Study Coordinator- Paediatric Research
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,094.00 to £36,195.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £33094.00 - £36195.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE5 9RS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9213-25-0927 |
Summary
The post-holder will work as part of the RDU 9 Research Delivery team for Paediatric Research. The post holder will cover the workload and responsibilities of his/her colleagues during their absence.The post-holder will report to the Lead Research Nurse who will be responsible for managing the requirements and demands for research delivery support across the research programmes and themes.The post-holder will be based at the Paediatric Research Office at Kings College Hospital and work in close liaison with the principal investigators at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH ) site in Orpington. The post-holder will be required to monitor and update on EDGE, the recruitment for studies conducted at the PRUH. The post-holder will be involved in ensuring that any research undertaken at this recruiting site safeguards the well-being of the patients and is conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004 and Amended Regulations 2006. The post holder will undertake all relevant responsibilities as study coordinator and will ensure high quality of the research by maintaining high standards throughout the study as well as good data integrity. This includes commercial and non-commercial NIHR portfolio studies as well as investigator-led studies. As study coordinator, the post holder will be expected to report serious adverse events in a timely manner. The post-holder will be responsible for recruiting to target, carrying out routine research study procedures, keeping accurate administrative records, and managing data entries and data queries in a timely manner. The post-holder will also be responsible for ensuring data integrity by carrying out regular quality assurance checks. For young children, the Phlebotomist in the Paediatric clinics are responsible for taking study bloods. The post-holder is responsible for collecting the bloods from the Phlebotomist and processing them as per study requirements. Other aspects of the role will include clinical tasks such as taking and recording vital signs, weight and height measurements, blood and urine specimen collection and processing, ordering and collecting study medication from clinical trial pharmacy. The post holder will work with a high level of autonomy, taking delegated responsibility from Clinicians for clinical decision making, and will work closely with the Investigators in the study, other ward or dialysis unit staff, out-patient staff, pharmacists and other multidisciplinary staff.The post-holder will have a personal duty of care in relation to research equipment and resources; maintain stock control, medication logs and calibration certificates and filing all essential documents in the investigator site files.