work closely with the GP Principal Investigators and the Head of Research Nursing as part of a team based across five dedicated research rooms.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for managing your own trial participants throughout their research journey, from screening through to study close-out.

This will include:

• Identifying and recruiting eligible participants.
• Obtaining informed consent.
• Conducting study visits.
• Administering investigational medicinal products (IMPs).
• Performing ECGs.
• Collecting blood samples and other study samples.
• Recording and maintaining study data using sponsor data systems.
• Supporting sponsor monitoring visits.

About us

We are one of the hubs of the Cheshire and Merseyside Primary Care Commercial Research Delivery Centre, bringing commercial drug trials into general practice. Between Ashfields and Kiltearn we have delivered more than 70 studies, recruited around 4,600 participants, and had UK and European first recruits on major international trials. Our work is mostly Phase II/III trials in heart failure, diabetes, obesity and kidney disease, with sponsors including AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk and Amgen, plus a smaller portfolio of NIHR studies. For more information about our research programme, visit:www.cheshiregpresearch.co.uk

What We Offer

• A supportive and experienced research team.
• Full training and development opportunities.
• No nights, weekends or bank holiday.
• Recognition of previous NHS service.
• The opportunity to make a genuine difference to future patient care.

Details

• Date posted: 14 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £39,959 to £56,515 a year In line with AfC Band 6/7 equivalent (dependent on experience)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: A2297-26-0024
• Job locations: Middlewich Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1EQ, United Kingdom, Kiltearn Medical Centre, Church View Primary Care Centre, Beam Street, NANTWICH, Cheshire, CW5 5NX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Main responsibilities

• Finding and recruiting participants.
• Run and review searches of the practice clinical system against study criteria.
• Manage invitation mailouts and responses.
• Pre-screen patients by reviewing records, medications and assess and document participant eligibility against protocol inclusion and exclusion criteria in conjunction with the PI.
• Explain studies to patients and take informed consent within delegated duties.

Study visits and clinical care

• Carry out protocol visits, including observations, ECGs, venepuncture, and sample processing, packing and shipping.
• Administer investigational medicinal products and teach self-administration where required. Manage IMP storage and accountability.
• Use randomisation and drug-allocation systems.
• Recognise, record and escalate adverse events and serious adverse events to the PI within reporting timelines.
• Carry out home visits where a study requires them.
• Provide information, advice and support to participants throughout their involvement and liaise with their usual practice team.
• Monitor treatment toxicity and/or side effects and take appropriate action.
• Work within the NMC Code of Conduct andyour own scope of practice.

Data and quality

• Keep accurate, contemporaneous source documents. Enter data into sponsor EDC systems and resolve queries promptly.
• Prepare for and support monitoring visits, audits and inspections.
• Keep delegation logs, training records and site files current.
• Support study close-out, including data reconciliation, archiving and sponsor close-out requirements.
• Work to the practice research SOPs, GCP and the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.

Team

• Work with the research coordinator, clinical research assistants and practice teams to plan visits and room use across both sites.
• Contribute to team meetings, SOP updates and training new staff.
• Work with other network practices when studies are delivered across sites.

Additional responsibilities at Band 7

• Lead a defined group of studies, accountable for set-up, recruitment against target, data quality and close-out.
• Act as main site contact for sponsors and CROs on those studies.
• Contribute to feasibility, capacity assessment and study selection with the Research Manager and PIs.
• Supervise Band 6 nurses and clinical research assistants, including contributing to competency sign-off and contributing to appraisals with the Head of Research Nursing.
• Lead on audit and inspection readiness for allocated studies.
• Deputise for the Head of Research Nursing when required.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).