Research Nurse in Walsall

Walsall Manor Hospital is a busy district general hospital offering a complete range of acute services. The Trust primarily serves the immediate population of Walsall with some patients requiring more specialised treatment at other, neighbouring Trusts. The Trust continues to invest in its facilities and services, supporting high-quality care for the communities it serves. This role offers the opportunity to work within our integrated care model, contributing to high-quality services that help people remain independent in their own homes and communities. We are committed to investing in our workforce and creating an environment where colleagues can learn, contribute and develop.

Our new Urgent Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, demonstrates our ongoing investment in facilities and services. As an employee, you’ll benefit from an attractive salary and comprehensive benefits package, plus access to NHS pension arrangements and staff accommodation where available. Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant, currently holding the Bronze Award, underlining our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces Community.

Job overview

Are you passionate about advancing healthcare through research? Join our dynamic clinical trials team as a Clinical Research Nurse and play a vital role in delivering cutting‑edge studies that shape the future of patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Support the setup, coordination, and delivery of clinical research studies
• Recruit and consent participants, ensuring ethical and regulatory compliance
• Collect and manage high-quality data in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
• Act as a key liaison between patients, clinicians, and research staff

What we're looking for:

• Experience in a clinical or research setting
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• A keen eye for detail and commitment to patient safety
• Enthusiasm for learning and professional development

Qualifications

• Registered nurse/midwife with current NMC registration
• ICH GCP trained
• Specialist nursing qualification or documented training

Knowledge & Experience

• Extensive experience as a qualified registered nurse within an NHS or care setting
• Aware of health & safety
• Experience of working in a research environment
• Able to work autonomously
• Able to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Teaching, coaching and mentoring
• Competent with clinical skills such as phlebotomy, clinical observations and ECG recording
• Proficient in using the EDGE portfolio management system
• Able to conduct informed consent discussions with patients
• Competent in taking a study through set up from a clinical perspective
• Fluent in the use of the NIHR feasibility portal, and actively engages with clinicians to submit Expression of Interests
• Can accurately record prompt data entry and query resolution using a range of study databases including: RedCap, Veeva, Medidata, Inform
• Demonstrates the ability to identify study protocol requirements and schedule of events and can ensure patients are followed up appropriately
• Able to perform laboratory sample processing, including centrifugation, aliquoting and shipment packaging

Skills and Aptitudes

• Evidence of time management skills
• Organisational skills
• Able to perform clinical skills specific to clinical trials
• Excellent verbal communications skills
• Able to communicate medical information to patients, relatives, staff and others in an understandable form
• Possess excellent record keeping skills
• Good counselling skills

Flexibility

• Flexible and adaptable to meet the differing demands of research projects
• Ability to meet deadlines, irrespective of workload, requiring lateral thinking and flexibility
• Able to be flexible to work to the demands of the research project, principle investigator, clinicians and patients
• Adapts research protocols to site specific requirements enabling the research project can be performed in accordance to trial specification

Other

• Assist in the management of patients and the service to ensure clinical effectiveness
• Supports clinical governance in relation to R&D throughout the Trust

Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to the internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.

Sponsorship and Visas

We welcome applications from all candidates with the right to work in the UK, including those on Health and Care Visas, Graduate Visas, or other valid permissions. All candidates will be considered on equal terms. This Trust currently recruits successfully from the domestic labour market and has a sufficient pool of suitably qualified candidates for Band 3 roles. Visa sponsorship is therefore not available for this role currently. Candidates who already hold the right to work in the UK, including those on an existing Health and Care Visa, Graduate Visa, or any other valid permission are welcome to apply and will be considered on equal terms.

This position is reviewed regularly in line with Home Office guidance. Right to work will be verified at each stage of the recruitment and monitored throughout employment. All candidates who are offered a position will be required to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK as part of the pre‑employment checks process.

Where a candidates' right to work is derived from another person's immigration permission, the Trust will discuss the implications of this with the candidate before a permanent post is confirmed, to ensure that both parties understand the terms on which employment can be sustained.

Recruitment and Selection Approach

In line with best practice and regulatory guidance, our selection process is fair, consistent and based on your ability to perform the role, contribute to the organisation and your potential for development.

What to expect:

• Application screening: Your application will be reviewed against the person specification
• Interview: Typically, a panel interview with competency‑based and values‑based questions
• Assessment: Role‑dependent assessments may include practical tasks or presentations
• Timeline: We aim to complete the process within 47 days of the closing date.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled candidates at any stage. Please contact us to discuss your needs.

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.