Senior Clinical Trials Administrator in Cambridge

Main area: Research and Development

Grade Band: 5

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Full Time or Part Time/Flexible working hours may be considered)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered)

Job ref: 180-RD-CVA513

Employer: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Site: Addenbrookes Hospital-Division R&D

Town: Cambridge

Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 p.a. pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/02/2026 23:59

Job overview:

• Be solely responsible for a portfolio of clinical trials, managing individual trial set up processes, from initiation to completion, in a timely and efficient manner.
• Be an integral part of the clinical trials team, ensuring trials are opened to a robust timeframe enabling novel treatments to be available to patients.

Main duties of the job:

• To operate autonomously to process applications to all relevant bodies to obtain regulatory and ethical approvals for clinical research protocols, including those which have been developed locally (includes MHRA, NRES, Trust R&D).
• Liaise with study clinicians and research nurses to ensure compliance with local SOP’s and to ensure new research protocols are produced and submitted as planned by PI.
• Taking responsibility for a portfolio of trials ensuring processes are followed and tracked and checked, to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Working for our organisation:

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds, the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy will close on the 16th February 2026. Interviews are due to be held on the 24th February 2026.

Benefits to you:

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in relevant subject Service/ Business Admin /ITQ or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in administration processes / data management.

Experience:

• In depth current knowledge and experience of the setting up process of cancer clinical trials.
• Experience of data collection within a scientific or medical environment.
• Experience of using clinical trials database.
• Prioritising, planning and organising own tasks.
• Experience of working autonomously within guidelines and to tight deadlines.
• Experience of using own initiative and working independently.
• Experience of working across the MDT.
• Experience of liaising with external agencies.
• Experience of audit.
• Participation in site initiation visits.
• Training other members of staff.

Knowledge:

• Sound understanding of ethical and quality standards applicable to clinical trials, including EU directive, ICH GCP.
• GCP trained.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection.
• Interrogation of database to produce relevant reports.

Skills:

• Ability to work in a team.
• Good communication skills including telephone, email, face to face.
• Willing to take on/learn new skills.
• Good attention to detail and proven accuracy.
• Ability to adapt to change.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to store and safeguard confidential documents.
• Ability to extract, analyse and interpret clinical information for trials/research purposes.

Additional Requirements:

The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.