Research Assistant

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**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 to our long COVID portfolio of research including the Locomotion study.**

Working alongside a team of research nurses and clinicians, the post-holder will support research activity both within the hospital and community settings predominantly, but not exclusively, at long COVID patient clinics.

**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 delivery skills. You should be organised, be 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.You will support research activity within the long COVID portfolio of clinical trials, supporting robust data collection and inputting alongside trial-related activities.

50% of your time will support and monitor the recruitment and retention of participants in the ‘LOCOMOTION’ study, a long covid study currently on-going. The successful post holder will explain the study to prospective participants, seek informed consent, support enrolled patients taking part in LOCOMOTION and support associated administrative duties. The other 50% of your time will be working as part of the Research for the Future (RftF) team helping to support Long Covid related research campaign

There may be an expectation that the post holder would undertake training in specific trial-related procedures such as venepuncture and processing of research samples, however, training would be provided for this.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

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

- A-Level, Diploma, NVQ3 or equivalent
- Computer literacy, ECDL or equivalent qualification or experience
- Experience of administrative work including data management
- Evidence of good communication skills
- Evidence of good organisational skills
- Experience of working under tight/unexpected deadlines
- Ability to travel within geographical location/car driver

**Desirable criteria**:

- Evidence of ICH-GCP training
- Graduate degree
- Experience of working within a healthcare system

**A-Level, Diploma, NVQ3 or equivalent**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Academic qualifiation

**COVID-19 Vaccination Information**
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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
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