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Senior Research Nurse and Memory Clinic Team Manager
| Posting date: | 18 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £44,179 to £50,556 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44179 - £50556 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 January 2025 |
| Location: | Bath, BA1 3NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0357-24-0003 |
Summary
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Management and Leadership 1. To provide management support to our clinic team including research nurses, research psychologists and medical secretaries and to act as an important point of contact for the team. 2. To be an active member of the Senior Leadership Team, attending regular meetings and presenting the views and activities of the memory services and research within a strategic context. 3. Liaison with a wide variety of people across different levels of seniority and areas of expertise, for example clinical and academic staff, professional bodies, charities, pharmaceutical companies in a confident, professional and friendly manner. Management of memory services 1. Joint responsibility for the operational running and management of memory clinics to deliver high quality and effective cognitive assessment services. Ensuring good links to other ReMind UK activities. 2. The postholder will oversee the day-to-day management of our memory services including waiting lists, stats reporting, linking into other external services such as AWP and Alzheimers society. 3. To be responsible for coordinating care for a small number of service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads, where appropriate. 4. To lead, in partnership with the Research and Medical Director, to ensure the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision processes. Jointly responsible for Memory Clinic CQC compliance, ensuring relevant paperwork is in place and up to date. 5. To develop and maintain, good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment and activity. 6. Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of people about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing developing or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carer and the service. 7. To support the Research and Medical Director in developing systems and processes for the effective management and monitoring of the caseload, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, and service users and carers receive the appropriate level of service. 8. To work with the Research and Medical Director to ensure focus on continual improvements to the service in line with organisational goals. 9. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements. 10. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained. Research engagement 1. To work with the clinical team to deliver high quality and effective research activities. 2. To engage and support Research Nurses with clinical trial studies as and when appropriate Clinical Research As a Senior Research Nurse, you will act as line manager for the Research Nurses and play a key role in the provision of effective nursing services for optimal study delivery. You will be responsible for acting as Study Coordinator on an agreed number of trials and will be closely involved from clinical start-up at the Site Initiation Visit right through to close-out. You will be trained to follow ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines. You will work closely with the principal investigator and collegiately with the wider study team. Study responsibilities include: Supporting and co-ordinating study visits Monitoring patients and volunteers during a study Developing a good relationship with the Sponsor Companys clinical research staff regarding the day to day running of the studies and assisting them at their monitoring visits Supporting patient and volunteer recruitment Maintaining accurate data collection, records and medication accountability Working with the team to carry out all study assessments according to the research protocol Centrifuging blood specimens and organising their transport and storage Performing electrocardiograms Liaising with laboratories and radiology departments Ensuring that study related equipment and supplies are ordered in a timely fashion, well maintained and calibrated when appropriate Administering medication under the directions of a doctor Attending site initiation and investigator meeting. This may require foreign travel.