Early Phase Clinical Research Fellow

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This post is a full-time appointment to provide medical support to the Early Phase Trials team including consultants, nursing and administration staff by primarily acting as co-investigator on early phase clinical trials.

The remit of the Early Phase Trials team is to undertake cutting edge research in developing new therapeutics and conducting translational research in cancer patients. Early phase trials are an important first step in the drug development process and are not only designed to test the safety and tolerability of novel agents but interrogate new drug formulations, combinations, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Our team delivers trials that are designed and led by our staff, collaboratively developed with pharma and biotech partners or studies to which we recruit and which support our academic strategy.

Main duties of the job

A diverse range of clinical research trials are in progress and, following training, you will be expected to participate in these studies as a co-/sub-investigator. These include Phase I trials of immunotherapeutics, small molecule inhibitors, next-generation chemotherapy trials, combination / multi-modality Phase I trials, molecular characterisation / translational studies.

You will be involved in managing all aspects of trial patients, across a diverse range of solid and HO tumours, through new patient consultation, consent and screening patients and reviewing patients at follow-up appointments. Primarily, patients are seen in the outpatient setting but with some inpatient cover. The appointee is required to attend 6 trial outpatient clinics per week (see indicative timetable).

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.