Research Midwife

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Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Blackpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

The Research midwife is a facilitator and collaborator within a team working on Commercial and NIHR portfolio studies within a number of clinical areas within Midwifery. The post holder holds responsibility for the co-ordination in the recruitment, care and monitoring of research subjects at the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The recruitment, care and monitoring of research subjects is carried out in accordance with research governance and regulations. The post holder will work closely with the clinical lead in the completion of comprehensive documentation required by the Ethics Committees – local and national, for ethical review and approval of the research study. The post holder adheres to Departmental, Trust and National Institute for Health Research policies, established health professional procedures and practices.

1. The Research midwife plans and supports programmes for screening, recruitment,monitoring and retention of research subjects in accordance with protocol and International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) Good Clinical Practice standards covering a 24 hour, 7day service.

2. The Research midwife is responsible for the planning and implementation of protocols in accordance with research parameters as set out by the Chief and Principal Investigators.

3. The Research midwife establishes appropriate data collection systems for patient data and monitoring data, in accordance with the research protocol. This includes the creation and maintenance of databases for study progression.

4. The Research midwife maintains complete source documentation and Site Investigators File for…