Senior Clinical Trial Coordinator

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Trial Administrator to join the Breast Clinical Research Unit at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, based at both our Sutton and Chelsea sites.

The Royal Marsden is a world leader in cancer research, treatment and education. Together with our academic partner, The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), we are the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe and the only National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) specialising in cancer in the UK.

We are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated team members to contribute to the ground-breaking research run out of our unit.

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

The primary purpose of the Senior Trial Coordinator post in the breast clinical research unit is to:

• Take responsibility for ensuring clinical trials within the unit are conducted and managed in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and Trust SOPs.
• Be responsible for conveying the requirements of the Clinical R&D Office to clinical staff within their allocated Clinical Unit.
• Provide an efficient clinical trial coordination service to the unit, ensuring trials fulfil all statutory requirements.
• Oversee the conduct of trials within the unit and maintain day to day responsibility for specific trials within the Unit.
• Represent the unit at key meeting and deputise for the Research Operations Manager as required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:

• Ensure all research within the unit receives all relevant regulatory approval before it commences.
• Implementation of systems within the unit to ensure research cannot commence without all regulatory approvals.
• Under the direction of the Research Operations Manager to lead implementation of systems within the unit to ensure all clinical trials are conducted in accordance with all regulatory requirements including:

• To review capacity and resource requirements within the unit for coordination and administrative management of trial portfolio and to advise the Research Operations Manager accordingly.
• Ensure all patients consented to clinical trials in the unit are recorded on the electronic patient record (EPIC).

• Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations  o    Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care o     Human Tissue Act