Job summary
- Main area
- Renal
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months (End date TBC)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-2134
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Research Nurse - Renal
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Research Nurse to join our Renal Research Team. We are looking for a registered nurse with previous NHS experience who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and contributing to research that improves outcomes for people living with kidney disease.
As a Clinical Research Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of a diverse portfolio of commercial and non-commercial research studies. Working closely with Principal Investigators, research colleagues, the multidisciplinary team, and external partners, you will support the coordination and delivery of clinical research while ensuring participants receive safe, compassionate, and patient-centred care throughout their research journey.
The role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong organisational abilities, and the confidence to work autonomously while managing competing priorities. You will be responsible for recruiting and consenting participants, providing education and support, coordinating study visits, performing research-related clinical procedures, administering investigational medicinal products where appropriate, collecting and processing biological samples, and ensuring accurate and timely data collection.
Main duties of the job
- Delivering clinical research studies in accordance with study protocols, regulatory requirements, and Good Clinical Practice standards.
- Identifying, screening, recruiting, and supporting research participants.
- Obtaining informed consent and ensuring participants are fully informed throughout their involvement in research.
- Performing study-related clinical assessments and procedures.
- Administering investigational medicinal products and monitoring participant safety where required.
- Collecting, documenting, and maintaining accurate research data and study records.
- Collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders to facilitate study delivery.
- Promoting research awareness and supporting the integration of research into clinical practice.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in Nursing
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree in research
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at band 5 within a relevant speciality.
- Experience of supervision of junior staff, SLICE or equivalent experience. For specialist areas able to demonstrate specialist knowledge of patient group
- Knowledge of research and audit
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Ability to demonstrate application of the NHS Plan to own sphere of practice.
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
- Medicine experience
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Leadership skills
- Proven teaching and assessing skills
- Ability to apply current research to practice
- Able to manage difficult situations effectively
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Able to use own initiative
- Demonstrates an awareness of the wider NHS service developments
- Excellent level of English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
- large data management and interpretation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dorota Banach
- Job title
- Senior divisional research nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02033137309
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