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Clinical and Professional Responsibilities

- Working autonomously to assist in the management of a caseload of clinical trial patients, whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

- Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure high quality service delivery.

-Manage and oversee a portfolio of research studies in various disease sites.

-Training and assessing research staff as competent in line with the research competencies framework.

-Identifying suitable patients for entry into clinical studies by attending clinics (screening notes) and relevant Multi-disciplinary Team meetings.

-Use relevant clinical knowledge to identify patients suitable for clinical research using inclusion and exclusion criteria and utilising NHS records, visiting wards and outpatients.

-Act as a resource and role model for all aspects of research clinical practice in order to optimise patient care and clinical practice.

-Carry out physical assessments, taking blood/urine samples and processing according to protocol. 

-Ensure the environment is suitable for patient care and research processes, recognising the importance of privacy, dignity and diversity.

-Responsible for the care of research participants within the relevant sphere of practice and use opportunities to provide health promotion and patient education.

-Facilitate recruitment into a number of research studies ensuring all study timelines are met.

-Maintain accurate documentation of patient events in nursing/medical notes and Case Report Forms.

-Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of treatment options, treatment side effects and disease processes to support patients in making an informed choice.

-Provide ongoing information, education and support to patients (and their significant others) regarding clinical studies and specific trial treatments and procedures.

-Ensure that research specific investigations are undertaken as required by the protocol and obtain results in order to establish eligibility and safety to enter the research study.

-Safely administer the treatments and drugs that are given within the context of a clinical trial.

-Assess and manage any adverse reactions occurring due to ongoing treatment of a participant in a study seeking advice from Specialist nurses as appropriate and when required.  Initiate changes to treatments or treatment cessation in accordance to the protocol and with advice from a clinician.

-Ensuring all reactions are captured in the appropriate documentation.

-Provide continuity of care to patients and their carers throughout the research study.  

-Provide specific advice and support of complex information as appropriate.  

-Refer to other specialists as required to ensure optimum patient care.

-Maintain accurate patient data, complete Case Record Forms, including the use of electronic data capture systems and ensure relevant information is recorded in patients medical notes.

-Contribute to the monitoring of clinical standards within the research team.

-Work within NMC Code demonstrating accountability for own actions and awareness of own limitations.

-Utilise Information Governance guidance for the handling of sensitive patient data.

-Develop additional clinical skills to meet the needs of individual studies.

-Provide day to day supervision for band 5 research nurses/research officers within the research team.

-Responsible for teaching and delivering core training on competencies within research delivery.

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