# Clinical Research Practitioner

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Denmark Hill
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Clinical Research Practitioner will support the Trust to deliver a grant-funded research project, "The REFLECT study - Research on Experiences of Flares: Lived impact, Events, Clusters, and Trajectories". The role involves undertaking study-related procedures, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for research participants. The appointee will be responsible for recruiting patients to and following up on this research study and other high-quality studies in the rheumatology research portfolio. They will also be involved in data management and analysis.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities:**

- Assist in gaining and maintaining regulatory approvals for clinical studies

- Recruit and follow up participants within the study and other clinical studies

- Ensure written informed consent is obtained from participants

- Undertake study-related tasks and procedures as required

- Act as a patient advocate and provide appropriate advice and information

- Evaluate research protocols and participant information materials

- Collect and manage study participant data

- Undertake training and maintain competency to use relevant equipment

- Maintain data and case report forms in accordance with guidelines

- Analyse clinical data related to the trial

- Work within organisational policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

- Assist in managing incidents, accidents, and complaints

- Participate in audit of research procedures and processes

- Ensure all study documents are kept up to date and effectively stored

- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of research-related topics

- Communicate effectively and work to maintain a harmonious working environment

- Attend and organise meetings, workshops, and conferences

- Effectively communicate research findings to different audiences

- Be responsible for maintaining own competency through continuing professional development activities

- Participate in regular performance appraisal meetings

- Provide training for students and others working on relevant research projects

- Act as a role model and participate in group meetings and activities

**Person Specification:**

- Degree in a relevant field or qualified nurse/AHP/research professional with relevant experience

- Research training and/or relevant experience in quantitative and qualitative research and statistics

- Experience in applied health research, ethics procedures, and information governance

- Experience of recruiting participants to research studies and clinical studies or trials

- Knowledge of research methodologies, quality, standard setting, benchmarking/audit

- Experience of reporting and presenting research findings

- Computer skills: Excel spreadsheets, patient database systems, email, and Microsoft office packages

- Ability to use qualitative and quantitative software packages (desirable)

## Skills

### Required
- Excel
- patient database systems
- email
- Microsoft office packages
- quantitative research
- qualitative research
- statistics
- applied health research
- ethics procedures
- information governance

### Nice to have
- Masters or PhD qualification in a health-related subject
- Experience of working with people with musculoskeletal/long-term conditions
- NVivo
- Stata

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