Careers with Panthera

Careers with Panthera

Current Vacancies

See what role is right for you with Panthera. Click through the positions below to learn more about the roles within research and what a day in the life looks like at Panthera Biopartners.

Clinical Research Physician

Glasgow

At Panthera Biopartners, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do, to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers, participants and employees. We want people who are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate and curious about what science can do.

If this sounds like you, then you’re our kind of person!

As a distinguished professional in Medicine, you will be at the forefront of our growth. As we look to accelerate our clinical breakthroughs for our patients, customers and future generations. We are looking for a forward-thinking individual with excellent communication skills. This candidate should be proactive and striving to grow and succeed with the organisation.

Job Summary

As a Research Physician you will contribute to the commercial success of Panthera through the studies in which we take part. You will Co-investigate were you will have the responsibilities of ensuring ICH/GCP and local regulation are met. Depending on your experience and expertise you will also be Principal Investigator (PI) or Sub investigator accepting responsibility for research studies. As you work on multiple studies you will take leadership and guide colleagues through the studies. You will also be active in recruitment for the studies at sites and build contacts with other health care professionals as and when needed.

Role and responsibilities:

  • As Co-Investigator you will need to ensure all training is met for each member of the research site, not only for the specific study but making sure all SOP/COPs are adhered to and ICH/GCP and any local regulations are met.
  • Ensuring all clinical trials are conducted according to Protocol, recruiting patients who are eligible for the study.
  • Adhere to the study delegation logs as to specific tasks to be performed by you.
  • Whenever Serious Adverse Events/Adverse Events occur, these are reported on within the time scale outlined.
  • Look after the wellbeing of the trial participant and make referrals for the patient to third parties or patients own GP as appropriate.
  • All study documentation should be legible, concise and accurate. This should be signed off and any queries dealt with within the agreed timeframes.
  • Work within the guidelines of the company SOP/COPs.
  • Participation in the out of hours/on call rota which is set out for all Panthera Research Physicians is mandatory.
  • Working at other Panthera sites or working different hours or days will be required on occasion.
  • Competency assessments should be performed every 3 months. A training portfolio should always be kept up to date. Any training should be signed of in a timely manner.
  • Has overall responsibility of the study at site
  • Performs PI oversight on a regular basis at least once a week
  • Oversees staff training for the study and makes sure they are delegated on logs
  • Ensures the quality of all study documentation
  • Holds regular meetings with the CRA and acts on any feedback given regarding site performance
  • Participates in any internal or external audits and regulatory inspection

Skills and capabilities for this role:

  • GMC registered
  • License to practice medicine
  • Ideally experienced in Clinical Research/clinical medicine
  • Demonstrate leadership skills
  • Competent in knowledge of ICH/GCP
  • Understands in detail clinical trial legislation
  • Fully aware of Panthera Standard operating procedures (SOP)
  • Expert in clinical trial procedures

There are so many fantastic benefits included when you join Panthera, below are some of those:

  • A very competitive salary £80,000 – £95,000 + Bonus
  • 25 days holiday a year + bank holidays
  • Enhanced Employer Pension Contributions
  • Annual bonus (based part on individual and part based on company performance)
  • Car leasing scheme – Salary sacrifice scheme for electric car options.
  • Enhanced Family Policies (Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental & Adoption Leave).

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation. This means we’re opening new ways to work, ground-breaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together

Interested? Come and join our journey!

Panthera Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. Panthera will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. Panthera only employs individuals with the right to work in the country where the role is advertised.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £80,000.00-£95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • Private dental insurance
  • Private medical insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Glasgow City Centre: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
 

Site Manager

Preston

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Site Manager to join our Preston Clinical Research Site.

Reporting to the Site Operations Director, you will be responsible for the Clinical Research Site (CRS) in Sheffield, with full accountability for all aspects of quality, delivery, optimisation, employee and financial targets.

Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.

We put the patient at the heart of everything we do to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers and participants. Accelerating clinical breakthrough for our customers, our patients, and for future generations.

Job Summary

The post holder will be responsible for the Clinical Research Site strategy and development, maximising site growth opportunities, ensuring all Clinical Research Site (CRS) KPIs and associated commercial objectives are met.

The post holder will be accountable for ensuring that the CRS is a welcoming environment for our patients, ensuring they are always treated with dignity, privacy and safety as our number one priority.

The normal working hours for the post are Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm.

Key Responsibilities

Forecast and mange resource requirements for the Site in accordance with Panthera business plans to ensure that commercial targets and site objectives are met.

Engage in operational support & collaboration across other Panthera CRS’s, to ensure consistency in operational and quality standards.

Ensure overall compliance with company quality framework (SOP’s), legislation, guidelines and ICH GCP standards.

Performance management & leadership – performance reviews and objectives to be set at regular intervals to ensure realistic targets and performance expectations are achieved. Responsible for a team of up to 10 FTE, reviewing performance and development, coaching and developing training plans where required.

