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Communicate competently complex information about specific clinical trials and their consequences, to patients and carers ensuring they have a good understanding of treatment options, thereby ensuring high standards of informed consent.

To act as the key worker for patients in your direct care for the duration of active involvement in a clinical trial, ensuring that all patients, carers and appropriate community colleagues are well informed about their disease and its management, providing appropriate and timely information.

Work in partnership with clinical investigators with all aspects of a clinical trial, including: trial set up, trial documentation, data collection, administration and patient recruitment and treatment coordination.

Registered general nurse / practitioner with evidence of highly developed knowledge in oncology and clinical research to include well developed leadership and managerial skills.

Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience or qualification.

Takes personal responsibility for lifelong learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and knowledge and skills framework, actively engaging with learning and development opportunities in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.

Work autonomously to manage a large caseload of patients acting as a professional nurse in ensuring a duty of care to the patient and their families.

To be able to provide an expert opinion on the creation and coordination of the disease specific portfolio in collaboration with the MDT.

Judgements on information giving for conflicting studies.

Assessing the feasibility of running a trial in VUNHST and CVUHB.

Participate in service reviews in order to instigate and manage change and service improvement within a complex department.

Influence and develop policy and clinical guidelines internally and externally.

Lead on the contribution to the early phase service development, ensuring pursuit of excellence in care for trials patients.

Work with the R&D Delivery Manager, and RD& I finance Manager in assessing the financial impact to the Trust and CVUHB of commercial and non-commercial trials.

Financial Initiative – Deal with financial negotiations and contractual agreements with pharmaceutical companies when setting up a clinical trial.

Identify and discuss with individual departments the physical resource implications.

Mentor new research staff and provide training in own discipline and that of other Clinical Trials Unit posts of Band 6 and below as required.

Managing and supervising an early phase team.  Implementing annual PADRs

Ensure continued effective registration with the NMC and be aware of NMC Code of Professional Conduct. They must be accountable for their own practice. Work within the NMC Scope of Professional Practice and ensure competency to undertake duties as allocated.

To be responsible for initiating and coordinating a range of UK, European and World Wide cancer trials for VUNHST and CVUHB as required, in collaboration with the relevant multi-disciplinary research teams.

To ensure that as an individual and as a team lead a quality service is delivered maintaining safety of the patient, and working to WG national research KPI`s.

Request trial related radiological procedures

Clinical assessment of patient.

Use of ECG’s Blood pressure machines and other equipment required to monitor the patient.

Knowledge of trial SACT.