Salary: £13.80 to £15.93 an hour (dependent on experience)
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 1 year
Working pattern: Part-time
Location: Brooklea Health Centre, Wick Road, Bristol, BS4 4HU; Riverside Surgery, Wyatts View, St. Annes Park, Bristol, BS4 4WW
Job Summary
Nightingale Valley Practice (NVP) is recruiting a research coordinator to support our academic and emerging commercial research delivery. The role involves coordinating study activities, acting as the primary point of contact for sponsors and participants, and ensuring research compliance and documentation is maintained accurately.
Responsibilities
* Assimilate study protocols and coordinate the wider research team's efforts by scheduling and delegating tasks.
* Conduct searches on the EMIS platform to identify potential study participants.
* Contribute to the delivery of individual studies, including acting as a contact point for participants, assisting with data collection, and completing other tasks as necessary under the direction of the Principal Investigator, sub-investigator or nurse lead.
* Ensure research equipment is maintained and calibrated in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, and track capacity of storage requirements.
* Organise wider logistical elements of study delivery including monitoring, restocking and disposal of consumables.
* Create and maintain databases and trackers to ensure efficient scheduling and running of patient visits, and administrative tasks including expense claims.
* Support the wider team to organise and deliver site visits including preparation of consumables, processing, storage and onward shipping of study samples.
* Support research team members to maintain sponsor IT platform access as needed.
* Track and manage financial claims with the NIHR's South West Central Regional Research Delivery Network, and commercial sponsors.
* Act as administrator for the research team's activities including calendar management and scheduling of meetings, participant visits, and sponsor visits.
* Ensure documentation is accurate, organised and auditable at all times, and archived in accordance with regulations.
* Contribute to study documentation and notes to files as needed.
* Act as the central point of contact for internal and external queries.
* Respond promptly and effectively to queries from the wider research team, study sponsors, NIHR contacts, and regulatory bodies.
* Facilitate sponsor site visits, ensuring appropriate response to data queries, collation of adverse event reports, and preparation for data locks.
* Develop and maintain the public-facing profile of the organisation's research activities including maintaining an up-to-date and accurate profile of the studies we collaborate with and opportunities for participation.
* Work with the PCN's Community Engagement Lead to identify opportunities to widen research participation in historically less well-represented demographic groups.
* Compile regular reports on the team's research activity for presentation to the practice's partners and management team.
* Contribute to the oversight of the team's compliance with regulatory responsibilities and specific protocol requirements.
* Contribute to security in data handling so it meets sponsor and regulatory requirements throughout the study lifecycle.
* Assist the wider team with equipment monitoring activities including temperature checks.
* Contribute to the development of policies, protocols and standard operating procedures that ensure compliant, standardised activity across the research team.
* Oversee maintenance of up-to-date training logs, delegation logs and staff records including GCP training and research CVs, for all members of the research team across all research activities.
* Participate in ongoing training and development to keep an up-to-date knowledge of regulatory responsibilities and best practice.
Qualifications
Higher education achievement in health sciences, public health, business administration or equivalent experience.
Skills and attributes
* Demonstrable organisation and time-management skills.
* High degree of self-motivation and the ability to exercise initiative when working with relative autonomy.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to be concise and precise but also amiable and able to quickly form constructive working relationships.
* Integrity and reliability in all actions.
* Proficiency in using applications of the Microsoft Office Suite.
Desirable skills and attributes
* Proficiency in using EMIS and other research specific software platforms.
* Experience using artificial intelligence in practice to improve workflow processes.
Experience
* Experience working in research delivery in any setting.
* Experience working in the delivery of academic and commercial research in a primary care setting.
* Experience acting in a coordinator role for the delivery of healthcare research.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service is required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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