Job summary
- Main area
- Administrative and Clerical
- Grade
- AfC Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-AR-EMF19724
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Canterbury & Rochester tbc
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £29,812 - £32,715 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Agile Research Delivery Team Assistant Clinical Band 4
AfC Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen.
Working across Secondary, Primary, and Wider Care settings, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of a diverse portfolio of Commercial and Non-Commercial research studies and clinical trials across the South East Research Delivery Network.
Previous research experience is not essential, full training, supervision, and ongoing professional development will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a healthcare background who is eager to start or build a career in research.
You’ll work as part of a flexible, multidisciplinary team, supporting the set up and delivery of studies across multiple organisations and care environments, helping to make high quality research accessible to patients and participants across the region.
The post is hosted by Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, with an operational base in Kent. This area forms one of three sub-regions within the South East Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN). While your primary focus will be supporting research delivery across Kent, there may be occasions where you will contribute to activities in Surrey and Sussex to support wider network priorities and ensure flexible study delivery across the region.
As this role involves travel across multiple sites, access to a car and a full driving licence are essential. Travel expenses will be reimbursed in line with the Trust’s expenses policy.
Main duties of the job
The focus for this role is for the post holder to work closely with and support Research Nurses/ CRPs/ AHPs/ Research Facilitators in the delivery of National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Portfolio studies across varied health and care settings. This will require flexible working across disciplines and the Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) region and will involve the correct identification, recruitment, delivery and follow up for research participants according to the appropriate research protocols. The post holder will need good interpersonal skills to facilitate collaborative working relationships across a breadth of stakeholders. The role will support different professions from multiple organisations involved in health and care research and will be an integral part of the Agile Research Delivery Team which sits within the RRDN core team. The post holder will be accountable to the Agile Research Delivery Nurse/ CRP/ AHP/ Facilitator.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job description & person Spec
re you ready to take on a new and exciting challenge?
Do you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy working across a variety of healthcare settings?
As part of an innovative plan to transform the support for health-related research across the region, the South
East Regional Research Delivery Network (SE RRDN) is recruiting an Assistant Research Practitioner to their
Kent-based delivery team.
We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated health research professional who will be a key member of the SE
RRDN Agile Research Delivery Team (ARDT), supporting and delivering NIHR Portfolio research projects
across community, residential, primary care, hospital and wider care settings. You will play a key role in
supporting the delivery of a diverse portfolio of Commercial and Non-Commercial research studies and clinical
trials across the SE RRDN. The emphasis will be ‘one team, one workforce’, that will deliver high quality and
new types of research across the whole of Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
You’ll work as part of a flexible, multidisciplinary team, supporting the set up and delivery of studies across
multiple organisations and care environments, helping to make high quality research accessible to patients and
participants across the region.
Previous research experience is not essential, full training, supervision, and ongoing professional development
will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong healthcare background who is eager
to start or build a career in research.
As this role involves travel across multiple sites, access to a car and a full driving licence are essential. Travel
expenses will be reimbursed in line with the Trust’s expenses policy. In addition, while your primary focus will be
supporting research delivery across Kent, there may be occasions where you will contribute to activities in
Surrey and Sussex to support wider network priorities and ensure flexible study delivery across the region.
If you’re passionate about improving healthcare through research and want to be part of a supportive, forward
thinking team that works flexibly across care settings, we encourage you to apply.
Key Responsibilities Include:
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INFORMATION & ADMINISTRATION ● Where appropriate and in line with training competencies the post holder may be required to support aspects of study delivery including; screening, recruitment, consent, follow ups, data management, sample collection and processing as required, across all specialties and settings. ● Provide general administrative support to a portfolio of trials/studies, including filing, typing, fielding telephone calls, ordering patient notes and retrieving patient test results via hospital/primary care IT systems. ● Supporting Agile Research Delivery Team roles with general administration related to study delivery tasks, data management and staff recruitment/development processes. ● Utilise the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Hub (including Gmail and Google Drive) and other information systems (e.g. spreadsheets) as required. ● Contribute to administrative oversight of the regional Local Portfolio Management System (LMPS).Support the effective communication of complex research study information with all relevant research personnel and research participants. ● Support Research Nurses/ CRPs/ AHPs in performing and recording a range of participant assessments and physiological measurements required, according to personal competencies and the study protocol. This may include, but not be limited to; venepuncture, blood pressure, urinalysis, weight and height. ● Be aware of and identify to senior team members any serious adverse events and incidents according to regulatory and trust requirements. ● Using appropriate manual and computerised systems, ensure accurate collection and maintenance of all research records and results, ensuring that all data can be verified. ● Provide timely information to reflect recruitment of patients to support timely entry to Local Project Management Systems (LPMS). ● Support the research teams in preparing trial/study documentation for monitoring visits.
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT ● Where appropriate and in line with training competencies the post holder may be required to support aspects of study delivery and administration including; screening, recruitment, consent, follow ups, data management, sample collection and processing as required, across all specialties and settings. Support Agile Research Delivery team members in delivering and supporting multiple concurrent projects and research sites, requiring flexibility and adjustment according to demand.
● Make arrangements for pathological samples, radiological films and electronic data to be sent for central review. ● The post holder works with autonomy, under the supervision of a statutory registered professional to support study delivery across a range of specialties and settings. ● Will seek advice from colleagues when knowledge required falls outside of own boundaries. ● Will report and escalate as per trust policy when areas of unsafe practice or clinical incidents occur.
COMMUNICATION & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT (NHS AND NON-NHS) ● Maintain strong and effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders and partners. ● Act as the main point of contact where agreed for all queries regarding specific studies. ● Ability to form strong working relationships with patients, participants, carers and members of the public and convey study related information as appropriate and within the boundaries of professional responsibilities. ● Attend regular team meetings and contribute as appropriate.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to A level or equivalent.
- NVQ3/foundation degree in a Healthcare related subject or working towards.
Desirable criteria
- Completed or working towards a Care Certificate.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Developing knowledge of the governance and legislative framework for conducting clinical research studies, including ICH Good Clinical Practice.
- Developing knowledge of the clinical trial and health and care research lifecycle including some experience of the set up of clinical research studies in a health or care setting.
- Demonstrable experience of data management/administration - preferably in a health or care setting.
- Computer literate with some experience of the use of Web applications, Microsoft Office and/or Google Hub applications.
- An understanding of confidentiality issues.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the care of patients/participants enrolled in research studies.
- Knowledge of case note tracking, computerised patient administrative systems.
- Phlebotomy experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Thaunja Weerasingher
- Job title
- Team Senior Manager Agile Research
- Email address
- [email protected]
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