Job summary
A vacancy has arisen in our Academic Directorate of Neurosciences to support the Research Coordinator.
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individual to provide a high-quality administrative support service to the Directorate.
It is essential that postholder has good communication and interpersonal skills as the role involves liaising with other departments and hospitals as well as nursing, medical and managerial staff. Candidates will need to display accurate keyboard skills and have had experience of managing a diverse workload in an office environment. Additionally, candidates must display a commitment to personal training and development.
Main duties of the job
The role of Research Administrator provides comprehensive administrative support in the following areas:
- Research study set up
- Collection of Accrual data
- Database Maintenance
- Good Clinical Practice training
- Investigator site files
- Meeting facilitation
- Communications and website
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven, relevant experience as an administrator working within busy office environments, developing and improving systems, providing administrative support to a team, dealing with people at all levels and contributing positively.
- Experience of managing a diverse workload
- Experience of contributing towards the development, implementation and quality assurance of systems.
Desirable
- Experience of working in research or clinical audit
- Understanding of health services research and the legislative and regulatory arena.
- Experience of research legislation including research governance, ICH GCP and Medicines for Human Use Regulations, research ethics.
- Experience of working within a research, NHS, university or other public sector environment.
Qualifications
Essential
- 5 GCSEs (including English and Maths) at Grade C or above
- Qualification to level 3 gained through either Secretarial (OCRIII) or Administrative (NVQ3) routes Or Equivalent knowledge gained through short courses, on the job training and experience of non-routine administration and establishing administrative procedure.
- A high level of knowledge of IT systems, database / web based packages is essential but may be demonstrated through either qualification or demonstrable experience of system use.
Desirable
- Scientific/Clinical Qualification/Degree
- A level(s) in sciences
- ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence)
Further Training
Essential
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
Desirable
- Knowledge of hospital information systems
- Understanding of Clinical Audit
- Understanding of confidentiality and standard and specialised medical terminology
Other Factors
Essential
- Flexible, able to work as part of a team or independently.
Special skills/Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent time-management skills and be capable of balancing routine tasks with more complex demands as they arise.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work accurately, particularly when dealing with conflicting deadlines
- Be able to monitor and plan in advance own workload and prioritise according to the needs of the service
- Proven team-player with the ability to work independently without direct supervision
- Be methodical and pay meticulous attention to detail
- Possess good literacy and numeracy skills and the ability to understand, record, communicate and analyse verbal and written information to a high standard
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills and confidence in dealing professionally with internal and external queries, referring on as appropriate
- Understand the sensitivity surrounding confidential issues
- Possess strong IT skills that must include Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access
Desirable
- Producing end of month reports, including analysing and presenting the data
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
Employer details
Employer name
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF