Assistant Clinical Research Practitioners

4 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This position is initially a Band 4 post with the potential to progress to a Band 5 Clinical Research Practitioner once competencies are achieved.

This role would suit a motivated individual with Clinical support experience (eg. Therapy or Healthcare assistant), who wishes to pursue a career in research and have the opportunity to progress. The role of Assistant Clinical Research Practitioner (ACRP) is to provide clinical and administrative support for research trials and studies at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The ACRP will work collaboratively with the research delivery team to assist with implementation of all aspects of clinical research, including delivery of patient care, clinical data collection, organising clinical investigations, preparing and shipping samples, and assisting with participant screening and recruitment.

The post holder will be working across all specialties within the Trust depending of the needs of the service, and be responsiblefor relevant studies.

Uniquely, this post offers the opportunity of career progression to a Clinical Research Practitioner role depending on successful completion of competencies.Clinical Research Practitioners | NIHR

The main duties of an Assistant Clinical Research Practitioner include:

- Supporting nursing staff to identify eligible patients for research studies
- Support nursing staff to deliver informed consent of patients to research studies.
- Assist the nursing team in the planning and delivery of research care.
- Support requests for diagnostic tissue samples.
- Support data collection from research participants.
- Liaise with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate research.
- Uphold Good Clinical Practice Research standards.

The Research and Development team of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is a dynamic team, delivering a wide portfolio of research including:

- Trials evaluating robot assisted surgery.
- Trials evaluating the best way to deliver rehabilitation for people with arthritis.
- Studies evaluating factors which influence outcomes from surgery.
- Genomic sequencing of patients with sarcoma.
- Tissue studies evaluating the relationship between chronic inflammation and osteoarthritis.
- Trials testing new surgical devices.

The post-holder will be fully supported by a Senior Research Nurse team and Lead Research Nurse. Flexible working hours are encouraged.

Clinical (Clinical service and professional responsibilities)
- Assist screening of healthcare information and patient demographics against pre-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria to determine patient eligibility to participate in allocated studies.
- Support in identifying eligible patients and optimise recruitment by attending clinics and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- Work alongside medical and nursing staff to assist in the informed consent process by giving information to patients concerning research studies and allowing them to reach a fully informed decision about participation.
- Assist research nurses in the planning and delivery of patient care to research participants.
- Work alongside research nurses ensuring samples are collected and recorded per protocol.
- To support the request of diagnostic examinations according to protocol-specific timelines.
- Assist in the review and recording of research treatments, adverse events and response to treatment on relevant study documentation including source data and case report forms, including electronic data entry and query resolution.
- Support the research team to plan, prepare and participate in sponsors site initiation and monitoring visits.
- Support patients to complete study documentation such as questionnaires and diaries.
- Assist the research nurses in study follow up visits, including face to face and telephone assessments.
- In discussion with the study lead research nurse, report adverse and serious adverse events to the relevant trial centre and site personnel, within the agreed timelines to ensure trial procedures and patient safety parameters are met.
- Provide general administrative support to include filing, answering telephone calls, retrieving test results and arranging meetings as required.
- To support the delivery of tissue research by collecting samples of tissue / blood samples from theatre and ensure they are delivered to the research laboratory appropriately.
- To collect and return medical notes to the medical records department, including some repetitive lifting and use of trolleys for support.
- To support the department ensuring that all medical stock (eg. Sample bottles, syringes) and in stock are in date.
- To support the delivery team by ordering new medical equipment and stationary.
- Support the delivery team to deliver research both safely and effectively, adhering to the principles of Good Clinical Practice by ensuring all research protocols and standard operating procedures are followed.
- To be able to complete sustained periods of work at an IT station,


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