Research Data Manager

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Research Data Manager to work in the Research & Development Delivery Team (based within Barnet, Enfield & Haringey boroughs). This role involves working across multiple services within North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) to ensure people with mental health, dementia, learning disabilities, neurodegenerative and neurology problems have access to research opportunities.

The post holder will provide support to the team's Clinical Research Assistants, Clinical Research Practitioners, and Research Delivery Managers, carrying out administrative and data management duties in accordance with ICH GCP and local regulations. There will also be scope to shadow on patient-facing visits to support progression into band 5 roles and beyond.

The role in our team also provides a good platform to develop your clinical and leadership skills, with the support of your manager and the wider team. For example, previous members of the team have now gone onto senior roles within the NHS, completing PhDs and DClinPsy training. We also work with Research Delivery teams in other North London trusts, under Noclor Research Office, so this provides opportunities for shared learning and creative thinking. In addition, we are an outgoing and social team who encourage, motivate, and support one another.

Main duties of the job

The post holder's main responsibilities will be Supporting with data collection and data entry to research studies running in the trust - these may include studies in Adult Mood & psychosis, Dementia and Older Adults, and CAMHS; Monitoring and maintenance of electronic data capture systems (EDC) and site files; Managing participants payments; Providing administrative support and updating spreadsheets and local databases of clinical trial activity.

There will also be opportunities to be involved in additional clinical tasks, such as screening medical records to identify potential participants, calling service users to invite them to take part in research, triaging queries relating to research from clinicians, and some management of financial processes (like participant payments and study invoicing).

Other responsibilities will include ordering research supplies and managing room bookings. The post holder will be expected to develop skills and knowledge relating to the conduct of clinical trials principally for the Mental Health and Dementia trials. The post holder will work within the guidelines of ICH GCP at all times.

This is a chance to gain experience and knowledge of clinical research in the area of mental health. The role would suit somebody who has limited research experience and is looking to develop their knowledge and skills in this field.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the role and main duties and responsibilities, please get in touch or refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Registrations

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in a healthcare-related field

Desirable criteria

• ICH Good Clinical Practice certificate

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Understanding of clinical trials in the field of mental health, dementia or neurodegenerative diseases conditions and social care
• Ability to work on own initiative, making decisions and using organisational and time management skills to meet tight deadlines
• Demonstrable ability to communicate complex information to a range of audiences and through a variety of mediums with confidence, empathy and enthusiasm
• Able to work flexibly and creatively - contributing to the formulation and adjustment of plans and organising clinical, academic and service user involvement within those plans
• Good team player and able to motivate oneself and work independently
• Demonstrable problem solving skills
• Well organized and skilled in time management with ability to meet deadlines and also work with several projects simultaneously

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience working in an NHS based health or social care environment with service user contact
• Experience of working with people receiving healthcare for mental health, dementia and neurodegenerative and neurological disorders
• Experience of working with MS Office in particular MS Excel, as well as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within service users in Secondary Mental Health Care
• Project management experience
• Experience of public speaking

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Flexibility of working hours may be required to ensure deadlines are met
• Able and willing to work under pressure from time to time, with a flexible attitude to work
• Mental effort - Frequent requirement for intense concentration
• Calm, confident and professional manner
• A positive and friendly approach

Desirable criteria

• A desire to develop knowledge and expertise within research

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• The role will require regular travel to multiple sites within the trust, travel across North London (for meetings) and infrequent travel to national events and meetings

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Research Data Manager (Band4) - JD & PS (PDF, 440.4KB)
• NLFT Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 536.5KB)