Research Administrator

Overview

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Research Administrator focusing on Clinical Trial data in the Research and Development Department based in the Horizon Centre at Torbay Hospital. The Research Team is looking for someone who is highly motivated and passionate about clinical research. You will work with a variety of research professionals including the Clinical Research Delivery Teams and the Research and Development Department in a friendly, supportive team environment and will help manage the data and admin associated with our clinical trials.

Our research portfolio has steadily grown over the last year so this would be an exciting time to join and help facilitate further growth as we take on more varied trials across more disease sites. A large proportion of the job will involve inputting clinical trial data and liaising with our clinical trials team to ensure all of our data is current and accurate.

A large part of the job will involve working across a number of computer systems and problem solving the management of trial data.

Communication between consultants, nurses, clinical teams, trial admin, support departments, trial sponsors and patients will be a key part of the role to ensure that our trial patient data is accurate and uploaded in a timely manner.

• Input clinical trial data and liaise with the clinical trials team to keep data current and accurate.
• Work across a variety of computer systems and troubleshoot trial data management.
• Communicate with consultants, nurses, clinical teams, trial admin, support departments, trial sponsors and patients to ensure trial patient data is accurate and uploaded promptly.
• Support safe conduct of research in accordance with the Research Governance Framework and Good Clinical Practice guidelines and protect the rights, safety and well‑being of trial participants.

• Highly motivated, enthusiastic, and excellent organisational, prioritisation, administrative and communication skills.
• Good eye for detail, strong time‑management, high degree of flexibility and strong IT and literacy skills.
• Ability to build effective working relationships, undertake tasks on your own initiative, and work independently.

The clinical research delivery team recruits participants from across the organisation into commercial and non‑commercial clinical trials and research. We work across the organisation, supporting research in a variety of clinical specialties and departments. We provide clinical research expertise from setting up studies with the clinical service through to informed consent, trial treatments and interventions and study follow‑up. We use a range of clinical database systems to ensure high quality clinical data collection.