Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer

Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer NHS AfC:
Band 5

Main area Research Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract 12 months (Fixed term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/02/2026 23:59 Interview date 10/02/2026

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for a Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Would you like to take the next step in your nursing career and support the delivery of world class health research to improve people’s lives?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) East of England Research Delivery Network, for an Agile Research Delivery Team Research Officer to join the team based at the Lister Hospital.

As part of the team you would be working in a range of non-hospital settings (e.g. primary care, community services, care homes, schools) to support and champion health and social care research. The catchment area will be within Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.

The focus for this role is to provide support to the delivery and/ or set up of National Institute for Health and Care Research Delivery Network (NIHR RDN) Portfolio studies across varied health and care settings. The role can also involve office based work at times.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:

Include,Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The focus for this role is to provide support to the delivery and/ or set up of National Institute for Health and Care Research Delivery Network (NIHR RDN) Portfolio studies across varied health and care settings. This will require flexible autonomous working across disciplines and the Regional RDN (RRDN) region.

This post has a dual function and the post holder will either contribute to research delivery and/ or research support for wider care settings dependent upon regional need. Research delivery will involve the correct identification, recruitment, delivery and follow up for research participants according to the appropriate research protocols.

Research support will involve engaging with stakeholders to promote research activity, site identification, set up and associated governance. The post holder will need interpersonal and leadership skills to facilitate collaborative working relationships across a breadth of stakeholders to maximise engagement opportunities.

This post may contribute to line management for a team of research delivery staff working autonomously in a variety of specialties and settings.

You will be required to travel across the locality and wider throughout the Eastern region.

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

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