Guys and St Thomas is among the UKs busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guys is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Childrens Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of Kings Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with Kings College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of good. Our adult community services achieved a rating of outstanding.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical research nurse to join the Kings College London Cancer Prevention Trials Unit (CPTU) team to undertake clinical research activities to deliver, a high-quality research study of healthy volunteers. You will achieve excellence within participant well-being and experience, and high standards of research nursing and governance, and clinical management in an exciting new, large-scale early cancer detection study. You will undertake participant communications including delivery of test results and aid their clinical interpretation, handle participant and health care professional queries and oversee referrals and care pathways in coordination with CPTU staff, GRAIL Bio UK Ltd and key stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job include:
Lead on participant communications and well-being issues, providing specialist advice relevant to clinical research nursing, cancer screening and potential cancer-related anxiety (including handling of clinically-relevant research findings)
Be responsible to support screening of eligible research participants including providing information and support to participants, clinical follow-up, data collection and safety reporting according to requirements
Work with the Project Lead to establish and maintain key strategic relationships with networks of clinicians, researchers and health service managers for effective roll-out of the trial
Work alongside a team of trial coordinators, data managers and database developers to ensure compliance with GCP, data protection and research governance frameworks, regulations and sponsor requirements
Support the development of training materials for clinical research staff at study sites including study specific and informed consent training and elements of GCP
Monitor participants experience and identify important participants well-being issues
Be a central point of contact for site staff for trial-specific procedures including support to participants, eligibility assessment, informed consent, and sample management.
Working for our organisation
About Us
This role is in partnership with the Cancer Research UK & Kings College London Cancer Prevention Trials Unit (CPTU). CPTU specialises in research to advance cancer prevention, early diagnosis and screening.
CPTU perform research on efficacy, cost-effectiveness and technologies to improve existing and establish new screening programmes. Our portfolio of both secondary (hospital) and primary (community) care trials includes: Multi-centre international randomised controlled trials of medicinal prevention of cancer often using drug re-purposing
Pragmatic trials of screening and diagnostic interventions
Trials of behavioural interventions in cancer prevention and screening
Trials of diagnostic/screening devices”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information on the role and its requirements can be found in the attached job description and person specification documentation
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Guys and St Thomas celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studys at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
