Clinical Research Practitioner – TREASURE study

Harefield, England, United Kingdom

7/30/2025

TREASURE is an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)-funded feasibility study to explore the safety, acceptability and potential cost effectiveness of self-swabbing at home to obtain usable surgical wound culture swabs. The post holder will be expected to manage study participants at Harefield Hospital and Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton. They will have duty of care in supporting them and their families throughout their participation in any research activity. The role will include identifying suitable patients for the clinical study, recruitment, obtaining consent, data collection, analysis and dissemination. The post holder will work autonomously within professional practice guidelines and within the Research Governance Framework. They may need to work flexibly across disciplines to ensure the successful working of the project. Drawing on knowledge and experience they will supervise and mentor other staff, act as line manager for appropriate staff if required, and actively contribute to evaluation and improvement of the service. The post holder will play a key role in ensuring that any research undertaken within the department safeguards the wellbeing of the patients and is conducted according to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trial) Regulations 2004 and Amended Regulations 2006. In conjunction with the other members of the team, they will facilitate the production of good quality of research.

• Manage study participants professionally, ensuring duty of care to them and their families.
• Adhere to clinical trial protocols, ICH GCP, and relevant regulations.
• Develop and assess strategies to identify eligible research participants, liaising with clinical staff.
• Support and conduct the informed consent process, ensuring ongoing consent.
• Coordinate participant journey from screening to study closure.
• Collect research data via observation, interviews, case note review, and phone calls.
• Maintain accurate records in electronic medical systems and communicate with clinical teams.
• Promptly report adverse events or health concerns to appropriate medical staff and investigators.
• Perform clinical tasks such as wound assessment and swab preparation per protocols.
• Ensure safe tracking, storage, transport, and documentation of participant samples.
• Coordinate study-specific investigations and document results as per protocol.
• Report side effects and adverse events within protocol-defined timeframes.
• Act as a patient advocate.
• Escalate care deviations to senior staff and support care adjustments.
• Address participant concerns proactively and take necessary action.
• Report incidents to senior research staff and support incident and complaint management per Trust policies.
• Effectively manage clinical incidents.
  
  

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Karen Cariaga Job title: Project Manager - TREASURE Email address: [email protected]