Health Care Assistant - Clinical Research Facility London, England
Job description
Do you want to give exceptional care and be involved in providing state-of the art treatments to patients?
We are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated health care assistant/housekeeper to become part of the Research Nursing Team at the National Institute for Health Research UCLH Clinical Research Facility (CRF). The NIHR UCLH Clinical Research Facility UCLH is a well-established Clinical Research Facility (CRF) covering two sites. The Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre is a dedicated neuroscience experimental medicine facility at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) at Queen Square (QS); the NIHR UCLH Clinical Research Facility is a comprehensive Cancer and Medical research facility on the Bloomsbury campus (BC) at Tottenham Court Road and UCLH Vaccination Centre in 52 Gowers Street.
The research nursing team in the CRFs provide exceptional specialist nursing care to a wide variety of patients taking part in early phase clinical trials of experimental cancer and medicine treatments. This includes First-in-Human medicines and experimental early phase treatments in oncology, hematology, medicine, neurology and COVID-19 vaccine studies.
We are looking for an individual with excellent communication and organisational skills and a keen attention to detail. The successful candidate will have clinical experience either in in-patient or out-patient health care setting and an interest in working across a range studies, including cancer, medicine and different specialities including COVID-19 vaccine studies within the Clinical Research Facility (CRF).
The post holder will be supported by senior nurses within the units, and the role is ideal for a highly motivated health care assistant who is keen to further develop their experience in the field of nursing or other health care profession. The post holder will work in close collaboration with the Research Nursing Team and research support staff, to ensure compliance with Trust Policy, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Human Tissue Act (HTA), and trial specific protocols.
An experience in cancer care and clinical research is desirable but not essential. Full training will be given as part of the Trust Induction programme.
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
