Overview
Clinical Study Manager – INTERNAL ONLY – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
About Us
The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women’s Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.
The KCL Department of Women and Children’s Health forms the research arm of the Women’s Health Academic Centre, King’s Health Partners, to develop synchrony and excellence between clinical service, research and teaching. King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts.
About the role
The post holder will be expected to manage the UNiCoRN (Understanding causes of hyperglycaemia in pregnancy) Study. This study aims to improve the understanding of the poorly understood pathways that lead to hyperglycaemia in pregnancy (gestational diabetes; GDM). Data from this study will help us to understand more about why and how hyperglycaemia develops aiming to optimise management and outcomes for individual women.
This is a multi-site (currently London and Leicester) prospective cohort study of 750 pregnant women, with 6 specific study visits (and data collection from routine ultrasound and pregnancy notes). Women will undertake two detailed glucose tolerance tests with blood sample and urine collection for hormonal analysis. This data will also create a dedicated and rich bioresource. In addition, we will collect complementary dietary and exercise data.
The post holder will:
- Manage administration for the study and actively contribut to the research planning and development in partnership with Principal Investigators, Executive and Steering Groups and Study Teams
- Be a key liaison with all university departments, relevant ethics and R&D committees, funding bodies etc
- Prepare and support meetings, boards, and committees, including the coordination and distribution of briefing documents and background materials, drafting presentations or taking minutes, as required
- Ensure all necessary approvals are in place, recruiting sites are initiated, staff are appropriately trained, and recruitment is maximised across all sites ensuring timely recruitment of study participants into studies
- Develop working guidelines for the trial as necessary and manage all communications with the Sponsor organisation
- Monitor the Trial Master File and version control all trial documents
The post holder will report to Dr Sara White, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Women’s Health and Diabetes and Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine (Clinical Biochemistry) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
This post will be offered as an internal secondment for six months.
It is a part time post, one month at 17.5 hours per week and five months at 8.75 hours per week.
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