Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£46,419 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 is renowned for clinical excellence, high quality teaching and research, and is part of King’s Health Partners, an accredited UK academic health sciences centre. The Oncology and Haematology Clinical Trials (OHCT) team, comprising over ninety staff, works closely with medical teams to recruit and monitor patients across a large portfolio of Phase II and III trials, including early phase trials in the Clinical Research Facility.

The Research Business & Finance Officer will work within oncology and haematology clinical trials, providing comprehensive financial management and business support. The role’s primary focus is on financial monitoring, reporting, and ensuring timely recovery of clinical trial income. The post holder will coordinate research project and clinical trial setups, liaising with investigators, research teams, R&D, and external stakeholders.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to high-quality research delivery within a world-leading NHS Trust, supporting innovation and excellence in clinical trials that improve treatment choices and outcomes for cancer patients.

Experience
- Extensive business administration experience demonstrating key administrative support functions
- Experience in financial management and managing complex projects
- Experience teaching, assessing, or supervising others
- Experience managing complex information or projects
- Desirable: Experience within oncology and haematology clinical services, research coordination and delivery, line management, NHS financial systems and invoicing processes

About you
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships with staff and external bodies
- Ability to work unsupervised, prioritise workload, meet deadlines and accept responsibility
- Strong analytical and judgement skills, including understanding and applying complex statistical and numerical data
- Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage frequent interruptions and shifting priorities
- Able to work autonomously, as part of a small team, and within a wider multidisciplinary team
- Desirable: Ability to coordinate and organise activities to deliver study protocols, lead, teach, supervise and mentor others
- Highly motivated, enthusiastic, confident, articulate with strong presentation skills
- Commitment to achieving departmental objectives and maintaining high standards

Qualifications
- Educated to degree level and/or relevant experience
- ECDL or excellent PC literacy including Microsoft Office packages
- Ability to learn new software and databases as required
- Desirable: Theoretical knowledge equivalent to postgraduate diploma, GCP training, evidence of continuing professional development