Location
London

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£56,276 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust includes five well-known hospitals and community services, with a strong reputation for clinical excellence, research, and teaching. As part of King’s Health Partners, it offers world-class clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

As a Clinical Trials Start Up Specialist within the Oncology and Haematology Clinical Trials (OHCT) team, you will lead the initiation and set-up of commercial and non-commercial clinical trials. Your responsibilities include managing feasibility assessments, reviewing clinical trial budgets, conducting financial negotiations with sponsors and Contract Research Organisations (CROs), and ensuring the financial viability of trials. You will collaborate closely with the King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office (KHP-CTO), Guy’s and St Thomas’ R&D, support departments, research teams, and investigators to meet timelines and targets.

This role also involves overseeing the coordination of amendments, line management of the OHCT Imaging Coordinator and Roving Data Managers, and delivering training related to trial set-up. You will work autonomously managing a large portfolio of trials, contribute to business planning, and act as a resource for research staff on regulatory and approval matters.

The Trust is committed to providing high quality, safe, and efficient care with a motivated and engaged workforce. It supports flexible working arrangements and values diversity and inclusion in its workforce and patient care.

Experience
- Significant experience in clinical research coordination, managing own portfolio of studies
- Experience running clinical trials including budget negotiations and liaison with external departments
- Knowledge and experience handling complex relationships
- Experience mentoring, developing, and supervising junior staff
- Experience teaching, assessing, and supervising others
- Experience managing complex projects
- Desirable: Experience within oncology and haematology clinical services, managerial/team lead experience, financial management experience

About you
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective relationships with a variety of staff and external bodies
- Ability to provide highly specialist advice to relevant stakeholders
- Awareness of changing trends within research and clinical trials
- Up-to-date knowledge relevant to clinical research and good clinical practice
- Ability to set direction, prioritise workload, and meet deadlines
- Strong analytical and judgement skills including understanding complex statistical and numerical data
- Ability to lead, teach, supervise, and mentor others in clinical research delivery
- Confident, articulate, and able to negotiate in complex situations
- Presentation skills
- Desirable: Ability to carry out audits
- Flexible and positive approach to work
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic

Qualifications
- Master’s degree in life sciences or related field OR demonstrable equivalent theoretical knowledge/experience
- GCP (Good Clinical Practice) certificate
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Desirable: Teaching experience, Project Management Qualification (e.g. PRINCE2)