Senior Clinical Trials Administrator

Job overview

Be solely responsible for a portfolio of clinical trials, managing individual trial set up processes, from initiation to completion, in a timely and efficient manner.

Be an integral part of the clinical trials team, ensuring trials are opened to a robust timeframe enabling novel treatments to be available to patients.

Main duties of the job

To operate autonomously to process applications to all relevant bodies to obtain regulatory and ethical approvals for clinical research protocols, including those which have been developed locally (includes MHRA, NRES, Trust R&D)

• Liaise with study clinicians and research nurses to ensure compliance with local SOP’s and to ensure new research protocols are produced and submitted as planned by PI
• Taking responsibility for a portfolio of trials ensuring processes are followed and tracked and checked, to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy will close on the 16th February 2026

Interviews are due to be held on the 24th February 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.