Job summary
- Main area
- Research
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 156-7421130
- Employer
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Cornwall Hospital
- Town
- Truro
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Research Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Research & Development Directorate to join us as a Senior Research Nurse working on our exciting Haematology research study portfolio.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for delivering and clinically managing your own portfolio of academic and commercial research studies in these specialty areas and also providing expert research support to investigators. This post will enable you to gain clinical knowledge and skills around a variety of conditions through working closely with the consultants and specialist nurses and multi-disciplinary teams.
Working for our organisation
Research Department
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has a well-established research infrastructure running in excess of 300 studies across many specialities across the three Trust sites and also provides an outreach research service into the community. The growth in our research, development and innovation culture within the Trust has seen a year on year increase in the number of studies being carried out, bringing equality of research opportunities to our local population. As a department we see research as key in developing and innovating safe and effective care for patients and the research teams are at the forefront of this process.
Although your main focus will be within the mentioned specialties, you will be joining a wider dynamic team of over 100 research staff who, across the acute and community sectors recruited in excess of 4000 patients in Cornwall in the last financial year. Each year we aim to expand our portfolio to open studies in areas within the Trust that are new to research, increase our local research portfolio and attract further research to our sites.
If you think you could fulfil this position and wish to become part of this dynamic team, we would like to hear from you.
This is a full time post working 37.5 hours per week.
Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Work health assessments
- Criminal record check standards
- Right to work checks
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Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.
We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/AHP with medicines management.
- Educated to degree (relevant subject) or specialist equivalent/ demonstrable experience
- ICH-GCP certificate or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Teaching / mentorship qualification
- Masters level study or working towards Masters
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience
- Research trials experience to include commercial and academic clinical trial experience.
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Audit experience
- Evidence of self directed development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good computer literacy including email and internet
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage own time and workload with minimal supervision
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of IT databases
- An interest in developing your own research
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
- Keren Menear
- Job title
- Research Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01872 25 6420
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