Job Description
Senior Research Nurse
No weekend work or night shifts.
York
We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and motivated Research Nurse to join our site in York!
Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.
We put the patient at the heart of everything we do to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers and participants. Accelerating clinical breakthrough for our customers, our patients, and for future generations.
Job Summary
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that nursing activities, related to clinical trials across a wide and diverse range of therapeutic areas, are undertaken following Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines and as per Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP). You will work alongside the wider clinical research team in the assessment and management of patient care pathways. This will involve recruitment, education, monitoring of research participants and the collection and documentation of accurate data.
As a skilled communicator, the successful candidate, must also possess excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills and be able to act as an ambassador for promoting research utilisation and best practice.
The normal working hours for the post are Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm, although the post holder may need to be flexible to accommodate patient visits and assessments outside of these hours when required.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage nursing activities relating to clinical trials from the start up on a trial to the close out, working to ICH/GCP guidelines
- Attend site initiation visits (SIV) for any new study and keep up to date with any changes with the study protocols
- Perform PIV patient interest visits (chats) effectively with knowledge and understanding of the study protocol
- Keep patients engaged with the study at each visit to optimize patient retention
- Collecting records, verifying, and entering study data into the source notes, CRF/eCRF and all associated paperwork with a high degree of accuracy
- Promoting and nurturing a welcoming, professional and pleasant environment for staff and participants
- Ensuring that all data queries are acted upon in a timely and efficient manner
- Initiating any emergency reaction when required at site for patients or staff
- Review and regularly check the emergency trolley
- To be able to perform laboratory duties on each study if required
- Always work in compliance of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- To keep up to date with all training, ongoing SOPs/COPs and regulatory standards
Ideal Candidate
- NMC Registration with no limitations to practice
- 2+ years post registration experience
- Clinical research experience
- Ability to work in a team within a multidisciplinary environment with minimal supervision
- A patient focused attitude
- Self-motivated and excellent organisational skills
Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation. This means we’re opening new ways to work, ground-breaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together
Interested? Come and join our journey!
Panthera Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. Panthera will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. Panthera only employs individuals with the right to work in the country where the role is advertised.