Clinical Research Nurse

Job Description

Clinical Research Nurses

Position: Clinical Research Nurse
Salary: £26,000 - £30,000
Location: Nottinghamshire
Hours: Full time and Part Time

Client Information:
Our client is leading provider of early stage drug development services. They conduct medical research on behalf of some of the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and employ highly qualified, medical, scientific, and clinical staff.

We are currently assisting our client to recruit for a number of Clinical Research Nurses. They are able to consider both part time and full time nurses. As they operate 24/7 they work a mixture of earlies / lates / long days and nights.

Summary of job purpose
·Ensure subject safety at all times
·Ensure study data is collected to a high quality in accordance with ICH–GCP

Qualifications & experience required for competent performance

·RGN or equivalent with at least 2 years post registration experience
Preferably, experience of working within a critical care setting and/or clinical research environment

Core Competencies – training will be provided

·Thorough knowledge of ICH-GCP, EU Directives and local regulatory requirements
·Thorough knowledge of phase I activities
·Immediate Life Support Trained
·Ability to perform 12-lead ECG
·Skilled in Venepuncture and cannulation
·Ability to take vital signs
·Can provide Scintigraphic imaging support to the Clinical Scientists
·Can provide support to the Clinical Scientists for tracking and activation of Enterion capsules
·Enterion capsule retrieval
·Ability to train and perform spirometry
·Thorough understanding of the processing of all biological samples
·Shipment of all biological samples
·Study set up including study day paperwork
·Study day dispensing and dosing requirements

Additional competencies

·An understanding of the clinical research environment
·Advanced Life Support skills
·Thorough understanding of Scintigraphic imaging requirements
·Ability to set up cameras prior to imaging
·Thorough understanding of how to track and activate a Enterion capsule
·Requirements for shipment of PK samples
·An understanding of screening activities and requirements
Job Demands

The job may involve the following:

·Flexibility to switch between duties on the ward, screening and laboratory
·Very high concentration of work
·Strict and tight deadlines
·Having to juggle a range of tasks/issues simultaneously
·Working in a hazardous environment with high requirement to follow safety procedures

Company Benefits:

In return our client can offer you an excellent wotking enviromertn with state of the art equipmment and the following company benefits:

·Pension scheme
·Life insurance
·Health insurance
·Flexible benefits packages, including
oChildcare vouchers
oBike to work scheme
oVarious insurance policies including travel and critical illness
oDental care
oBuy extra annual leave entitlement
oFlexible working

About Pulse:

PULSE recruits health and social care professionals for temporary and permanent jobs in the UK and abroad. We are the UK’s leading independent provider of healthcare bank staff management services and also provide all kinds of specialist care packages in the home and in the community.

We’re an approved supplier to the NHS and we hold contracts with NHS trusts, private hospitals, social service departments and local authorities nationwide. We also work with hospitals in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.

In 2010, for the second year running, PULSE was named Staffing Agency of the Year by the respected industry publication, Health Investor.

If you are interested in applying for this role, please email your cv to Melina.Bolton@pulsejobs.com or call 0161 245 4453