A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Senior Research Information and Performance Officer is an integral role responsible for supporting the collection of research data, with the oversight of the Trust’s information system(s) to continually facilitate, strengthen and optimise the delivery of high-quality clinical research within the organisation. The ideal candidate should have experience data analytics with the ability to use a wide range of systems to represent complex data in a understandable way. The post holder will work under the direction of the Research Development and Delivery Manager to support the ongoing implementation of systems to record research performance against key performance indicators which include the NIHR’s High Level Objectives. The post-holder will work with individual clinicians and groups across the Trust to continuously maintain the integrity of our research information systems. The post-holder will work closely and collaboratively with the staff in the Joint Research & Enterprise Service and St Georges NIHR Clinical Research Facility to optimise the performance (generating and analysing metrics) of the research infrastructure and support services. The post- holder will also have operational oversight and be the link with NIHR South London Local Clinical Research Network (LCRN) to manage the Trust’s instance of the networks chosen Local Performance Management System (LPMS), currently EDGE. This is not a research set up and or direct delivery position.
• Responsible for management of the organisational instance of the Local (research) Performance Management System (LPMS) including monitoring, system administration and quality assurance of the system, ensuring corrective action is taken as
• Work closely with the Trust’s IT team, IG team to support implementation of research requirements into clinical systems.
• Contribute to the modernisation of information through the development and implementation of new business processes
• Proactively improve methods of data extraction, manipulation, analysis and presentation with a specific focus on explaining what the information means in addition to providing information and data in a basic format
• Take a lead role in the preparation and completion of performance and information reporting and documentation to national and local bodies such as NIHR , DHSC, NHS E
• Maintain interactive, internal Trust reporting systems, currently MS PowerBi based
• Maintain internal workflows of LPMS supporting study set up, delivery and finance activity
• Support development of research data systems across the Trust and Group
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St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has more secondary and tertiary clinical services on one site than any other organisation in London. Research is a key part of the Trust’s mission alongside clinical services and education. Clinical research occurs throughout the hospital and community divisions.
The role of the Joint Research and Enterprise Service (JRES) is to administer and facilitate research and enterprise activity across both the Trust and St George’s, University of London (SGUL). The JRES aims to support and facilitate research by effective and efficient financial management of research funding, and by ensuring that all research is conducted to the highest standards of governance and Good Clinical Practice. Research interests on the combined site are extremely wide-ranging, encompassing a spectrum from leading-edge fundamental investigations to applied clinical and health services research. It is the joint institutions’ explicit intention to link basic and clinical research strategically in order to capitalise on their co-location.
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
This advert closes on Sunday 4 Aug 2024
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