Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site LUHFT Town Liverpool Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/11/2025 23:59
Research Matron
Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated senior research nurse to join the senior leadership team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Research Matron you will oversee a wide range of specialities and studies conducting in‑patient, outpatient and healthy participant research within the medicine portfolio at LUHFT.
You will work closely with the Assistant Director of Research to meet delivery targets. You will be supported by other senior R&I managers and matrons.
You will have proven leadership skills and demonstrable experience in line managing staff. You will need excellent project management skills and you must be able to troubleshoot, problem‑solve and be creative.
Main duties of the job
You will provide day‑to‑day operational leadership and management for our team of research staff within the surgical portfolio, in the delivery and oversight of their speciality portfolios and their individual teams of Research Nurses, Research Practitioners, Research Assistants and various research support staff.
The Trust has 3 sites with 4 hospitals, Aintree, the Royal, Broadgreen and the Dental hospital. The Matron for Research will have responsibility for the Aintree and Royal site, with the flexibility to work across all areas.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
The Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provision of professional leadership, motivation and supervision to ensure high standards of patient care throughout the research process.
Responsible for the set‑up, co‑ordination and implementation of clinical studies in the relevant clinical areas within the Trust and other participating NHS sites.
To ensure that all clinical research studies are conducted to a very high standard in accordance with the Research Governance Framework, ensuring the dignity, rights, safety and wellbeing of participants are respected at all times.
Responsible for the continuous monitoring to ensure each of the studies are conducted to a high standard with efficient and effective patient recruitment in accordance with study timelines.
Establish relationships with potential collaborators within NHS Trusts nationally, and facilitate the process of approval, initiation and conduction of projects within these sites.
To carry out clinical procedures and treatment interventions according to pre‑determined protocols, including clinical examination of patients, venepuncture, venous cannulation, vital signs and ECG recording/interpretation.
Comprehensive knowledge of clinical research including issues on ethics, law, drug development and management in clinical research.
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
Person specification
Qualifications
* RGN
* Post graduate qualification in Nursing or Research
* Degree in Healthcare related field
* Holds a relevant teaching and assessing qualification
* Attendance of recent short courses and/or study days on research
* Clinical Examination course
Experience
* Extensive experience in research
* Evidence of experience in effective management and leadership
* Experience of developing and working within multi-disciplinary teams and cross organisational working
* Experience of managing project specific change
* Supervision of teams/staff and appraisal and interviewing skills
* Previous experience within the research specialty
* Clinical experience/qualification in venepuncture, IV cannulation and interpretation of investigations
* Demonstrable experience as an assessor
* Experience of liaison with staff at all levels in the NHS, Universities, Government funding bodies and Industry
* Experience of patient education and counselling e.g. providing lifestyle advice
* Teaching/training experience
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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work‑life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under‑represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero‑tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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