Imagine if the work you did today could shape how mental health care is delivered tomorrow.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Research and Development (R&D) Team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a rewarding opportunity for a motivated and experienced individual to contribute to the delivery of a diverse portfolio of research studies across the Trust, including commercial clinical trials and NIHR portfolio studies.
As a Band 6 Clinical Research Practitioner, you will play a key role in supporting study set-up, participant recruitment, and study delivery, ensuring all research is conducted to high standards and in compliance with regulatory requirements, including Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 (as amended).
The post holder will work across all sites in the Trust and will support the screening and recruitment of participants into Commercial Clinical Trials and NIHR Portfolio studies. You will act as a patient advocate, ensuring the safety, wellbeing, and informed participation of service users at all times. You will also contribute to the coordination and management of a portfolio of clinical research studies.
In addition, you will provide line management and supervision to identified members of the Research Delivery Team, supporting their development and ensuring effective study delivery.
Working within the Trust, you will use your understanding of clinical services, priorities, and team structures to engage effectively with service users and clinical teams, promoting participation in research. You will act as a key link between research and clinical practice, helping to embed research into routine care.
You will also have opportunities to further develop your research skills and contribute to the Trust’s strategic ambition to build research capacity within the workforce, supporting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Study set-up responsibilities: feasibility support, site set-up activities, delegation logs, essential documents/Investigator Site File (ISF) set-up, Site Initiation Visits (SIV) support, creating/reviewing local processes/SOPs.
- Monitoring/oversight readiness: explicit responsibility for supporting monitoring visits, audits, inspections, addressing findings/Corrective and Preventive Actions, and maintaining inspection-ready Trial Master File (TMF)/ISF.
To interact appropriately with research participants, service users, their carers and relatives, with the ability to convey the goals of the research in a friendly manner, ensuring that any research undertaken 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.
To support the recruitment of participants to research studies in mental health through liaison with local research networks and clinical teams.
To assist in obtaining valid informed consent to take part in research studies, providing complex verbal and written information in the process of explaining study involvement.
To collect research data through standardised assessment measures completed with participants
To maintain Trust records and any trial databases and, ensuring entries are complete, accurate and up to date in accordance with the Trust policies, the protocol and Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
