Do you have a passion for research?  Would you like to work in a state of the art building amongst a budding team of researchers and scientists?

The Research and Development department here NNUH is growing and therefore need a motivated individual with a passion for research to join the team as Research Study Officer.

The R&D team is busy! You’ll be joining a team of 18, including 4 research study officers who together manage up to 300 active studies at any one time. You could be supporting with anything from a straight forward questionnaire based project to a big drug intervention. It has already been an exciting start to the year for the team, with the launch of the COVID vaccination; an investigational vaccine clinical trial is now underway thanks to the R&D team at NNUH with support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

As Research Study Officer, you will be the ‘go-to’ person ahead of a study commencing – you will plan and organise all of the finer details to ensure the smooth running of studies once active.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Facilitate study feasibility, set up, approvals and ongoing research management
• Work alongside the Research team to provide advice to researchers and investigators, ensuring full access to the range of high quality research management, regulation and governance, and NHS structures and services, to inform and guide the Trust
• Implement national, best practice research management processes throughout the Trust and ensure that investigators are supported in recruiting to studies.

This role would suit someone who is able to work confidently across multi-disciplinary teams, with experience project managing the full pre-study process. You will have an innovative and flexible approach to the way you work and have previous experience delivering excellent service. The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times.

The ideal candidate will have a robust understanding of academic and research processes, experience of working with people, be able to communicate (sometimes complex) information both written and orally to a range of audiences and have the ability to spin lots of plates at once!

The R&D department is keen to help members of the team progress in their role and is supported by the Trust who has big ambitions for research here at NNUH.

If you have experience working in a clinical research environment or similar and a knowledge and understanding of the ethics committee and MHRA approval processes within R&D, we would love to hear from you!