Research Assistant

3 weeks ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
**An exciting opportunity has arisen, for a motivated and enthusiastic Research Assistant with relevant experience to join our Northern Care Alliance Delivery Team, supporting recruitment and sample collection for the Post-Mortem Tissue Retrieval in Upper Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinoma: Unravelling Transcriptional Networks in Metastasis (TraNMet) alongside other Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) research trials.**

**Main duties of the job**:

- We are looking for a motivated and effective communicator with a ‘can do’ attitude and an eye for detail; they will need to take ownership and delivery of their work with a desire to develop their research skills. You should be organise/able to prioritise and demonstrate initiative, within the ethically approved confines of the protocol and Good Clinical Practice; able to thrive on challenges and be an effective problem solver.This role will require the individual to work with patients with terminal cancer diagnosis as well as their families and the palliative care teams. It is essential that the successful applicant is able to demonstrate sensitivity and professionalism in this role.

As part of your work you will be required to attend post-mortems and support staff with sample collection labelling and organising the transfer of materials.

You will be based at the Salford Care Organisation and managed by the Delivery Team Lead. There will be an occasional requirement to travel to the The Christie NHS Foundation trust to support research trial activities.

The Inpatient Research Delivery Team currently support a variety of collections including the upper GI trials. The research portfolio is continually evolving and as part of training you may be required to work on some of the studies that we deliver to provide you with the experience and training that you need to support you in the role.

**Working for our organisation**:
Northern Care Alliance is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. NCA is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (PAT). Our dedicated team of around 20,000 staff - our NCA Family - provide a range of community and hospital services to over one million people across Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Salford, as well as providing more specialist care services to patients across Greater Manchester and beyond.

Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within a group arrangement of hospitals, community, and healthcare services. Together they manage and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their hospital and community services, ensuring the safe delivery of high-quality care at scale.

This is the place where success is achievable and every day offers the challenges, empowerment, freedom and support necessary to break new ground and improve life outcomes. If you want to play a part in creating a healthier community for Greater Manchester, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of good communication skills
- Evidence of good organisational skills

**Desirable criteria**:

- Evidence of ICH-GCP training

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Minimum of NVQ level 3 plus diploma (foundation degree) or relevant experience of working in healthcare
- Computer literacy, ECDL or equivalent qualification or experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- GCP certificate or working towards
- Graduate degree

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of administrative work including data management
- Experience of working under tight/unexpected deadlines
- Previous experience of working autonomously

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of working within a healthcare system

**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

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