clinical research associate Canterbury, England
Job description
Clinical role Clinical duties will include participation in delivering outpatient clinics, providing clinical assessment and input to patients participating in, or potentially eligible for, clinical research. There will also be some laboratory work, as well as attendance at ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings and clinical governance. Research role Securing and sustaining excellence in clinical research and innovation is a national priority agenda. For England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) agenda directs all National Health Service (NHS) organisations to actively support research activities and to ensure evidence informed practice to improve care quality and outcomes.
Research and innovation are also specifically identified in the NHS Long Term Plan as a key driver for all professions to improve future health outcomes. Research and innovation is key to ensuring safe evidenced based practice to support the people who access our services. It enables us to make a difference, whether that is creating new knowledge, enhancing services, improving outcomes or developing our people. East Kent Hospitals University NHS trust has recently invested in establishing a Clinical Trials Unit and Clinical Research Facility.
Clinical Trials Unit is a specialist unit set up with a specific remit to design, conduct, analyse and publish clinical trials and other well-designed studies. The Research Fellow will support the Research and Innovation activity within Haematology and Haemophilia to inspire, support and increase the quality and volume of research undertaken. The fellow will lead on both discipline specific, inter-professional and cross boundary research and innovation projects, and collaborate with other key stakeholders and partners such as universities, NIHR and local clinical research networks to develop relationships & opportunities. The Research Fellow will have 50% time protected for research activity.
It is expected that the Fellow will support both the Haematology and Haemophilia departments to recruit to NIHR Portfolio studies, commercial and non-commercial studies and support local investigator-initiated research studies and those supported by the Clinical Trials Unit and Facility. The Fellow will be encouraged to develop their own research interest and will be financially supported to undertake post-graduate research training; e.g. PG-Certificate, Masters or doctoral level programme. Research training and experienced clinical academic supervision will be supported by the University of Kent and EKHUFT clinicians.
With the recent opening of the Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS), there are also an increasing range of teaching opportunities and from September 2023, the Clinical Haematology and Haemophilia teams will start to have Medical Students on attachment.
