Clinical Trials Lead Nurse | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

This post is a part‑time (30 hours per week) fixed‑term 21‑month contract.

As a Clinical Trials Lead Nurse, you will provide operational leadership for the delivery of high‑quality clinical trials within the organisation. You will ensure that trials are conducted safely, ethically, and in accordance with regulatory, governance, and Good Clinical Practice standards. This is a critical role to R&D in the Trust and builds on the solid foundations of the research infrastructure at CPFT.

The post holder will be based in one of our R&D bases in the Trust, either at the Windsor Research Unit in Fulbourn Hospital or the Cavell Centre in Peterborough. They will be expected to travel between sites and to events relevant to the role.

Travel must be undertaken independently and timely across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to meet strict time deadlines.

You will provide line management, peer support, training, supervision, and play a key role in developing the skills and knowledge of the R&D research delivery workforce. You will ensure robust processes that support study setup efficiencies, participant experience, intervention delivery, and follow‑up across a portfolio of studies.

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, sponsors, investigators, and external partners; drive excellence in research delivery, promote a culture of evidence‑based practice, and enhance opportunities for patients to participate in clinical trials. The role is central to improving trial performance, expanding research capacity, and ensuring patients have equitable access to trial opportunities.

You will work in close partnership with the Research Delivery Lead to determine service priorities and coordinate effective workforce allocation.

This role plays a key part in achieving national performance metrics by ensuring high‑quality, timely, and efficient delivery of the clinical trials research portfolio, contributing directly to CPFT performance against national research delivery standards.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high‑quality care with compassion to improve health and wellbeing and to empower people to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly under‑represented groups, including people with long‑term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, your application will be rejected from the process.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the setup, conduct, and close‑down of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with protocols and regulatory standards.
• Support feasibility assessments and capacity planning for new studies.
• Ensure robust processes for screening, recruitment, informed consent, intervention delivery, and follow‑up.
• Provide expert clinical input into complex or high‑risk studies.
• Ensure accurate, timely data collection and documentation in line with GCP.
• Monitor trial performance metrics and implement improvement actions where required.
• Work collaboratively with R&D finance teams and sponsors to raise timely and accurate invoices for research activities, proactively resolving discrepancies and supporting robust financial governance across the research portfolio.
• Ensure adherence to GCP, UK Policy Framework for Health & Social Care Research, MHRA regulations, and local governance policies.
• Lead internal audits, quality checks, and readiness for external inspections.
• Maintain accurate essential documentation and trial master files/site files.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) for research delivery.
• Support incident investigations and implement learning outcomes.
• Ensure patient safety is prioritised throughout all research activities.
• Provide advanced clinical assessment and decision‑making for research participants.
• Support the management and reporting of adverse events and protocol deviations.

This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Apr 2026.

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