Clinical Research Team Leader

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

The Clinical Research Team Leader plays a pivotal role in leading, coordinating, and advancing a high ‑ quality portfolio of clinical research across the service. The post ‑ holder will provide expert operational and clinical leadership to ensure that all studies are delivered safely, ethically, and efficiently, in full alignment with regulatory requirements, Good Clinical Practice, and Trust policy. As a visible and supportive leader, the post-holder will foster a positive research culture, champion participant ‑ centred care, develop team capability, and drive continuous improvement to support the growth and excellence of research activity at NUH.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrate strong research ‑ specific skills to ensure the safe, effective, and compliant delivery of clinical studies across the service.
• Expert knowledge of research governance and regulation including Good Clinical Practice (GCP), ethical frameworks, MHRA/HRA requirements, GDPR, and Trust research policies, ensuring all studies are delivered to the highest legal and professional standards.
• Study feasibility and portfolio management oversight including assessment of deliverability, resource needs, patient population, suitability and capacity planning.
• Risk identification and mitigation ability to recognise operational, clinical, and data ‑ related risks within studies and implement proactive strategies to maintain patient/participant safety, protocol compliance and study integrity.
• Lead, co‑ordinate and be accountable for the delivery of research studies and management of patient/participant care, ensuring safe staffing levels and effective use of resources.
• Ensure concerns raised by patients, participants and their families are dealt with in an open, honest and transparent way, quickly and effectively, in line with Trust policies, procedures and Duty of Candour legislation.

Working for our organisation

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives, and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

With more than 20,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond. Our Trust spans over three sites including Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), Nottingham City Hospital and Ropewalk House.

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services, and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes.

We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children’s Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.

This is an exciting time to join NUH and help support our future ambitions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description for full details

Risk identification and mitigation ability to recognise operational, clinical, and data ‑ related risks within studies and implement proactive strategies to maintain patient/participant safety, protocol compliance and study integrity.

Performance monitoring and improvement close tracking of recruitment, follow‑ups, milestones and KPIs. Also includes ability to analyse performance data and take actions to optimise study delivery.

Participant ‑ centred research practice ensuring high ‑ quality informed consent processes, clear communication of complex information, and a positive, safe experience for all research participants.

Safety reporting and oversight ability to support investigators with adverse event recognition, documentation, and reporting in line with governance/regulatory timelines and sponsor requirements.

Safety reporting and oversight ability to support investigators with adverse event recognition, documentation, and reporting in line with governance/regulatory timelines and sponsor requirements.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through obtaining a degree (BSc Hons in Nursing/health related studies), supplemented by clinical experience.
• Evidence of training undertaken in research governance and regulations, for example, Good Clinical Practice and the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
• Evidence of leadership and management training.

Experience

• Extensive experience of clinical research delivery within the NHS setting including an understanding of research governance legislation and regulations
• Recent clinical experience including ability to undertake venepuncture and cannulation.
• Ability to manage a broad portfolio of trials.
• Line management/appraisals experience within the NHS including identifying/reporting staff needs.

Communication

• Demonstrate negotiation and influencing skills.
• Team player who can initiate, delegate and complete projects.
• Demonstrate self‑awareness and understanding of personal accountability.
• Able to support colleagues, patients/participants and relatives/carers in distressing circumstances.

Physical Skills

• Demonstrate competence and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, using equipment and documentation
• Confident in the use of a range of software programmes.
• Competent and capable of using medical equipment.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full‑time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part‑time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licences through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre‑employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service – I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post must be subject to a DBS check which incure a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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