Clinical Ward Manager

Posted:
12/11/2024, 10:00:57 PM

Location(s):
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Medical, Clinical & Veterinary

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

 

410539 Clinical Ward Manager

 

As a Clinical Ward Manager at GSK, the successful applicant will play a pivotal role in leading and coordinating clinical operations within a specialized ward setting at our Addenbrookes site. This dynamic position involves overseeing patient care, managing multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring the highest standards of safety and compliance. You will have the opportunity to contribute to innovative treatments and therapies while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.  

This is a key leadership role where expertise in clinical management will directly support the success of cutting-edge pharmaceutical interventions and patient outcomes. 

This position is integral to the functional clinical core, having a major part in the operational and delivery of clinical studies and as a key link with internal and external collaborators and will also be fundamental in ensuring that all clinical aspects of studies and processes are executed in accordance with HTA, ICH GCP, GMP, Ethical, Regulatory requirements and GSK Policies and Procedures. 

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme. 

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work. 

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK 

 

In this role you will  

  • Lead in the clinical delivery and quality of multiple clinical studies conducted within the Clinical Unit Cambridge, with involvement from protocol development to execution and final study report.  

  • Use expertise in the execution of clinical conduct of multiple studies in the Clinical Unit Cambridge. 

  • Lead operational excellence, quality and data integrity in study conduct, ensuring successful execution of all study procedures. 

  • Connect clinically with the institutes in and around Cambridge stretching into the London area and in the experimental medicine network to work collaboratively and share best practices in experimental medicine studies. 

  • Ensure all studies proceed in accordance with the protocol, CUC procedures, company policies, ICH/GCP, regulatory and ethical requirements. 

  • Ensure subject safety and medical well being at all times and delivers immediate treatment in the event of a medical emergency. 

  • Lead, direct and train clinical staff in the conduct of all studies. 

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications & Skills:  

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 

  • Degree Registered Nurse with critical care experience or acute nursing experience, with active NMC Pin. 

  • Significant and varied experience in the conduct of clinical pharmacology studies. 

  • Broad understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and the clinical development process 

  • Demonstrated solid technical expertise and working familiarity with a number of methods, techniques, procedures and processes. 

  • Demonstrated competence in planning and executing multiple tasks. 

  • ALS or ILS certified.  

 

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:  

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply: 

  • MSc / Certificate  in clinical research  

  • A proven track record of successful study set up and delivery 

  • Competence and/or thorough knowledge of HTA, ICH GCP, GMP and GxP requirements, regulatory and ethical requirements, SOPs and policies. 

  • Ability to establish and build internal and external relationships at all levels in a highly dynamic and matrix environment  

  • Proven expertise in the proactive identification of issues which may impact clinical studies coupled with the ability to contribute to solutions affecting cross-functional matrix teams. 

Closing Date for Applications – January 5th, 2025 (COB) 

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application. 
 

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease. Science and technology are coming together in a way they never have before, and we have strong tech-enabled capabilities that allow us to build a deeper understanding of the patient, human biology and disease mechanisms, and transform medical discovery.  We are revolutionising the way we do R&D. We’re uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. 

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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