Clinical Trials Support Nurse

Our mission is to beat blood cancer within a generation. Clinical trials play an important part in finding more effective and kinder treatments that support this aim. We are looking for a registered nurse to join us as a Clinical Trials Support Nurse in our innovative Clinical Trials Support Service.

You’ll be delivering high quality information and support to those looking to enter a blood cancer clinical trial. Working alongside a team of specialist nurses, you’ll be giving patients and their loved ones the knowledge and confidence to better understand and potentially access clinical trials, together with the time and space so often not available from their clinical team given the extensive pressures of the NHS.

You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in exciting project work as we look to increase our reach and value for the blood cancer community, ensuring clinical trials become more accessible for all.

You’ll have extensive haemato-oncology experience as a research, clinical trials or specialist nurse.

Expected travel for this role is: 4-8 days in the London office per quarter + two All-staff away days

We are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. In line with our strategy we welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including minority communities, and applicants with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

We welcome applications to work full time or part time (minimum 28 hours and or job share, please specify the hours you wish to work in your cover letter).

First stage online interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 6th May, with second stage in person interviews taking place on Monday 12th May.

Application DeadlineApril 29, 2025DepartmentResearch, Policy & Services Employment TypePermanentLocationLondon/HybridWorkplace typeHybridCompensation£42,000 - £45,000 / yearReporting To

Key Responsibilities

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Service Delivery

• Independently maintain own caseload of patients seeking enrolment into clinical trials and beyond; this includes assessing, educating, and objectively presenting information to patients or family members about available treatment options, including clinical trials
• Liaise with the Data Officer to ensure data is up to date and robust to enable us to better understand barriers for patients, our service impact and where we can influence change
• Support with the continuous promotion and marketing of the services, working to ensure that patients, clinicians and researchers are aware of and accessing the service
• Collaborate with our existing Support Services to educate and support patients and family members in their efforts to understand their diagnosis and treatment options.
• Serve in a consulting role to the Support Services and the wider organisation about clinical trials including leading on and delivering teaching sessions
• Maintain/increase knowledge and understanding of haematologic cancers, blood and bone marrow transplant and psychosocial aspects of living with cancer and ensure professional and personal development in line with maintaining NMC registration
• Contribute to continual process improvement of clinical trial support
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• Occasionally travel to national oncology/haematology meetings across the UK

Service Development

• Work with the Clinical Trials Support Service team in developing and expanding the service, supporting improved understanding of and access to clinical trials
• Support with developing the knowledge of and access to trials in audiences we are not currently reaching, especially those from minoritised groups
• Support with establishing effective working relationships with clinical staff across the UK, trials centre staff and pharmaceutical companies to understand the trials landscape
• Support with the development of effective policies and procedures to ensure the safe and effective running of this service
• Support with the sourcing of promotional materials and web content to market the service both online and offline
• Support with the development of peer-to-peer support services for our blood cancer community around clinical trials
• Contribute to cross organisational project work that is related to clinical trials including but not limited to our Major Appeal and Access to clinical trials project, all seeking to improve and increase access to trials.

THINGS WE ALL DO

• Promote Blood Cancer UK’s vision, mission and core values
• Support Blood Cancer UK’s commitment to actively promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity
• We’re all fundraisers. This is slightly different for all roles, and your team will have fundraising KPIs and objectives we all work to
• Attend and assist at Blood Cancer UK events and activities as required (NB this involves evening and weekend work)
• Be an effective ambassador for Blood Cancer UK at any activity you attend
• All staff are expected to adhere to Blood Cancer UK’s policies and procedures
• Do any other reasonable things your manager needs you to do.

Benefits

• Registered NMC nurse, with a commitment to maintaining registration
• Substantial recent / current experience in haemato-oncology as a research / trials / nurse specialist
• An understanding of the needs of people affected by blood cancer as well as their relatives and carers
• Experience of working with vulnerable adults needing support across different mediums
• A deep knowledge and understanding of the NHS and the clinical trials landscape, as well as health and social care-related issues
• Experience of cross team working and collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Working knowledge of data protection and safeguarding policies
• Understanding of the importance of regular service analysis and evaluation

About Blood Cancer UK

FLEXIBLE WORKING & OUR BENEFITS

We welcome conversations about part time working, job shares, and all forms of flexible working right from application stage. You can get in touch with us at [email protected] if you want to ask us anything about flexible working.

Benefits: We think our benefits are brilliant, and the majority start from day 1. These are just a few of them:

• 30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme and Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, as well as study leave and a day off to move house
• Wellbeing is a priority for us, we offer a wide range of individual and team support in our Wellbeing Hub
• Our Academy is our in-house Continued Professional Development (CPD) learning and development programme, including an internal mentoring scheme. We have organisation-wide focus days, which are days set aside for you to focus on your own development, without being interrupted by emails and meetings.
• Cycle to work and season ticket loans
• Opportunity to take sabbaticals

You can find full details about our benefits on our website.

Location: Working agile means we changed from having a culture where people are expected to be in the office from 9am to 5pm to one where we’re much more focused on what they deliver. We've built a positive culture where autonomy, trust, wellbeing and flexibility allow us to recruit and retain the very best people.   We recognise that teams still need to come together regularly to develop relationships and strengthen collaborative working.   Therefore, for the majority of roles, your contractual place of work will be one of our offices. The expectation for how often you will be required to attend the office is outlined in the job profile and will be discussed with you.   Details about our hybrid and agile working approach (including how travel expenses work) can be found on our website.

HOW TO APPLY

We ask you to send us a CV and cover letter. In your cover letter, we'd like to know why you're interested in working with us at Blood Cancer UK. It's also helpful if you tell us why you think you are a great candidate for this role based on the skills, knowledge and expertise section above. Your cover letter doesn't have to be too long, 1-2 pages is ideal. Please don't add photos or graphics to your CV, as we use blind shortlisting at this stage of the process.

Full details about our recruitment processes, including how we use blind shortlisting and what to expect at each stage of the process can be found on our website. Sometimes we close our vacancies early, usually because we have had a lot of great applicants, so we’d always encourage you to apply early rather than wait until the deadline.

WHY WORK AT BLOOD CANCER UK?

We're the 9th best charity in the UK to work for according to Best Companies 2021!

We started because of Susan, we’ll get there because of you.

Blood Cancer UK was started by one family who lost their daughter, Susan, to blood cancer, and that history and sense of family continues to shape who we are today. When you join Blood Cancer UK, you don’t just become an organisational employee – you become part of a collaborative community dedicated to funding research into beating blood cancer that includes some of the most inspiring people you’ll ever meet.

And we’re not that far away from beating blood cancer. We’re confident we can do it within the next generation, and this makes us hugely ambitious and gives us a sense of real urgency. It also means we’re changing quickly as an organisation as we constantly challenge ourselves and strive to become more and more effective. This pace of change means working here isn’t for everyone. But if you’re excited by the chance to work in a fast-paced, agile and supportive environment with the focus and ambition to beat blood cancer this could be the place for you! We focus on results rather than time spent at a desk, so we deliver more for people affected by blood cancer.

Blood Cancer UK offers the chance to work for and with people affected by blood cancer, and the opportunity to advance your career and develop your skillset whilst taking on exciting new challenges and making your mark.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We are committed to actively promoting equality, diversity, and inclusivity. Read our statement which reflects our strong drive to change in this area.

To this end we would welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including minoritised communities, and applicants with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

You can read some examples of how we can support you through the application and interview process here.

Documents

Clinical trails support nurse jd & person spec

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Clinical trials support nurse job pack

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