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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Oncology Haematology Clinical Trial Set-Up Specialist
Closed for applications on: 13-May-2024 11:06
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-May-2024 11:06
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Address
- Great Maze Pond
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- .
- Interview date
- 23/05/2024
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
As Set-Up Specialist, you will play a crucial role in the initiation and set-up of commercial and non-commercial clinical trials within OHCT. Working with the OHCT Research Business Development and Initiation Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring feasibility, reviewing clinical trial budgets, conducting financial negotiations with commercial and non-commercial sponsors, ensuring the financial viability of trials. Your primary focus will be on driving the efficient and timely set-up of clinical trials collaborating closely with the King's Health Partners Clinical Trials Office (KHP-CTO), Guy's and St Thomas' R&D, support departments, research team and investigators to meet established timelines and targets. Alongside set-up, this post will oversee coordination of amendments for the department ensuring they are correctly tracked, processed and implemented within appropriate timeframes. This role will also oversee line management of the OHCT Imaging Coordinator and Data Managers, and delivering training on topics related to trial set-up.
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• To have input into the feasibility process to ensure viability of new clinical trials • To work closely with KHP-CTO and Trust R&D as required to ensure the timely set-up of commercial and non-commercial clinical trials. • To conduct reviews of commercial clinical trial budgets ensuring financial viability • To conduct reviews of non-commercial agreements and the Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Template (SoECAT) • To work with Trust R&D to complete confirmation of capacity and capability assessments for the set-up of non-commercial clinical trials. • To undertake financial negotiations with commercial companies, clinical research organisations and Trust Investigators. • To identify and liaise with necessary support departments to confirm capacity to support OHCT trials and collect relevant costs and documentation. • To coordinate with support departments, research teams, investigators and Trust R&D/KHP-CTO to ensure trials are opened to pre-agreed time and target. • To line manage and coordinate the workload of the OHCT Imaging Coordinator and Data Managers • To lead clinical trial set-up training and model practices to OHCT staff members and external team members (where required). • To assist with collection of KPIs/Metrics • To oversee, track and ensure timely processing and implementation of amendments for the department. • To attend and contribute to relevant meetings
Working for our organisation
The Oncology and Haematology Clinical Trials (OHCT) team is made up of eighty plus staff members consisting of Research Nurses, Clinical Trial Practitioners, Clinical Trial Coordinators and the Safety & Support Team at Guys’ and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. We work closely with the oncology and haematology medical teams to recruit patients to our trials and to ensure patients are monitored closely throughout. We have a large portfolio of Phase II and III trials; which are split into teams for specific tumour groups. We also have a team dedicated to early phase trials and run weekly early phase clinics in the Clinical Research Facility. We attract commercial and non-commercial trials, ranging from interventional drug or radiotherapy trials to observational studies. Our mission statement is ‘Improving treatment choice, clinical care and outcomes for cancer patients through innovation, dedication and excellence in clinical trials’.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A detailed job description, person specification and functional requirements for the role are available in attached documents.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Relevant post-graduate qualification, or ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge working at masters level equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in clinical research
- Experience in non-commercial clinical trial set-up processes
- Experience in commercial clinical trial set-up processes
- Experience in reviewing, processing and implementing amendments.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of KPI/metric generation and tracking
- Experience in line management
- Experience/understanding of the National Contract Value Review (NCVR) process.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Detailed knowledge of ICH GCP, R&D governance and UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research and The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004
- Confident and articulate, able to get across own point and negotiate in complex situations.
- Proven ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise own work in a busy work environment and time critical situations
- Able to co-ordinate and influence the activity of others to produce work within agreed timescales and quality standards.
- Evidence of ability to work on own initiative.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Perry
- Job title
- Research Business Development & Initiation Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7188 7188
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