Data Manager

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to A level or equivalent
• NVQ3/foundation degree in a Healthcare related subject or working towards

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under‑represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus.

Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

The NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) is part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). It is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care to support the country’s world‑class research system to deliver high‑quality research that enables the best care for our population.

Our vision is that the UK is a global leader in the delivery of high quality, commercial and non‑commercial research that is inclusive, accessible, and improves health and care. Our mission is to enable the health and care system to attract, optimise and deliver research across England. We do this as part of the NIHR's overall mission to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research.

The North East and North Cumbria Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) is hosted by The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our Agile Research Delivery Team (ARDT) as a Data Manager. The primary purpose of this role is to support the collection and recording of high quality data relating to those participating in health and care research in Wider Care Settings.

This role will require regular travel across the geographical footprint of the North East and North Cumbria RRDN, however the post holder will be based at either Regent Point, Gosforth or James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.

• Engagement of sites
• Supporting the set‑up of research
• Taking consent from participants
• Recruitment to studies
• Data management and follow‑up

Our Agile Research Delivery Team is a group of dedicated staff based in our Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs) across England. They are skilled, multi‑disciplinary staff who can work flexibly across a variety of different locations to support research set‑up and delivery in health and social care.

Our regional teams can support studies at various stages as needed, including:

• Engagement of sites
• Supporting the set‑up of research
• Taking consent from participants
• Recruitment to studies
• Data management and follow‑up

One of our key aims is to ensure that everyone across the country has the opportunity to take part in research. Delivering health and social care research in places where people already access a wide variety of services helps us to do that.

• GP surgeries
• Hospices
• Care homes
• Schoo…