Trainee Clinical Trials Research Assistant

Job overview

South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust is committed to hosting high-quality research. The Clinical Research Unit based at Barnes Hospital (temporarily based in Teddington) serves a Trust-wide research portfolio in observational and interventional Phase II-IV trials.  We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Trainee Clinical Research Trials Assistant to join the Team and support our work on National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Portfolio studies. This post provides a great opportunity for the successful candidate to gain experience in clinical research delivery, work together with other researchers in the Team, recruit participants and carry out clinical and psychometric assessments. Personal professional development through training, educational meetings and career guidance will also be available.  Applicants are welcome to contact the Clinical Research Unit for further information by e-mailing Tania West, Head of Research: [email protected]

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways in R&D Governance and Clinical Research Delivery.

In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in R&D Governance, setting up and delivering clinical research.

Main duties of the job

As part of this role, the candidate would be expected to support our clinical research delivery team with the screening, identification, and recruitment participants into NIHR clinical research studies, and support the research delivery team across all areas of the Trust NIHR research portfolio. This may involve cross-site working. The post will be for 6 months fixed term in the first instance.

Agile and flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible and agile working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Core Responsibilities 1. Develop knowledge of the ethical principles for clinical research and its implications for  current practice.  2. As a member of the R&D team, s/he will be responsible for the provision of robust  operational support in all aspects of clinical trials administration according to Good  Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, local standard operating procedures (SOPs) and  other relevant SWLStG policies.  3. Be responsible for his/her own personal and professional development, ensuring that  all relevant skills and training (e.g. GCP) remaining up-to-date to carry out all jobrelated responsibilities. 4. Help to identify mental health service users and carers who are eligible to take part in  a range of research projects and to provide information and support for users involved  in research projects.  5. Help to collect data, which will involve reviewing electronic medical records and data  entry. 6. Help to recruit patients into observational research studies, through screening records,  assisting to recruit participants, and participate in the follow-up and completion of  relevant trial-specific paperwork. 7. Post holder will ensure that patients’ care and treatment, assessments, follow-up and  data collection are conducted according to the appropriate research protocols.