Clinical Trials Lead Nurse

You will provide line management, peer support, training, supervision, and play a key role in developing of the skills and knowledge of the R&D research delivery workforce. You will ensuring robust processes to support the study setup efficiencies, participant experience, intervention delivery, and follow-up across a portfolio of studies. You will be working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, sponsors, investigators, and external partners; drive excellence in research delivery, promote a culture of evidence-based practice, and enhance opportunities for patients to participate in clinical trials. The role is central to improving trial performance, expanding research capacity, and ensuring patients have equitable access to clinical trial opportunities. You will work in close partnership with the Research Delivery Lead to determine service priorities and coordinate effective workforce allocation. This role plays a key part in achieving national performance metrics by ensuring high-quality, timely, and efficient delivery of the clinical trials research portfolio, contributing directly to the CPFT performance against national research delivery standards.,

• Oversee the setup, conduct, and close-down of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with protocols and regulatory standards.
• Support feasibility assessments and capacity planning for new studies.
• Ensure robust processes for screening, recruitment, informed consent, intervention delivery, and follow-up.
• Provide expert clinical input into complex or high-risk studies.
• Ensure accurate, timely data collection and documentation in line with GCP.
• Monitor trial performance metrics and implement improvement actions where required.
• Work collaboratively with R&D finance teams and sponsors to raise timely and accurate invoices for research activities, proactively resolving discrepancies and supporting robust financial governance across the research portfolio
• Ensure adherence to GCP, UK Policy Framework for Health & Social Care Research, MHRA regulations, and local governance policies.
• Lead internal audits, quality checks, and readiness for external inspections.
• Maintain accurate essential documentation and trial master files/site files.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) for research delivery.
• Support incident investigations and implement learning outcomes.
• Ensure patient safety is prioritised throughout all research activities.
• Provide advanced clinical assessment and decision-making for research participants.
• Support the management and reporting of adverse events and protocol deviations.
  
  As a Clinical Trials Lead Nurse, you will provide operational leadership for the delivery of high-quality clinical trials within the organisation. You will ensure that clinical trials are conducted safely, ethically, and in accordance with regulatory, governance, and Good Clinical Practice standards. This is a critical role to R&D in the Trust and will build on the solid foundations already established within the research infrastructure at CPFT.
The post holder will be based in one of our R&D bases in the Trust, either at the Windsor Research Unit in Fulbourn Hospital or the Cavell Centre in Peterborough. They will be expected to travel between sites and to others relevant to the role events., Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development. To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications., Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services. We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including: + Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people; + Specialist mental health and learning disability services; + Children and young people's mental health services; + Children's community services in Peterborough; + Social care; + Ground-breaking research We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity. CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances. Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country. Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over. If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation. All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

This post is a part time (30 hours per week) fixed term 21-months contract.