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Project manage three clinical trials as part of a wider £4million project grant awarded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). Trials are investigating different ways to support university students with their mental health and wellbeing, such as accessing online digital therapies to assist with anxiety and/or depression, an app to help with worry or a workbook to help with resilience. Write and submit regular reports to oversight committees and to the MRC detailing project progress, delays and financial expenditure over set time frames according to the original grant. Create and maintain detailed Gantt charts outlining project milestones, progress and delays. Successfully obtained Sponsor and ethical approval for trial amendments updating the trial design and documents in order to improve recruitment and retention. Routinely conduct risk assessments and actively monitor and review all data obtained against a monitoring plan. Developed a process for reporting, assessing and actioning safety events and act promptly and decisively when safety events are reported. Meticulous record keeping of all trial documents and participant data. Confident using a wide range of Office 365 tools to assist with successfully project managing the trials on a daily basis and adept at developing and testing electronic data capture systems, working closely with database teams to implement surveys.Maintain excellent working relationships with academic professionals, clinical psychologists, therapists and UK and internationally based external stakeholders and partners, responding quickly to requests for reports on trial activity or highlighting issues that require prompt action and decision making. Regularly liaise with student participants troubleshooting any issues experienced on the software programs, managing payments and responding and escalating calmly and swiftly to appropriate lines of care when serious mental health issues are raised.

Represent and deputise for the Research & Development Manager as appropriate, responsible for line managing and performing development reviews for 6 staff members and also for recruiting members of staff to the department through shortlisting and interviewing. Support the R&D Manager in the operational management of the Clinical Research Facility and project manage new initiatives in support of the strategic direction. Promote and communicate news, events and opportunities via social media, intranet, internet and newsletters/bulletins, liaising with the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board’s (CTMUHB) and Health and Care Research Wales (HCRW) communications teams. Across primary, community and secondary care including social care and population health provide support and expert advice to research active professionals and junior members of staff on writing protocols and drafting research documents, the completion of research application forms, portfolio adoption, research passport, external funding and sourcing funding for research.Undertake detailed governance reviews of research studies. Remain up to date with research policies, regulation and legislation. Provide support to researchers in reporting the budget management of externally awarded research funding in collaboration with the finance team and assist the R&D Manager in the collation of information on financial income and expenditure for research projects and also in reviewing and negotiating research contracts. Leading the development and implementation of new research related Standard Operating Procedures and policies ahead of implementation. Contribute to other R&D, reports and plans within agreed deadlines and timeframes.Contributed to the management of the health board's annual R&D conference in November 2022 developing for the first time an event app for all delegates to use for networking purposes and to view all submitted abstracts, posters, presentation slides and conference agenda.

INSPIRE- Coordinate and manage a prehabilitation based, interventional, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial in which a cohort of patients from cardiac, abdominal and thoracic surgical specialties use a hand-held breathing device to practice breathing exercises before surgery.Developed the study protocol and prepared patient-facing and regulatory documents resulting in successful Research Ethics Committee approval. Confident delivering training to hospital staff in person or virtually. Adaptable to change and unexpected events, calm when problem-solving under pressure and able to prioritise workload responsibly. Skilled in organising and maintaining a paper and electronic Trial Master File and study mailbox and routinely monitor and audit a study database and a device tracking system. Prepare and chair meetings with internal and external collaborators. Able to coordinate and manage the preparation and publishing of progress reports to tight deadlines. Accomplished in producing minutes and written reports along with trial communications for websites and social media. Confidently establish excellent working relationships with all trial collaborators internally and externally and have 5 years experience training and supervising assistant trial coordinators.Set up a Patient Public Involvement (PPI) group liaising closely with public contributors and facilitating meetings in person and virtually. Planned and chaired the unit’s PPI group guiding members through the development of guidance documents and sharing knowledge and expertise. Long term member of the unit Standard Operating Procedures group maintaining and developing documentation and study templates.Managed an ophthalmology multi-centre study from set up through to study end including archive and publication of results and alongside this managed a substantial amendment in conjunction with an US genomic sequencing company, for a lung cancer sub-study involving primary care centres in the UK.

I worked on a wide range of ophthalmological interventional and observational studies under the guidance of several different Principal Investigators. Disease areas covered include diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, central retinal vein occlusions, uveitis and Vitreo-retinal conditions. My role included consenting patients to observational studies, administering questionnaires, completing follow up calls with patients, performing venepuncture and recording vital signs and assisting the consultants with the interventional studies. I performed data entry on a wide range of studies and assist with the majority of monitor visits that occur on site. I assisted with study set ups and site initiation visits. I performed a wide range of administrative duties within the research field such as appointment booking, requesting case notes and pathology reports and processing amendments.

I have worked with Professor Hugh Barr on a wide range of Upper Gastrointestinal observational and interventional clinical studies for patients diagnosed with Barrett's Oesophagus or oesophageal cancer. My role included consenting patients to observational studies, administering questionnaires, completing follow up calls with patients, performing venepuncture and recording vital signs and assisting the consultants with the interventional studies.