Research Matron

Job overview

With a worldwide reputation, Newcastle Hospitals is an extremely research active organisation, delivering over 500 research studies a year to over 13000 research participants. We are looking for a caring, and forward thinking matron to join the Clinical Research Directorate senior management team to maintain our high standards and ensure that we continue to develop our services to shape and meet future research needs. This role is pivotal in ensuring that the Trust achieves its clinical research strategic goals

This is an ideal opportunity for either an experienced Matron or someone looking to progress into a Matron role. We are seeking someone with strong people management skills and ideally you would have significant experience in clinical research. You will need to have excellent communication skills as you will be required to work with across the organization and with partner organisations including: Newcastle University, NIHR, LCRN, Newcastle Health Innovation Partners (NHIP) and commercial sponsors.

• 27 June 2023
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Reporting to the Associate Director of Operations, you will be responsible, together with another matron, for all the NMAHP staff within the Directorate. Our staff are based across all Trust sites and therefore you will need to be flexible in your approach in order to maintain visibility, whilst supporting our workforce

Working closely with our business managers, partner organisations and R&D team, you will support the research delivery teams to deliver high quality clinical research, ensuring patient safety and good governance processes, ongoing review of patient experience, ongoing education and training, supporting the pipeline of research work and ensuring excellent links with all clinical services.

There will be numerous opportunities to develop your skills across a wide range of areas including involvement in funding bids and tenders, quality improvement and strategy development or other areas of interest.

Working in clinical research is such an exciting opportunity and we would be delighted to talk to you in more detail, so please do contact either of the Clinical Research Matrons, Aileen Burn or Fiona Yelnoorkar or Associate Director of Operations Jo Noble to find out more.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups