Research Administrator

To co-ordinate the administrative undertakings of the Senior Research Team. Provide a comprehensive administrative, personal assistant, and secretarial service to the core staff. Create, develop and maintain good office systems (establish appropriate paper and software based records systems and pro-active forward and progress monitoring system) essential for the smooth running of the service. Facilitate effective communication and co-ordination of activities between all members of the research teams and relevant local, regional and national agencies. Provide cross cover for secretarial colleagues during absences as directed by Line Manager as required. Play a key role in circulating and tracking responses to expressions of interest relating to NIHR portfolio, commercial and non commercial, studies and non portfolio studies with commercial sponsors Responsible for the procurement of goods and services for the research team and maintain paperwork for these. Calculate monies owed for previously agreed contracted clinical trial activities for approval by clinical trial sponsors. Deal with financial queries from external organisations and Trust finance department. Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.