Clinical Director in Children's Clinical Research Facility

Job description

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Job overview

Barts Health NHS Trust is one of the largest providers of children's healthcare in the UK. We have the very latest facilities and dedicated clinical staff which offer the highest standards of care across a wide range of common and rare diseases.

The Children's Clinical Research Facility

The Children's Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) forms part of the Children's Hospital, based at The Royal London Hospital, but working across other Barts Health hospitals, particularly Newham and Whipps Cross University Hospitals.

Key objectives of the CCRF are to:

• Support experimental medicine research in children, including the timely and efficient recruitment for, and completion of, commercial and non-commerical studies
• Utilise the world class facilities provided by the CCRF to launch novel research areas in the diagnosis and treatment of common and rare diseases of childhood, with our partners in the acute sector, primary care, including neighbouring centres of excellence and commercial partners
• Ensure the quality and safety of our children's research
• Increase our capacity for and expertise in experimental medicine, through education, training and co-development with industry.

In addition to approving and overseeing the delivery of children's research across Barts Health hospital sites, the CCRF Director will support the group wide Children's strategy to address the existing and future challenges facing paediatric care at Barts Health.

Main duties of the job

Main duties, responsibilities and results areas

Support the growth and development of the CRF by:
• Developing and supporting grant applications to major funders of clinical research, including NIHR for academic-led studies, where Barts Health is the lead site
• Working with commercial partners to obtain investment funds to support the strategic aims of the CRF and CCRFs across all of our sites and our partner's collaborative objectives, focusing on children's research.
• Developing partnership working relationships with our NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network to secure delivery support funding for future NIHR portfolio activity, at Barts Health and across North East London.
• Developing the role of the CCRF within the wider context of population health and applied research for and with children, carers and families, including efforts to reduce health inequalities across our local populations
• Working with the CRF Director of Operations and the Divisional Director of Operations for the Children's Hospital, to construct and manage Children's CRF budgets.
• Engaging with patients, children and young people, carers and families, to ensure that patient voice is heard and lived experience shapes our research priorities and the design of our research projects.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant clinical health/care qualification for your profession, for example MBBS or equivalent
• PhD, MD(Res), or equivalent
• Formal training in research
• Certificate of completion of specialist training or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• Formal management training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant experience in clinical research governance and management
• Track record in delivering clinical research to the highest standards and to current regulatory requirements
• Publishing experience in peer review and professional journals
• Experience in leading and managing a diverse workforce team
• Experience of delivering Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products
• Experience of working with sponsors of commercial clinical trials
• Experience of working with and developing partnership working collaborations with a range of external research funders

Desirable criteria

• Experience in patient safety
• Involvement in team building, mentoring and people management activities
• Relevant experience as a paediatric clinician, with experience of children's research

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of the current regulatory framework for clinical research and of the organisations responsible in the UK for delivering this.
• Knowledge of research ethics and the local and national organisations that deliver this
• Knowledge of public and patient involvement in research
• Thorough understanding of the research environment in both academic and NHS institutions and the scope and nature of the type of research undertaken in these environments

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of mechanisms employed to maintain a high quality clinical care environment.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to work to formaldeadlines and under pressure effectively
• Evidence of high levels diplomatic, innovation and problem solving skills
• Ability to articulate arguments, and to respond onstructively to debate and criticism
• Ability to motivate others
• Ability to work towards consensus when appropriate and to maintain a management line where required
• High level of clinical research skills

Other

Essential criteria

• Enthusiasm to meet the challenges of the role and motivation to succeed

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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