Research Nurse - Oncology | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust in Stevenage

We are recruiting for Research Nurses who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. Would you like to take the next step in your nursing career and support the delivery of world class health research to improve people’s lives? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Research Nursing team, based at the Lister Hospital.

The role is people focused involving:

• Recruiting participants into a wide range of research studies.
• Receiving informed consent.
• Conducting study procedures and the collection of baseline and follow up data in accordance with ICH GCP.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Key responsibilities include:

• Screening & identifying patients eligible for clinical trials and maintaining detailed knowledge of the protocols for the clinical trials associated with the designated site-specific groups.
• Providing verbal and written information and offering support to patients and carers for the duration of their involvement in a clinical trial.
• Assisting in the informed consent process, receiving informed consent where appropriate.
• Being a point of contact for patients and carers for the duration of their involvement in a clinical trial.
• With appropriate training, taking and processing clinical samples (e.g. blood samples) for studies, co-coordinating tissue sample collection and dispatch to relevant department or trial centre as appropriate.
• Assisting in the provision of background information about potential clinical trials to obtain approvals from Research Governance and Local Ethics Committees.
• Working in conjunction with research clinicians, nurses, pharmacists and other support staff within the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
• Participating in the informed consent process, CRF completion, safety reporting, protocol compliance, monitoring and auditing of clinical trials.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.