Clinical Educator

Job summary

NIHR South Central Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.

Main duties of the job

NIHR South Central Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) is seeking a clinical professional to join our new organisation as a Clinical Educator.

The Clinical Educator will have responsibility for providing appropriate research education and clinical skills improvement for clinical staff within the NIHR RRDN Agile Research Delivery Team.

This role also involves working with and supporting delivery organisations with their own research education and clinical skills training where required. This role is part of the RRDN Workforce Development function. This role will ensure all clinical research staff within the Agile Research Delivery Team are trained and competent in line with employer statutory and mandatory requirements, as well as applicable Research Delivery Network (RDN) training and development programmes and relevant study sponsor requirements. This role may also provide clinical research delivery support to studies delivered by the Agile Research Delivery Team when required.

About us

The RDN is a new organisation with new structures, governance and ways of working. Study delivery in England will be supported through 12 NIHR Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs). These will work with the national Coordinating Centre (RDNCC) and the Department of Health and Care to provide a joint RDN leadership function via the RDN Board, so that the NIHR RDN as a whole functions as a single, transparent organisation with a shared vision and purpose. University Hospital Southampton is the Host Organisation for the South Central RRDN region.

Working Hours and Location

This position is offered on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week). However, for the ideal candidate, there may be limited scope for negotiation.

The post involves hybrid working, with the on-site base being either our Southampton or Oxford office.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification document for further details.

The NIHR RRDNs will have three key roles which it will fulfil via new models of service delivery and functions, to:

1. Provide support to research sites to enable the effective and efficient initiation and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England.
2. Enable the strategic development of new and more effective research delivery capability and capacity. This will include bringing research to under-served regions and communities with major health and care needs.
3. Work jointly with the Coordinating Centre in the strategic oversight of the NIHR RDN.

This will ensure that the Portfolio is maintained as a cohort of high-quality, fully-funded, viable and deliverable studies. It will also ensure that the NIHR RDN as a whole serves the research delivery needs of investigators and R&D teams and is responsive to the changing domestic and global environment for health and care, life sciences and health research.

The NIHR RRDNs will need to develop excellent relationships with the organisations commissioning and providing health and social care across their regions, which are mapped onto NHS regions and Integrated Care Systems. They will help support research undertaken by those providers and at sites across the region, and promote research meeting the needs of local populations. NIHR RRDNs will work together with an RDN Coordinating Centre to support health and care research delivery for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy as a whole.

If you would like an informal conversation on the recruitment process, please contact jane.mccartney@uhs.nhs.uk in the UHS Senior Appointments Team.

Alternatively, if you're ready to apply, please follow the link below. Please submit an Expression of Interest and a short CV setting out your skills and experience for the speciality area/s you wish to apply for.

Closing date is 21st January 2025.

Interviews are planned for either the 5th or 6th of February 2025.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training / Registration

Essential

1. Postgraduate qualification (eg. Post Graduate Diploma) in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
2. Registered Nurse or AHP on relevant part of the professional register (NMC HCPC)
3. Evidence of on-going professional development (both in terms of meeting the CPD requirements of the relevant professional body and in respect of leading education interventions).

Desirable

1. Recognised teaching qualification

Experience

Essential

1. Experience of teaching and mentorship
2. Extensive experience of clinical research delivery (with delegated duties and/or Principal Investigator roles) on a wide variety of studies including CTIMP interventional/observational and commercial/noncommercial.
3. Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating effective learning interventions
4. Expert knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (GCP), research governance and related regulations
5. Leadership skills - evidence of ability to help/support junior staff

Organisational Values

Essential

1. Patients First
2. Working Together
3. Always Improving

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

Address
Southampton General Hospital
Tremona Road
Southampton
SO16 6YD

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