About this role
Job summary
The Clinical Research Team Leader plays a pivotal role in leading, coordinating, and advancing a high-quality portfolio of clinical research across the service. The post-holder will provide expert operational and clinical leadership to ensure that all studies are delivered safely, ethically, and efficiently, in full alignment with regulatory requirements, Good Clinical Practice, and Trust policy. As a visible and supportive leader, the post-holder will foster a positive research culture, champion participant-centred care, develop team capability, and drive continuous improvement to support the growth and excellence of research activity at NUH.
Main duties of the job
Demonstrate strong research-specific skills to ensure the safe, effective, and compliant delivery of clinical studies across the service.
Expert knowledge of research governance and regulation including Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ethical frameworks, MHRA/HRA requirements, GDPR, and Trust research policies, ensuring all studies are delivered to the highest legal and professional standards.
Study feasibility and portfolio management oversight including assessment of deliverability, resource needs, patient population, suitability and capacity planning.
Risk identification and mitigation ability to recognise operational, clinical, and data-related risks within studies and implement proactive strategies to maintain patient/participant safety, protocol compliance and study integrity.
Lead, co-ordinate and be accountable for the delivery of research studies and management of patient/participant care, ensuring safe staffing levels and effective use of resources.
Ensure concerns raised by patients, participants and their families are dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, quickly and effectively, in line with Trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation.
About us
Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives, and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.
With more than 20,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond. Our Trust spans over three sites including Queen's Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House.
We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services, and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes.
We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.
This is an exciting time to join NUH and help support our future ambitions.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description for full details
Risk identification and mitigation ability to recognise operational, clinical, and datarelated risks within studies and implement proactive strategies to maintain patient/participant safety, protocol compliance and study integrity.
Performance monitoring and improvement close tracking of recruitment, follow-ups, milestones and KPIs. Also includes ability to analyse performance data and take actions to optimise study delivery.
Participantcentred research practice ensuring highquality informed consent processes, clear communication of complex information, and a positive, safe experience for all research participants.
Safety reporting and oversight ability to support investigators with adverse event recognition, documentation, and reporting in line with governance/regulatory timelines and sponsor requirements.
Safety reporting and oversight ability to support investigators with adverse event recognition, documentation, and reporting in line with governance/regulatory timelines and sponsor requirements.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications Essential
Professional knowledge acquired through obtaining a degree (BSc Hons in Nursing/health related studies), supplemented by clinical experience. Evidence of training undertaken in research governance and regulations, for example, Good Clinical Practice and the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research. Evidence of leadership and management training.
Experience Essential
Extensive experience of clinical research delivery within the NHS setting including an understanding of research governance legislation and regulations Recent clinical experience including ability to undertake venepuncture and cannulation. Ability to manage a broad portfolio of trials. Line management/appraisals experience within the NHS including identifying/reporting staff needs.
Communication Essential
Demonstrate negotiation and influencing skills. Team player who can initiate, delegate and complete projects. Demonstrate self-awareness and understanding of personal accountability. Able to support colleagues, patients/participants and relatives/carers in distressing circumstances.
Physical Skills Essential
Demonstrate competence and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, using equipment and documentation Confident in the use of a range of software programmes. Competent and capable of using medical equipment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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Employer details Employer name Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Address Queen's Medical Centre
Derby Road
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)