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Job summary

Main area
Research
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
12 months ((fixed term or secondment))
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
407-CORP-7892984
Employer
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Walsall Manor Hospital
Town
Walsall
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/07/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Research Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Walsall Manor Hospital is a busy district general hospital offering compete range of acute services. The Trust primarily serves the immediate population of Walsall with some patients requiring more specialised treatment at other, neighbouring Trusts. The Trust continues to invest in its facilities and services, supporting high-quality care for the communities it serves.

 

This role offers the opportunity to work within our integrated care model, contributing to high-quality services that help people remain independent in their own homes and communities.

 

We are committed to investing in our workforce and creating an environment where colleagues can learn, contribute and develop. Our new Urgent Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, demonstrates our ongoing investment in facilities and services.

 

As an employee, you’ll benefit from an attractive salary and comprehensive benefits package (detailed in Employer Description above), plus access to NHS pension arrangements and staff accommodation where available.

 

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant, currently holding the Bronze Award, underlining our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces Community.

 

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Job overview

Are you passionate about advancing healthcare through research? Join our dynamic clinical trials team as a Clinical Research Nurse and play a vital role in delivering cutting-edge studies that shape the future of patient care.

PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.

Main duties of the job

What you'll do:

  • Support the setup, coordination, and delivery of clinical research studies
  • Recruit and consent participants, ensuring ethical and regulatory compliance
  • Collect and manage high-quality data in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
  • Act as a key liaison between patients, clinicians, and research staff

Working for our organisation

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What we're looking for:

  • Experience in a clinical or research setting
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills
  • A keen eye for detail and commitment to patient safety
  • Enthusiasm for learning and professional development

Whether you're looking to grow your research career or bring clinical experience into a new environment, we’ll support your journey.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered nurse/midwife with current NMC registration
Desirable criteria
  • ICH GCP trained
  • Specialist nursing qualification or documented training

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience as a qualified registered nurse within an NHS or care setting
  • Aware of health & safety
  • Experience of working in a research environment
  • Able to work autonomously
  • Able to work within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
  • Teaching, coaching and mentoring

Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Competent with clinical skills such as phlebotomy, clinical observations and ECG recording
  • Proficient in using the EDGE portfolio management system
  • Able to conduct informed consent discussions with patients
  • Competent in taking a study through set up from a clinical perspective
  • Fluent in the use of the NIHR feasibility portal, and actively engages with clinicians to submit Expression of Interests
  • Can accurately record prompt data entry and query resolution using a range of study databases including: RedCap, Veeva, Medidata, Inform.
  • Demonstrates the ability to identify study protocol requirements and schedule of events and can ensure patients are followed up appropriately
Desirable criteria
  • Able to perform laboratory sample processing, including centrifugation, aliquoting and shipment packaging

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of time management skills
  • Organisational skills
  • IT skills
  • Able to perform clinical skills specific to clinical trials
  • Excellent verbal communications skills
  • Able to communicate medical information to patients, relatives, staff and others in an understandable form
  • Possess excellent record keeping skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Document data accurately
  • Good counselling skills

Flexibility

Essential criteria
  • • Flexible and adaptable to meet the differing demands of research projects
  • • Ability to meet deadlines, irrespective of workload, requiring lateral thinking and flexibility
  • • Able to be flexible to work to the demands of the research project, principle investigator, clinicians and patients
  • • Adapts research protocols to site specific requirements enabling the research project can be performed in accordance to trial specification

Other

Essential criteria
  • Assist in the management of patients and the service to ensure clinical effectiveness
  • Supports clinical governance in relation to R&D throughout the Trust

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ben Jones
Job title
Lead Research Practitioner
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01922721172
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