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Clinical Trials Feasibility Officer

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Grade 5, £32,676 to £37,297, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
28 Oct 2020

Job Details

Job description

The Clinical Trials Feasibility Officer (CTFO) will provide administrative support to a busy feasibility team providing an efficient and effective feasibility service for investigators, companies and contract research organisations that are engaging in commercial clinical trials within the Partner Institutions. 

The CTFO will act as the point of contact for commercial studies submitted through the NIHR Clinical Research Network, being a liaison between South London CRN, KHP Partners (both clinical and administrative) and commercial sponsors of clinical trials to manage expression of interests and feasibility assessments for proposed commercial clinical trials

The CTFO will conduct robust feasibility assessments for commercial clinical studies across a board range of therapeutic areas and develop processes to increase and continuously improve efficiency of the Clinical Trials Office’s feasibility service.

Candidates will ideally hold a degree or an equivalent qualification and have experience in setting up trials in the pharmaceutical and allied health industries and/or the NHS/Academic sector.  An understanding of the legal, regulatory, and statutory governance of clinical trials is required. 

Most importantly, we seek candidates who can think analytically, are confident and persuasive communicators with excellent written English, and who can successfully manage a diverse and very busy workload largely autonomously.

The Kings Health Partners Clinical Trials Office (KHP-CTO) is a joint initiative between the member institutions of King’s Health Partners. It has been set up to provide a single interface for those wishing to conduct clinical trials within the partner institutions, and to ensure that there are common, efficient processes for the set up and administration of clinical trials. 

Key responsibilities

  • To manage the CRN Site Identification process for KHP.
  • To provide administrative support to the feasibility team
  • To ensure compliance with the relevant legal, regulatory and internal governance.
  • To communicate effectively with all stakeholders, giving accurate, clear advice on feasibility
  • To maintain a working knowledge of prevailing regulations, guidance, best practices and GCP standards regarding the conduct of clinical trials
  • To ensure MATTS (MedSCINets Active Trial Tracking System) requirements are meet
  • To ensure confidentiality of commercially sensitive information.
  • To ensure the General Data Protection Regulations requirements are met.
  • To undertake such other duties within the scope of the post as may be requested by the Senior Clinical Trials Feasibility Associate or the Commercial Trials manager.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

This post will be a full time, indefinite contract.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

  • Educated to degree level or possess equivalent relevant experience
  • Experience of commercial clinical trial set up
  • Knowledge of the regulatory requirements for clinical trials and GCP
  • Knowledge and understanding of the commercial trial feasibility process
  • Strong computer skills (proficient with MS word, Excel, and Web-based applications).
  • Knowledge of medical, scientific and /or research terminology
  • Demonstrably high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Ability to explain complex ideas with clarity, and have excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Sound judgment the ability to persuade people to their point of view without causing resentment or damaging working relationships.
  • Experience conducting clinical trial feasibilities

Desirable criteria

  • Direct, relevant work experience in field of clinical trials and sponsored research
  • Knowledge of current national systems and structures for the approval, management and monitoring of clinical research in the NHS.
  • Knowledge, understanding and experience of the commercial/business environment clinical trials are conducted within

*Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.*

Further information

The selection process will include a panel interview and assessment or presentation.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service

This advertisement does not meet the requirements for a Certificate of Sponsorship under Home Office regulations and therefore the university will not be able to offer sponsorship for this role..

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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