Research is a rewarding and patient centred career!

The research that we conduct at UHS is focused on the holistic approach to patient care and significantly contributes to the future progress of health care for all.

We truly make a difference to an individual's care and experience within UHS. We strive to ensure that research is considered as a treatment option for all eligible patients; closely working with clinical teams and within patients' clinical pathways to ensure that research opportunities and our research teams are expanding.

We currently have a full time vacancy within our Clinical Research Facility (CRF) Adult research nursing team.

ABOUT THE TEAM

There are approximately 300 Research Nurses, AHPs, Midwives and Clinical Trials Assistants, working together across the Trust, within our award winning teams to bring exciting research opportunities to UHS for the benefit of our patients and for the future of healthcare. 

The CRF Adult research nursing teams provide regular contact with patients and healthy volunteers participating in research that will make a real difference to future patient care. The team undertake drug trials, studies that look at different interventions as well as studies that help us understand how the body works, how genes or lifestyle choices affect health, and studies that help us more fully understand chronic diseases or acute infections. 

Working in the team you will have the opportunity to work on a range of studies including early phase research, neurodegenerative studies including atypical Parkinson's syndromes, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's as well as nutrition, human challenge and infectious diseases. With all studies, the well-being and safety of our research patients/ participants is at the heart of all we do as is our confidence that the data we provide is accurate and reproducible.

There is no set shift rotation and the majority of the time you will work Monday to Friday 8-4pm; however we expect that you will also work a variety of flexible hours including long days, night, and weekends on an adhoc basis as per your research study requirements. 

The Clinical Research Facility has adult and paediatric ward beds plus consulting rooms, a physiology lab, temperature-humidity controlled room and a bronchoscopy suite. Majority of research patients come from the Wessex region however the CRF is a national dosing centre for advanced therapy medication so patients come from all over the country for this treatment. 

The CRF is award winning with many of our nurses winning posters at national and international conferences, and wining prizes in national competitions in pharmacology and in nursing. The CRF is supported by its own education team and with close links to the University of Southampton; there are lots of opportunities to develop your career academically or professionally.