Matron - Research and Innovation
Closed for applications on: 21-Feb-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 21-Feb-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Nowgen Centre, Oxford Road
- Address
- Grafton Street
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Research and Innovation
Job overview
Are you dynamic, highly motivated and committed to improving patient/ participant outcomes and experience?
We are looking for an innovative and enthusiastic nursing/ Midwife leader who is passionate about Clinical Research and delivering the best patient/ participant care, and who can provide leadership and strategic direction for their teams. To undertake this challenging role you will need to have experience in leading and managing nursing & midwifery teams. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders.
You should be a band 7 registered nurse or midwife with experience in Clinical Research, managerial experience and can demonstrate the desire and ability to provide strong and visible leadership and facilitate team learning.
You will have highly effective interpersonal, negotiation and decision-making skills, a sound knowledge and understanding of the challenges and opportunities.
Further details are outlined in job specification.
Advert
The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to the Research & Innovation clinical teams across all research active hospitals in the MFT. Working with the Lead Research Nurse & Midwifery Manager for Research & Innovation, the post holder will support the work of Research & Innovation in delivering research to the highest standards.
- Provide effective clinical and professional leadership acting as a role model for all staff within Research & Innovation. Work closely with other groups within Research & Innovation and MFT
- Actively work to support and empower the Nurse managers, Research Midwife coordinators and senior clinical research nurses to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, ensuring they are supported in appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively in an accountable manner
- Proactively review and analyse day-to-day service delivery to develop a framework for ongoing quality improvement for nursing, contributing to overall research quality, clinical effectiveness, and risk management activities
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/ Midwife
- Advanced knowledge and skills in clinical research, nursing and management
- Educated to Degree Level in health-related studies or equivalent experience
- ICH-Good Clinical Practice certificate
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/ training experience/ qualification
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate experience in a senior clinical position (minimum 2 years )
- Experience of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
- Evidence of continual professional development within a management role
- Ability to manage own workload
- Proactive, takes own initiative
- Significant experience undertaking, coordinating, and managing clinical research.
- Line management experience
- Experience in workforce planning
- Experience of implementing new systems within a research environment
- Proven ability to maintain highly complex information. sources and databases
- Experience of redesign or change management initiates
Desirable criteria
- Experience of regulatory inspections
- Project management experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of major regulatory issues governing the conduct of clinical research (e.g. Research Governance framework for Health and Social Care, Medicines for Human Use 9clinical Trials) Regulations, mental Capacity Act, Data protection Act and Human Tissue Act
- Sound knowledge of the research, clinical, information and corporate governance agendas
- Knowledge of the inspection and regulation environment in which clinical research cooperates.
- Understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Good inter-personal skills – must be able to influence and motivate others in order to achieve results
- Methodical with good organisational skills with attention to detail
- Good time management skills – able to plan and work to agreed timescales and to multi-task effectively
- Good IT skills, including MS Word, advanced Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, internet and various databases.
- Good presentation skills and report writing skills
- Ability to listen to others and use critical questioning techniques
- Ability to prioritise and quickly identify the core issues in a situation
- Ability to use problem solving skills and ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
- Able to be flexible and readjust plans, able to prioritise work within set deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of information governance
- Knowledge of patient information systems
- Proven ability to educate and support clinical staff in clinical trial methodology
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Creative, Resourceful and Enthusiastic, Self- motivated, Innovative, facilitative, patient and helpful
- Capacity to work with PI’s and staff at all levels
- Inspires others and leads by example
- Willingness to travel across multiple sites as indicated.
- Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect
Desirable criteria
- Ability to troubleshoot effectively
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sheeba Abraham
- Job title
- Lead Research Nurse and Midwifery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01617010379
- Additional information
Also can contact Ciaran Kilkelly, Head of Nursing and Midwifery, Research and Innovation for informal chats. [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Parkway 1
- Parkway Business Centre
- Recruitment Office 1st Floor
- Princess Road
- Manchester
- M14 7LU
- Telephone
- Resourcing Department: 0161 276 6198
No longer accepting applications
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