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Job summary

Main area
Research & Development
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0475
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Regis Road
Town
London
Salary
£46,419 - £55,046 Per annum (including Inner HCAS)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/12/2025 23:59

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Clinical Research Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

We are looking for an Band 6 Clinical Research Practitioner (CRP) who will be supporting the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) Research & Development Delivery Team, in the day-to-day delivery of the mental health and neurological disorders studies, and meeting the needs of the trusts’ R&D remit and vision, in line with NIHR objectives. The post holder will contribute to the successful delivery of specialty-specific national and local objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) regarding increasing recruitment to research studies across NLFT. 

You will have a excellent understanding and practical experience research delivery, and excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate and work effectively with people at all levels across a range of organisations.

You should have experience of working with people receiving healthcare for mental health, dementia and neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.  You should be well organized and skilled in time management with ability to meet tight deadlines and also work with several projects simultaneously.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will assist in delivering on CRN North Thames performance metrics and objectives regarding recruitment to Divisional research studies for NLFT

Recruit research participants to RRDN North Thames portfolio of studies mainly focusing on Mental Health, Dementia and Neurodegenerative disorder, and Neurological studies.

Assist with the timely set-up of portfolio studies, including supporting feasibility, governance processes, identifying potential participants, discussing research with potential participants, taking consent and problem-solving to ensure performance targets are met.  Working flexibly across NLFT, to meet the needs of the trusts research activity with the main aim to increase recruitment to portfolio studies at both trusts.

 Work with the Research Delivery Managers to increase opportunities for trust employees and service users to participate in relevant research, and ensure the dissemination of results to relevant clinical teams and service user groups..

To maintain close links with health care services and departments across the CRN North Thames, as well as with R&D departments (and their delivery staff and study teams), overseen by Noclor. 

To actively promote research amongst trust staff, service users, carers, relatives and the public.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1.     We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2.       With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3.       We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 

 

Why NLFT?

·       We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

·       We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

·       NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

·       Excellent internal staff network

 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed description of the Clinical Research Practitioner‘s role and its essential and desirable requirements are provided in the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential criteria
  • First degree (in Psychology or health related field), or relevant experience in a research setting
Desirable criteria
  • MSc in Psychology or other health related field
  • Good Clinical Practice certificate

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Good knowledge of the principles of research
  • Experience of working with people receiving healthcare for mental health, dementia and neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.
  • Ability to analyse and rationalise research information and make complex decisions.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing projects
  • Experience in supervising junior members of staff

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate and work effectively with people at all levels across a range of organisations.
  • Desire to facilitate and support investigators with their research studies, maintaining a problem solving and customer-focused approach.
  • Ability to work on own initiative, making decisions and using organisational and time management skills to meet tight deadlines
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to analyse facts or situations, investigating a variety of issues and proposing solutions; dealing with complex enquiries.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

Applicant requirements

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tom Freeth
Job title
Research Delivery Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8702 3556
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