HRA Team Lead

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

1/17/2025

Application Deadline: 9 February 2025

Department: Imaging

Location: Cheadle

Compensation: £34,394 / year

Description

UK Biobank are seeking to hire a Health Research Team Lead to join our team based in Cheadle to play a key role in the biggest research study of its kind ever undertaken.

UK Biobank is quite unique in its great work/life balance offering:

• No 'on call'


• No night shifts


• Typical 40 hour week


• 10 hour shifts per day between 7.30am-8.30pm


• 7 day week with weekend rates


• 30% Salary uplift on Sundays and Bank Holidays


• 15% Salary uplift on Saturdays


• Paid overtime available


• Christmas and Easter shut down


• HCPC fees paid


• Free parking


• Free lunch (on shift)


• USS contributory Pension Scheme


• Generous annual leave allowance


• Holiday buy scheme (buy up to 1 week of additional leave per year)


• An additional paid day off for your birthday


• Enhanced family leave


• Life Assurance cover


• Employee Assistance Programme

Can you do it?

You will be responsible for;

• Preparing staff rota's and ensuring the imaging centre is adequately staffed in line with the operational schedule.


• Responsible for ensuring the HRA team adhere to all applicable SOP's, procedures and policies and the general operational rules of the imaging centre are adhered to.


• Assisting the investigation and resolution of any quality control issues.


• Working closely with lab to ensure laboratory QC is maintained at a consistently high level and laboratory KPI's are met.


• Take a proactive role in reporting feedback and lessons learned from the imaging centre operation to the project team.


• Monitoring and evaluating individual and team performance


• Overseeing the running of the team and delivering positive and constructive feedback.


• Pro-actively highlighting identified risks and issues and working with the Core Imaging Project Team to form risk assessments and update/produce SOPs as necessary.


• Ensuring equipment issues are escalated promptly and seeing them through to resolution


• Ensuring stock control procedures are adhered to and any stock shortages or issues are identified and escalated promptly.

As well as working in a hands-on HRA capacity;

• Ensuring participant welfare throughout their visit with good level of quality care


• Ensuring participant's details are correctly identified prior to the examination


• Maintain the confidentiality of volunteers and staff


• Obtain blood samples via Venepuncture (training provided)


• Conduct physical measures to collect data from the participant


• Conduct study interviews with participants to obtain health information

Is this ‘You’?

Reporting to the Imaging Centre Manager you will have;

• Experience of working in a clinical or medical environment.


• Experience of line/people management and team leadership


• Venepuncture skills including a clear understanding of venepuncture safety and infection control.


• Excellent interpersonal skills and be able to clearly explain procedures and instructions to participants.


• Ability to undertake repetitive tasks to a high quality.


• Ability to escalate issues to the relevant person effectively.


• Must be disciplined in relation to following protocols and procedures.


• Must be proficient in IT (Microsoft Office).


• Must be able to maintain confidentiality when working with patient information.


• Willingness to travel to other sites as required.

Our passion for diversity and equality means creating a work environment for all employees that is welcoming, respectful, engaging, and enriched with opportunities for personal and professional development.

What's on offer

We have a range of benefits here at UK Biobank, some of the highlights of those are:

• 30% Salary uplift on Sundays and Bank Holidays


• 15% Salary uplift on Saturdays


• Fantastic work-life balance, no night shifts


• USS Pension Scheme which is a 'hybrid' defined benefit/defined contribution scheme


• 6.8 weeks' annual leave (which increases with length of service, including Christmas closure)


• Holiday buy scheme (buy up to 1 week of additional leave per year)


• A paid day off for your birthday (in addition to annual leave)


• Enhanced family leave (available from day 1 of employment)


• Subsidised lunches (£5.50 contribution per day when working on site) and refreshments


• Cycle to work scheme


• Employee discounts portal


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Eye-care scheme


• Annual flu vaccination


• Life Assurance cover

The job advert closing date may change, so we recommend that if you are planning to apply that you do so without delay.