Ensure that all clinical and personal training objectives are met.

Meet Sponsor quality objectives ensuring effective and efficient processes, procedures and documentation are in place to aid delivery and meet customer requirements.

Building relationships with vendors, ensuring that relevant service agreements, confidentiality agreements are in place, and best value for services are always considered without compromising on quality.

Business development & growth – promoting Panthera through marketing & brand awareness opportunities/events.

Ideal Candidate

Excellent people skills, strong people management experience supported by your ability to motivate and cross functional teams. You will have a track record of successful engagement with staff, stakeholders, maintaining customer/patient engagement at all times.

Working well under pressure from your own initiative, you will be confident to implement operational changes as required.

Ability to successfully manage and deliver multiple projects and improvements through change management/team engagement

An approachable, enthusiastic individual paired with an infectious attitude and passion to truly make a difference

Salary & Benefits Package

  • A very competitive salary
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Life insurance, 3x annual salary
  • Employee healthcare cash plan programme
  • Employee Assistant Programme
  • Enhanced sickness and family friendly policies

All Sites are maintaining social distancing measures.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £43,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • On-site parking
  • Private dental insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Preston: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
 

Healthcare Professionals – Nurses – Healthcare Assistants – Vaccinators – 3 month FTC

Sheffield – Preston – Rochdale

Immediate start dates available – Full time & Part time positions available.

No weekend working

At Panthera Biopartners, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do, to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers, participants and employees. We want people who are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate and curious about what science can do.

If this sounds like you, then you’re our kind of person!

As we look to accelerate our clinical breakthroughs for our patients, customers and future generations. We are looking for forward-thinking individuals with experience in the clinical world.

What we are looking for:

  • Research Nurses
  • Healthcare Assistants
  • Vaccinators
  • Enthusiastic people who will be active members of a very exciting study that we will be commencing with in October.
  • Candidates with an interest in Research.

There are so many fantastic benefits included when you join Panthera, below are some of those:

  • A very competitive salary
  • 25 days holiday a year + bank holidays
  • Enhanced Employer Pension Contributions
  • Annual bonus (based part on individual and part based on company performance)
  • Car leasing scheme – Salary sacrifice scheme for electric car options.
  • Medicash plan – Reclaim doctor, dentist & optician expenses.
  • Enhanced Family Policies (Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental & Adoption Leave).

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation. This means we’re opening new ways to work, ground-breaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together

Interested? Come and join our journey!

Panthera Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. Panthera will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. Panthera only employs individuals with the right to work in the country where the role is advertised.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract, Temporary contract
Contract length: 3 months

Salary: £25,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Flexitime
  • On-site parking
  • Private dental insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Preston, Lancashire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

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Clinical Trial Support Officer (CTSO)

Sheffield

Have you thought about working in Clinical Trials?

Are you a Health Care Assistant looking for a new challenge?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Trial Support Officers (CTSO) to join our team in our Rochdale Site. We are looking for a team member who is enthusiastic and pro-active, with excellent people skills. You will also need to have an eye for detail and be focused on quality.

Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.

We put the patient at the heart of everything we do to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers and participants. Accelerating clinical breakthrough for our customers, our patients, and for future generations.

Job Summary

The CTSO will be working closely with our Research Nurses and Site Manager to ensure efficient set up and conduct of study visits. The role will involve a broad range of tasks including conducting patient assessments to support study visits, data collection and entry, laboratory stock control and courier arrangement, sample collection, processing and shipping.

There may be a requirement to work across local Panthera sites as required from time to time.

Key Responsibilities

  • Building key relationships with stakeholders, colleagues, clients, monitors, CRA’s and patients
  • Effective communication with the site team, including management of emails, phone calls etc
  • Assisting with preparation for clinical visits
  • Support screening processes and preparation for start-up of clinical trials
  • Responsible for complex data collection, transcribing information into case report forms in accordance with Good Clinical Practice
  • Ensuring patient notes are always complete and up to date
  • Take personal responsibility for safeguarding and ensuring the quality of information for patients, clients and vendors

Ideal Candidate

  • Educated to degree level in life sciences or a health-related field
  • Experience working in a clinical research environment
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Experience in processing complex information (Data Entry)
  • Pro-active mind set and motivated to learn new skills

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent.

Panthera Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. Panthera will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. Panthera only employs individuals with the right to work in the country where the role is advertised.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £22,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Flexitime
  • On-site parking
  • Private dental insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Sheffield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

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Site Compliance Specialist

Sheffield

We have an exciting opportunity for a Site Compliance Specialist to join our expanding research site in Sheffield.

Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.

Our mission is to improve patient access to clinical trials across the United Kingdom but also to promote awareness on the importance of clinical research in healthcare.

Job Summary

The Site Compliance Specialist will be responsible for providing oversight, mentoring and guidance to staff and ensuring compliance with all appropriate guidelines for legal, regulatory, and site compliance, as well as company policies and procedures.

