Research Nurse or Clinical Research Practitioner

Brunel Health Group is excited to announce a new opportunity to expand our Research workforce in collaboration with Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust (GWHFT). We are looking for an enthusiastic Research Nurse or Clinical Research Practitioner (CRP) to increase Primary Care capacity and engagement in academic and commercial trials. This joint initiative offers a unique shadowing opportunity to learn from an established research workforce and develop your expertise in a safe and trusted environment. Working across boundaries, you will help future-proof our ability as a network partner to deliver at-scale research in the Southwest. We aim to optimise opportunities to ensure equitable access to research studies, reflecting the ethnic diversity of our patient cohorts in Swindon and Shrivenham. If you are passionate about clinical research and eager to build confidence in primary care research participation, we encourage you to apply.,

• Project Delivery: Focus on the high-quality delivery of 2 to 3 academic or commercial research projects, which includes supporting Patient Identification Centre (PIC) activities.
• Capacity & Income Generation: Provide additional capacity for commercial trials at Great Western Hospital (GWH) to help generate income for the Trust.
• Shadowing & Knowledge Sharing: Spend one day a week shadowing and mentoring at GWH, bringing that exposure to new studies and general learning back to primary care colleagues at Brunel Health Group (BHG).
• Reporting & Development: Produce quarterly reports detailing learning outcomes and demonstrate progress by developing competencies against the CRN WoE Framework.
• Process Improvement: Develop SOPs applicable to future primary care research opportunities within BHG.
• Outreach & Collaboration: Actively seek out research opportunities, build research confidence among member practices, and liaise closely with the Central PI, Research Coordinator, and the wider healthcare system.
• Promote Equity: Optimise opportunities to ensure diverse patient cohorts in Swindon and Shrivenham have equitable access to research studies.
• Patient Care & Data Management: Provide direct clinical care for participants within the scope of your competence, while collecting and managing study data securely and accurately.
• Compliance: Ensure all research activities strictly adhere to Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Information Governance standards, and overall research governance., The aim of BHG is to develop and deliver services across the BHG and GP practice membership to optimise the health and wellbeing of our population through:
• Strengthening capacity through multidisciplinary working to deliver services in the community through direct provision or contracting
• Improving local integration of services
• Achieving efficiencies of scale and scope
• Use of population health management and outcomes of research to support service change.
Achievements to date
• Successful roll out and delivery of our local Covid Vaccination Programme at STEAM
• Recruitment to a range of roles within practices to enhance the primary care team ensuring that patients are seen by the most appropriate clinician, and not necessarily a GP e.g. Clinical Pharmacist, Health and Well Being Advisors, First Contact Physiotherapists, Mental Health Nurses and Paramedics.
• Improving access to services outside of normal working hours or through alternative provision e.g. our Enhanced Access Clinics operating a range of clinics and support across two sites on a Saturday and the provision of a GP telephone consultation service through Livi.
• Provision of dedicated Children and Young Persons Clinic on Saturdays and Mondays to support the health and care system response to our annual winter pressures and demand
  
  Nursing registration or equivalent
  
  Originally established in September 2018, Brunel Health Group (BHG) is a collaboration of primary care providers providing healthcare toall of Swindon and Shrivenham with over 264,000 patients