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Job summary

Main area
Corporate Services
Grade
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
380-SS0529
Employer
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Research & Innovation Centre, Beech House,
Town
Maidstone
Salary
£25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust logo

Assistant Research Management Facilitator

Band 4

 

The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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Job overview

The Research & Innovation Department at KMPT is expanding and we need someone to join the Research Quality team to help support with all aspects of research administration and coordinate the research management and governance activities during the lifecycle of all research studies at KMPT.

The role covers a wide variety of activities to help support the Research Quality team to ensure that all studies are set up and run appropriately. Working as part of the team the role will require carrying out and coordinating tasks during the feasibility assessment, set-up, and confirmation of capacity and capability processes for studies to open and thereafter. Upkeep of our local systems including our Local Portfolio Management System (EDGE) is a key aspect of this role and you will be required to ensure our study data is accurate and up to date to enable us to report appropriately to all internal and external stakeholders.

The role will also ensure general office management and support for the Research & Innovation team

Main duties of the job

Main duties:

  • To ensure the smooth set up and day-to-day running of research studies by completing regulatory documentation within a given timeframe
  • To establish and maintain efficient working practices, which ensure quality control of patient safety data
  • To ensure that research documentation is maintained in line with KMPT research and development policy and supporting SOPs and remains within national regulatory and legal frameworks
  • To ensure that reporting of research data meets national and local requirements
  • Attend local trial set up meetings
  • Responsible for forwarding data as required to Trust R&D department,  Kent Surrey Sussex Local Research Network and other external organisations within specified deadlines as required
  • To provide support to the clinical research team in daily trials activity and assist in workload management

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are  rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,700 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed job description and personal specification please download Job Description and Person Specification document. 

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Person specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Essential criteria
  • NVQ, Diploma or Higher National Certificate or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of health services research
  • Understanding of mental health settings
Desirable criteria
  • Previous research or clinical experience in mental health settings

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Problem solving abilities
  • Able to work independently but guided by supervision
  • Ability to plan and prioritise work to meet project deadlines
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of online research databases (e.g. EDGE)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyHSJ Best places to workCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Basia Brown
Job title
Research Governance Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07731068910

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
Telephone
01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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