Location
London

Hours
Full Time

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 wide range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care nationally. The Trust is renowned for clinical excellence, 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 at Guy’s and St Thomas’ is a multidisciplinary group dedicated to improving treatment choices and outcomes for patients through innovative clinical trials.

This role is focused on the Natural History Study related to sickle cell disease (SCD), a severe genetic condition with increasing adult morbidity due to improved childhood survival. The Study Delivery Manager will lead the management of a portfolio of clinical studies and trials, ensuring regulatory compliance, successful patient recruitment, and smooth study delivery across UK sites.

The post holder will be responsible for coordinating study activities, managing communications, monitoring data quality, supporting patients and clinical teams, and overseeing administrative and financial aspects of the trials. This role requires close collaboration with principal investigators, clinical teams, research practitioners, and external collaborators to ensure high-quality delivery of exploratory medicine studies including clinical trials.

The position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful research within a world-leading NHS trust, supporting patients with complex conditions and advancing clinical knowledge in haematology.

Experience
- Understanding of clinical research methodology and clinical trials activities
- Experience in processing clinical study amendments and study set-up
- Facilitating patient recruitment and coordinating early phase clinical studies
- Patient-facing experience acting as a key contact throughout the patient journey
- Experience managing complex information or projects and maintaining source documentation
- Competent in Microsoft Office for data management

About you
- Ability to communicate complex information effectively at all levels
- Ability to educate and support clinical teams in trial methodology
- Ability to work sensitively with sick and chronically ill patients
- Strong organisational, decision-making and prioritisation skills
- Flexible, methodical, and attentive to detail
- Able to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Committed to personal and professional development
- Willingness to travel across NHS sites in the UK as required

Qualifications
- Educated to MSc level or equivalent experience in research governance and/or research conduct
- Specialist knowledge of research procedures
- Detailed knowledge of ICH GCP, R&D governance, EU Clinical Trials Directive and Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004

Desirable
- Experience working independently and within a team
- Experience within NHS or clinical academic research settings
- Experience in clinical haematology trials and understanding of relevant clinical conditions
- Experience handling monitoring visits and follow-up reports
- Experience in data quality control of large datasets and report writing
- Effective communication with patients and multidisciplinary teams in line with SOPs
- Adaptability and openness to professional development