Senior Research Nurse – Autopsy Liaison Nurse

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a Band 7 nurse to join the team at Clinical Ageing Research Unit in order to work with the established Autopsy Liaison team at Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource.  
Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource is a large established research tissue bank based within Newcastle University Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University’s Health Innovation Neighbourhood. The nurse team plays a key role in facilitating the donation of well characterised brain and other tissues by liaising with potential donors, their families and other professionals involved. 
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate excellent clinical skills and experience in the field of dementia/neurodegenerative disease research as well as the ability to deal with very sensitive issues and situations and problem solve under time pressure.  The postholder will have responsibility for the management of the local Brains for Dementia Research cohort (approx. 200 participants) carrying out home visits across the north east to complete a standardised annual neuropsychology assessment and collect other clinical data as well as working flexibly as part of a team to arrange tissue donations from those registered with NBTR and sometimes ad hoc donors.

• Interview Date Tuesday 13 January 2026
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

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• Maintain overall responsibility for the Brains for Dementia Research (BDR) cohort, scheduling & completing assessments in a timely fashion, liaising with participants, families & external agencies & organizing  blood sampling from suitable donors as necessary
• Ensure compliance with BDR research protocol and provision of standard metrics as required by managers and funders.  Liaise with other BDR centres 
• Ensure compliance with relevant ethical & legal principles including Good Clinical Practice, Mental capacity Act and Human Tissue Act
• Work as part of the NBTR Autopsy liaison team, liaising with prospective donors & their families to ensure that all donations take place with fully informed consent 
• Take part in out of hours cover ensuring prompt responses to donor families notifying NBTR of death of a potential donor 
• At time of donation, to work with donor families, funeral directors, mortuaries, GPs, Medical Examiners and pathologists to facilitate tissue donation in the required time scale   
• Use advanced communication skills to participate in a variety of public engagement & educational events to a range of audiences 
• Establish and maintain good working relationships & open channels of communication with participants, relatives, project management teams, supporting clinical and non-clinical departments within the Trust, other hospitals as well as commercial  and non commercial bodies (e.g the voluntary sector) in order to communicate complex information effectively

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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. 

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

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