Assistant Research Management Facilitator

Job summary

The Research & Innovation Department at KMPT is expanding and we need someone to join the Research Quality team to help support with all aspects of research administration and coordinate the research management and governance activities during the lifecycle of all research studies at KMPT.

The role covers a wide variety of activities to help support the Research Quality team to ensure that all studies are set up and run appropriately. Working as part of the team the role will require carrying out and coordinating tasks during the feasibility assessment, set-up, and confirmation of capacity and capability processes for studies to open and thereafter. Upkeep of our local systems including our Local Portfolio Management System (EDGE) is a key aspect of this role and you will be required to ensure our study data is accurate and up to date to enable us to report appropriately to all internal and external stakeholders.

The role will also ensure general office management and support for the Research & Innovation team

Main duties of the job

Main duties:

• To ensure the smooth set up and day-to-day running of research studies by completing regulatory documentation within a given timeframe
• To establish and maintain efficient working practices, which ensure quality control of patient safety data
• To ensure that research documentation is maintained in line with KMPT research and development policy and supporting SOPs and remains within national regulatory and legal frameworks
• To ensure that reporting of research data meets national and local requirements
• Attend local trial set up meetings
• Responsible for forwarding data as required to Trust R&D department, Kent Surrey Sussex Local Research Network and other external organisations within specified deadlines as required
• To provide support to the clinical research team in daily trials activity and assist in workload management

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,700 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.