Responsibilities
The Research Delivery Practice Educator will have responsibility for enhancing the research delivery skills and clinical competence of the NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) Agile Research Delivery Team. This will include providing relevant research education and, where necessary, improving research and clinical skills for research delivery staff. This role also involves working with and supporting research delivery partners to determine skills gaps to be addressed through design of their own research education and clinical skills training programmes where development of this may be required. This role is part of the RRDN Workforce Development function. Provide highly specialist advice on all aspects of the research process and research delivery practice, including expectations of clinical skills and required competencies across research delivery settings. Actively contribute to a culture of continuous improvement (CI) across the network in support of utilising shared CI methodologies to facilitate a learning organisation that meets measures of organisational maturity. Enable, where appropriate, collaboration with the Life Sciences industry in the development of the research delivery workforce within new sites and increasing capacity and capability to deliver a range of studies, Working with the Workforce and People Senior Manager, proactively contribute to and inform the regional delivery of the RDN Workforce strategy to support the strategic, system-wide development of the research delivery workforce across a broad range of roles, specialties and settings Working with the Agile Research Delivery Team leaders and managers, provide effective leadership in training delivery/facilitation skills and act as a role model, to thus motivate, support and enable the evolution of the Agile Research. Responsible for the delivery of a quality assurance and improvement programme for learning and development programmes, including measuring activities against quality standards through the collection, analysis and reporting of appropriate data, including recommendations for change across multiple services or sites.
* Lead and effectively manage the provision of research delivery practice education and clinical skills improvement to ensure capability of the Agile Research Delivery Team.
* Work with all relevant stakeholders.
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