Assistant Clinical Trial Research Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you enthusiastic, motivated and committed with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and an interest in research?

We are looking for an experienced Health Care Assistant or practitioner to run a glucose monitoring study within the Diabetes Research Unit at Ipswich Hospital. This post holder is going to run the above commercial study with supervision, the successful applicant will be responsible for implementation of the study according to the protocol.

The Research and Development department at ESNEFT hosts a variety of studies such as the NIHR portfolio, locally developed (ESNEFT) & commercial. The research ranges from simple observational studies to interventional clinical trials of investigational medicinal products (CTIMPs.) This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team. For further information please

The post holder will work in the Diabetes centre in a busy clinical setting with other multi-disciplinary teams. He or she needs to have common sense, attention to detail, practical skills, adaptability and a “can do” attitude with an absolute commitment to high standards of care are required. It is essential the post holder is able to work calmly and methodically whatever the surroundings.

The role incorporates both office based data entry and management, and patient facing tasks to provide a Clinical Trials and Research support service, specifically running a glucose monitoring study on behalf of a commercial sponsor in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines. To be responsible for day to day running of this study, with support and supervision from wider team. This includes setting up of study recruitment of patients, implementation of study procedures and processing of and recording of data and samples.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
- To have an understanding that all research must be conducted according to Good Clinical Practice and the Research Governance Guidelines and assist the team in upholding these.
- Develop and maintain effective communications to foster good working relationships with all key stakeholders, internal and external contacts.
- Deal sensitively and appropriately with all communications within the team, the trust, other trusts and external sponsors, Contract Research Organisations and patients.
- To work autonomously to manage, own workload whilst working as part of multi-disciplinary research teams maintaining effective communication with other healthcare professionals to ensure high quality service delivery.
- To facilitate informed consent process ensuring the patient fully understands the nature of the clinical study and the consent form is completed accurately, signed appropriately and fled as required.
- To assist with research visits as directed by study protocols
- Collect and process patient samples as directed by study protocols.
- To maintain accurate documentation of patient events and transfer data collected in to case report forms in both paper and electronic format in a timely manner.
- Ensure recruitment records are accurately maintained.
- Access the computer systems as required, retrieving relevant information.
- Keep all necessary persons regularly informed of progress of study.
- Liaise with clinical trial personnel outside the hospital as needed.
- Provide effective, empathetic, ethical care and communication to patients during their short time of contact with you.
- To proactively utilise and implement all infection control policies within the Trust, ensuring effective use of personal protective equipment, hand washing /decolonisation between patients.
- Maintain accurate systems, databases and spreadsheets to ensure activities and processes in the studies run smoothly and efficiently.
- Ensure timely collection, return and tracking on the Trust Electronic Patient Record system (EPR) of any paper medical notes for all participants so that thes



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