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Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer
The closing date is 04 February 2026
We are recruiting for a Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Would you like to take the next step in your nursing career and support the delivery of world class health research to improve people's lives?
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) East of England Research Delivery Network, for an Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer to join the team based at the Lister Hospital.
As part of the team you would be working in a range of non-hospital settings (e.g. primary care, community services, care homes, schools) to support and champion health and social care research. The catchment area will be within Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
The focus for this role is to provide support to the delivery and/ or set up of National Institute for Health and Care Research Delivery Network (NIHR RDN) Portfolio studies across varied health and care settings. The role can also involve office based work at times.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The focus for this role is to provide support to the delivery and/ or set up of National Institute for Health and Care Research Delivery Network (NIHR RDN) Portfolio studies across varied health and care settings. This will require flexible autonomous working across disciplines and the Regional RDN (RRDN) region.
This post has a dual function and the post holder will either contribute to research delivery and/ or research support for wider care settings dependent upon regional need. Research delivery will involve the correct identification, recruitment, delivery and follow up for research participants according to the appropriate research protocols.
Research support will involve engaging with stakeholders to promote research activity, site identification, set up and associated governance. The post holder will need interpersonal and leadership skills to facilitate collaborative working relationships across a breadth of stakeholders to maximise engagement opportunities.
This post may contribute to line management for a team of research delivery staff working autonomously in a variety of specialties and settings.
You will be required to travel across the locality and wider throughout the Eastern region.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
* Educated to degree level in science or health related discipline or in another field with experience of delivering clinical research trials or equivalent experience/training.
* CRPs should be on, or working towards accredited registration with the AHCS
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Previous Experience
* Experience of the care of patients/participants enrolled in research studies or a customer focussed role
Skills
* Good IT skills, particularly in the use of Web applications, MS Office and/or Google Hub applications.
* Good planning and organisational skills
* Good interpersonal and communication skills.
* Ability to work autonomously
* Ability to plan and coordinate multidisciplinary activities associated with the management and delivery of research study(ies)
* Understanding of personal accountability
* Ability to travel easily between sites
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the governance and legislative framework for conducting clinical research studies, including ICH Good Clinical Practice
* Knowledge of the clinical trial and health and care research lifecycle including experience of the set up and delivery of research studies in a health and care setting.
* Knowledge and experience of data systems, data entry, data interpretation, verification and reporting to local and national centres.
Other Requirements
* Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
* Role model our Trust values every day
* Team player
* Adaptable/flexible approach to work
* Organised with excellent attention to detail
* Ability to work calmly, effectively and independently under pressure
* Desire to maintain competence level through continuous learning
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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