Direct Delivery Team Senior Research Nurse (Derbyshire) Belper, England
Job description
Fixed Term until September 2024 contract within the UHL.
BAND 6, SENIOR CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE, FULL OR PART TIME CONSIDERED
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be a part of our CRN East Midlands flexible workforce, the Direct Delivery Team.
We are seeking to appoint a Band 6 Senior Clinical Research Nurse (dependent on experience, knowledge and skills), to be part of a small team of research staff in our Derbyshire Hub. The successful applicant will have current clinical research experience, who is keen to gain more experience in supporting the conduct of research across differing specialties and settings, supporting commercial and non commercial research.
The post holder will be based at our office in Babington Hospital in Belper, however extensive travelling across the county will be expected, and some travel across the East Midlands will be required.
Traditionally, the majority of healthcare research has been conducted in secondary care settings, however, the research landscape is changing and this post will be vital in supporting the LCRN in adapting to this change. The post holder will join us at a very exciting time for the CRN East Midlands, through the Transformation of Research Delivery programme, it intends to develop its ability to respond to public health requirements and be best placed to respond to the changing research landscape.
Our flexible workforce, the Direct Delivery Team, has built a reputation of excellence, providing researchers with a service to achieve high quality outcomes. With ambitious plans to expand the team and provide development opportunities to provide the team with the skills required to support the delivery of research in public health, community and social care settings.
This post is a fixed term contract within the NHS; you will be responsible for your own workload and support colleagues to carry out their caseloads of NIHR portfolio clinical research trials/ studies.
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has transformed the delivery of research in health and care settings. Together, the NIHR people, programmes and centres of excellence represent the most integrated health research system in the world.
The NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) is an arm of the NIHR dedicated to supporting patients, the public and health & care organisations across England to participate in high-quality research. CRN East Midlands (CRN EM) is one of 15 Local Clinical Research Networks covering England, led by a National Coordinating Centre.
We are proud to be at the forefront of health and social care research delivery in the East Midlands, working with partner organisations operating in a broad range of settings across Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.
Our team is committed to improving and increasing research opportunities for patients and health and care organisations. We embrace innovations that can enable us to work more effectively with our partners, and that make research more inclusive, diverse and accessible for participants.
Hosted by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust with offices in Leicester and Nottingham, our model incorporates a number of different roles to enable us to drive clinical research delivery performance, and to ensure that research is championed across every level of health and care.
To find out more about the CRN East Midlands,visit: https://local.nihr.ac.uk/lcrn/east-midlands/
Find out more about working with us:
https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/
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