Assistant Clinical Research Practitioner

For questions about this job, contact:

Lauren Stanton
Clinical Research Practitioner
lauren.stanton3@nhs.net

Shortlisting Date: 15th October 2026
Interview Date: 28th October 2026

Job Summary

Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you want to work in a variety of settings across different organisations? The Agile Research Delivery Team (ARDT) is looking for experienced Clinical Trials Assistant wishing to make the move to an Assistant Clinical Research Practitioner (ACRP) working in a dynamic mobile team. This advert is for the a post available in the Humber and North Yorkshire region.

The ARDT works across Secondary Care, Primary Care and Wider Care settings, delivering a variety of Commercial and Non-Commercial research studies and trials. The Assistant Clinical Research Practitioner post would ideally suit someone who has experience of supporting the delivery of research in a dynamic environment and/or experience of community based practice

These posts will be employed through Leeds Teaching Hospitals with the operational base being Humber Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust or the Wizu Workspace in York, depending on the location of the successful candidate.

The ARDT Assistant CRP will be required to travel throughout the Humber and North Yorkshire region delivering all aspects of clinical and non-clinical research.

The following areas of experience are advantageous however not essential, Commercial Research Delivery, Mental Health, Community Care, Supporting those living with Dementia and Prisons.

Why you should join our Team

The NIHR RRDNs have three key roles.

• First, to provide support to research sites to enable the effective and efficient initiation

and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England.

• Second, to enable the strategic development of new and more effective research

delivery capability and capacity. This includes bringing research to under-served regions

and communities with major health and care needs.

• Third, to work jointly with the Coordinating Centre in the strategic oversight of the NIHR

RDN. This ensures that the Portfolio is maintained as a cohort of high-quality, fully-funded, viable and deliverable studies. It also ensures that the NIHR RDN as a whole serves the needs of researchers and R&D teams and is responsive to the changing domestic and global environment for health and care, life sciences and health research.

The Agile Research Delivery Team form part of the Regional Research Delivery Network for Yorkshire and Humber. We support the delivery of research across multiple locations and settings, broadly speaking in Secondary Care and Wider Care Settings.

What you will bring to the role

This post is a community based role, covering the Humber and North Yorkshire area, therefore travel is a requirement of the role. The ARDT work both in and out of the hospital setting. Delivering NIHR Portfolio adopted research in Wider Care Settings and the community requires the post holder to have a flexible approach, excellent planning and time management skills.

This is an entry level post within the ARDT however it will be advantageous for the prospective candidates to demonstrate experience of supporting the delivery of both commercial and non-commercial research and have knowledge of the legislative frameworks governing safe and effective research delivery.

Applicants should possess the necessary clinical skills required to deliver all aspects of clinical research such as phlebotomy, EGC recording and sample processing.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

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Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.