Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
The postholder will play a key role in ensuring that any research supported by the Network safeguards the well-being of the patients and is conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004 and Amended Regulations 2006. In conjunction with the other members of the team, they will facilitate the production of good quality of research.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will support the recruitment and follow up of patients to ensure the successful
working of the clinical research projects that they are assigned to. They will also act as a
patient advocate providing support and assistance as required and assist in the execution,
co-ordination and management of local initiatives and schemes.
The post holder will be required to work on studies across all research active specialities
across all Lewisham Greenwich NHS Trust sites.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Work with the R&D Delivery Manager to set, update and review workplans • Recruitment of participant into clinical trials • Develop relationships with staff in Service Support departments • Set up and maintained of site Masterfile • Identify patients suitable for entry into trials • Ensure patients are fully informed prior to entry into clinical trial • Assist in consenting, randomising and follow up of patients. • Collection, storage and shipment of biological samples • Completion of Case Report Forms • Assisting investigators in the completion of CRFs, the resolution of data queries and archiving • Ensure the study recruitment figures are reported onto the EDGE database • Meeting national R&D standards including the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Information Governance, Data Protection Act etc; • Prioritise patient safety and the well-being • Represent Research & Development at meetings with internal and external stakeholders • Monitor trial recruitment and implement suitable interventions for under-recruiting studies • Ensure that patient data is protected • Support the R&D Delivery Manager in investigating any concerns around the conduct of clinical trials and escalating as appropriate • Proactively seek out barriers to recruitment to studies and develop suitable interventions • Promote Patient Public Involvement in clinical research • Help grow the portfolio • Maintain own self development
Person specification
Essential criteria
6. Experience
7. Experience of working with service users and/or in a patient facing role
Desirable criteria
8. Phlebotomy skills
9. Experience of working with NHS patient database systems
10. Experience of working in a research role
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
11. Educated to degree level in a health related or social sciences discipline
12. Newly qualified nurse
Desirable criteria
13. Clinical Research qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. Excellent computer skills: understanding of MS Office, data management, internet explorer and web based database systems
Desirable criteria
15. Familiar with GCP guidelines and Research Governance Framework
16. Knowledge of research methodologies
17. Site file management
personal qualities
Essential criteria
18. Flexible approach towards teamwork and patient/family involvement
19. Able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills
20. Ability to manage time and workload in an unpredictable environment
21. Professional and accountable
22. Ability to quickly integrate into new teams
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
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.