Research Nurse-Research and Development

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The closing date is 22 January 2026

We are recruiting for a Research Nurse who has a specialist interest in renal and who will be able to share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post holder will be part of the Research Team delivering new and innovative treatments to patients at the Trust.

You will work closely with the team led by the senior research nurse as well as the multi-disciplinary team in delivering care to renal patients.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

You will work with clinicians and other specialists recruiting patients to clinical trials and other NIHR research studies.

You will take responsibility for the coordination and management of clinical research projects, collaborating with key personnel throughout the network to ensure continued care and support for patients involved in clinical trials.

You may be required to take responsibility for the safe administration of experimental drugs and for monitoring the expected and unexpected side effects of drugs and other treatment modalities.

You will be expected to have sufficient skills to enable patients to make informed choices concerning their involvement in the clinical trials by providing advice and information and acting as the patients advocate.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

• Registered Nurse
• Evidence of CPD and maintenance of PDP
• Willingness to undertake training as appropriate for role

• Experience of working with patients and families within relevant clinical areas.
• Experience of teaching, and mentoring.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work cross boundaries integrating with multidisciplinary staff
• Ability to make clinical judgments regarding patient needs where appropriate
• Computer literate with Microsoft Office software. (including word, Excel)

• Awareness of GCP (Good Clinical Practice)
• Awareness of research governance issues

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust