Head of Clinical Trial Recruitment – Workforce

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📋 Description

• Serve as strategic and operational lead within the NIHR Life Sciences Industry Hub • Co-develop and drive the overall implementation plan to increase recruitment for commercial clinical trials across NHS R&D infrastructure • Act as consultant and operational link between the NIHR, NHS R&D networks, and commercial life sciences sector • Manage recruitment processes covering essential support service agreements within the UK commercial portfolio • Develop and implement national recruitment improvement workstreams • Link NIHR R&D, NHS infrastructure, and commercial industry sponsors to increase recruitment reliability and address enrolment challenges • Collaborate with NIHR Infrastructure and the wider research ecosystem to remove operational silos between study set-up and trial delivery • Align national workforce and recruitment strategies with the NIHR Industry Hub Commercial Portfolio Lifecycle and national research priorities • Define growth benchmarks and models to improve year-on-year recruitment growth and screening consistency • Establish national and specialty-specific growth benchmarks for high-volume and specialised therapeutic areas • Analyse recruitment performance, including post-FPFV drop-offs, zero-enrolling sites, and lower-recruiting study phases across NHS Trusts • Address complex recruitment blockages, site-level capacity constraints, and trial accrual failures related to customer concerns • Identify workforce, service, and infrastructure constraints and introduce alternative and shared capacity models • Analyse research income recovery and distribution across Trusts • Develop and share reinvestment principles with R&D departments to strengthen clinical research workforce capacity

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive operational experience in driving clinical-trial recruitment, participant retention, and delivery to target within NHS research and development or a commercial sponsor environment • Experience navigating the UK clinical-trials lifecycle, including operational collaboration with the HRA, MHRA, and NIHR Research Delivery Network systems • Substantial experience in workforce-capacity planning, clinical-team resourcing, or managing R&D financial recovery/reinvestment structures within the NHS • Deep understanding of post-set-up trial-delivery challenges, recruitment-performance analytics, and clinical-research workforce dynamics across secondary, primary, and specialized care • Highly developed consultation and negotiation skills, with the proven ability to bridge commercial industry requirements and NHS system capacity • Proficiency in data-driven project management, including operational dashboards used to monitor recruitment velocity, identify underperforming sites, and mitigate delivery risks • Preferred: Experience leading large-scale operational change or scaling standardised pathways across multiple health boards or networks • Preferred: Detailed knowledge of the regulatory landscape and technical-assurance requirements governing ATMPs, oncology, or multi-setting and decentralised clinical trials

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Equal-opportunity employment

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