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Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
About
North London Mental Health Partnership includes Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I).
Together, our two trusts employ around 6,000 staff and support almost a quarter of a million adults and children with mental health conditions. We are a forward-thinking, innovative organisation, committed to delivering the very best care possible.
We provide a wide range of mental health specialist services, including children and young people’s mental health services, prison services, forensic services, eating disorders and drug and alcohol recovery. We also support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces, providing specialist veteran services across London.
Both our trusts are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many areas judged to be Outstanding.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide Apprenticeship opportunities as well as employment opportunities for care-leavers.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We are a great place to work for our staff with occupational health services, wellbeing initiatives and staff incentives.
- We offer flexible working,
- Our staff are eligible for the NHS Pension Scheme and receive a generous annual leave allowance.
- Discounts are offered to NHS staff in a wide range of stores and services
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups
- We support learning and personal development opportunities.
Research Assistant
Closed for applications on: 10-Aug-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 10-Aug-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- R&D Delivery Team for NLMHP.
- Address
- 1st Floor, Noclor NHS Research Office, Regis Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- NW5 3AB
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months FTC)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Research and Development
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 x Band 5 Clinical Research Assistants (full time), to work in the Research & Development Delivery Team at Barnet Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH), under the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP). As a member of R&D, the post holders will the trust's ongoing portfolio of clinical research studies, for a range of mental health, dementia, neurodegenerative, and other related studies, and assist with coordinating and delivering clinical research activity.
It’s expected that applicants will have some working knowledge and understanding of clinical research, but this post is an opportunity to build on their existing knowledge and experience within a research setting.
The post holder will be expected to take a proactive role in the research infrastructure to support commercial and non-commercial studies across BEH. This includes: working with clinical services, to identify, screen, and recruit potential study participants; Carrying out study baseline, follow up, and monitoring visits, with study participants, to collect study specific data and ensure that the research undertaken in the Trust is of the highest standard and in accordance with ICH Good Clinical Practice and other relevant guidelines.
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To recruit suitable participants to Mental Health, Dementia and Neurodegenerative disorder, and Neurological studies within a range of care settings.
To adhere to defined processes for study set-up, delivery of the research and study closedown while striving to improve the performance of the division against national and local targets and objectives.
To implement agreed courses of corrective action where deadlines and metrics are not being met or are at risk.
To implement research protocols, under the supervision of the Research Consultants or R&D Director
To identify good performance and good news stories for feedback and promotion to stakeholders.
To develop and maintain knowledge of partner organisations’ services and resources in order to identify potential recruitment sites for research.
Work collaboratively as a member of the clinical research team across the region, liaising with other CRN delivery staff to problem solve and share ideas and best practice.
The post holder will be required to travel across North London to meet the needs of the service.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please can you refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Good first degree (in Psychology or health related field), or relevant experience in a research setting.
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Psychology or other health related field.
- Good Clinical Practice certificate.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of the principles of research.
- Knowledge of the processes that are required to conduct research in the NHS (e.g. gaining a favourable ethical opinion, Trust R&D approval).
- Experience of working with MS Office in particular MS Excel, as well as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint.
- Experience of working with people receiving healthcare for mental health, dementia and neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.
Desirable criteria
- Certification and experience in standard assessment scales like PANNS and HAM-D.
- Knowledge of the governance standards that apply to research in the NHS (e.g. Medicines for Human Use Clinical Trials Regulations).
- Experience of managing projects.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate and work effectively with people at all levels across a range of organisations.
- Demonstrable problem solving skills.
- Desire to facilitate and support investigators with their research studies, maintaining a problem solving and customer-focused approach.
- Well organized and skilled in time management with ability to meet deadlines and also work with several projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work on own initiative, making decisions and using organisational and time management skills to meet tight deadlines.
- Good team player and able to motivate oneself and work independently.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to analyse facts or situations, investigating a variety of issues and proposing solutions; dealing with complex enquiries.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- Flexibility of working hours may be required to ensure deadlines are met.
- Able and willing to work under pressure from time to time, with a flexible attitude to work.
- Mental effort – Frequent requirement for intense concentration.
- Calm, confident and professional manner.
- A positive and friendly approach.
Desirable criteria
- A desire to develop knowledge and expertise within research.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Essential criteria
- The role will require regular travel to multiple sites across both BEH and C&I trusts. Some travel may also be required to other organisations across London (for meetings) as well as infrequent travel to national events and meetings.
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake training in phlebotomy.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom Freeth
- Job title
- R&D Delivery Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8702 3556
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