They will also provide support to the site regarding Quality Management System (QMS), follow-up on CAPAs, preparation for internal and external audits, operational compliance checks, identification and/or support in reporting of QI and communication of any issues with site.

Key Responsibilities

  • Building key relationships with stakeholders, colleagues, clients, monitors and CRA’s
  • Responsible for complex data collection, transcribing information into case report forms in accordance with Good Clinical Practice
  • Ensuring accuracy and high quality of data input in to Panthera systems
  • Ensuring patient notes are always complete and up to date
  • Responsibility for safeguarding and ensuring the quality of information for patients, clients and vendors
  • Prepares individual/site operational compliance plans and performs quarterly operational compliance check activities.
  • Prepares associated reports and follows up on quality issues from all sources and related CAPAs.
  • Performs regular quality control and oversees that quality of data is accurate, on time and adheres to latest approved SOPs, COP’s standards, GCPs, Local Regulatory and protocol.
  • Validates and checks quality of essential documents, participant files and site study data, ensuring accuracy of data entered and source documents and reports discrepancies.
  • Develops, maintains and produces a dashboard for tracking patients, flow of CRFs, and queries, ensuring that this is provided in a timely manner.
  • Conducts, hosts, and produces meeting minutes and actions for departmental and other relevant meetings, ensuring that issues impacting on business are highlighted to senior leaders as needed.
  • Monitor’s quality and training processes to ensure appropriate timelines are met
  • Completes the preparation for monitoring visit duties and audits and clarifies concerns related to CRF completions; resolves queries as well as CAPA reporting and basic root cause analyses.
  • Identifies trends in data queries and escalates appropriately.
  • Supports QA regarding notifications, preparations and facilitation of client audit and regulatory inspections, investigations of quality issues and tracking and follow up of local CAPA status.
  • Ensures that quality and patient safety are at the forefront of all activities through review and interpretations of audit reports, quality statistics and operating procedure robustness, and follows up on quality issues.
  • Ensures robust application and compliance with Good Clinical Practice and Data Protection Act or SOPs, QA and applicable regulatory guidelines

Ideal Candidate

  • Degree level or equivalent experience
  • Strong interpersonal, leadership and consultative skills
  • Experience with the preparation of and collation of regulatory documents for ethics submissions
  • Ability to take detailed and accurate notes, transposing and recording information
  • Proactive mind set, motivated and keen to learn new skills
  • Committed to improving quality through research
  • Able to demonstrate commercial awareness
  • Comprehensive industry knowledge of quality compliance, GCP

Salary & Benefits Package

  • Competitive Salary
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Life insurance, 3x annual salary
  • Employee healthcare cash plan programme + Employee Assistant Programme
  • Enhanced sickness and family friendly policies

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £27,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • On-site parking
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Holidays
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

  • Performance bonus
  • Quarterly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Sheffield, S2 5FX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

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Research Nurse

No weekend work or night shifts.

Sheffield

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and motivated Research Nurse to join our expanding research site in Sheffield.

Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.

We put the patient at the heart of everything we do to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers and participants. Accelerating clinical breakthrough for our customers, our patients, and for future generations.

Job Summary

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that nursing activities, related to clinical trials across a wide and diverse range of therapeutic areas, are undertaken following Nursing and Midwifery Council guidelines and as per Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP). You will work alongside the wider clinical research team in the assessment and management of patient care pathways. This will involve recruitment, education, monitoring of research participants and the collection and documentation of accurate data.

As a skilled communicator, the successful candidate, must also possess excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills and be able to act as an ambassador for promoting research utilisation and best practice.

The normal working hours for the post are Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm, although the post holder may need to be flexible to accommodate patient visits and assessments outside of these hours when required.

Key Responsibilities

– Manage nursing activities relating to clinical trials from the start up on a trial to the close out, working to ICH/GCP guidelines

– Attend site initiation visits (SIV) for any new study and keep up to date with any changes with the study protocols

– Perform PIV patient interest visits (chats) effectively with knowledge and understanding of the study protocol

– Keep patients engaged with the study at each visit to optimize patient retention

– Collecting records, verifying, and entering study data into the source notes, CRF/eCRF and all associated paperwork with a high degree of accuracy

– Promoting and nurturing a welcoming, professional and pleasant environment for staff and participants

– Ensuring that all data queries are acted upon in a timely and efficient manner

– Initiating any emergency reaction when required at site for patients or staff

– Review and regularly check the emergency trolley

– To be able to perform laboratory duties on each study if required

– Always work in compliance of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

– To keep up to date with all training, ongoing SOPs/COPs and regulatory standards

Ideal Candidate

– NMC Registration with no limitations to practice

– 2+ years post registration experience

– Clinical research experience (desirable)

– Ability to work in a team within a multidisciplinary environment with minimal supervision

– A patient focussed attitude

– Self-motivated and excellent organisational skills

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation. This means we’re opening new ways to work, ground-breaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together

Interested? Come and join our journey!

Panthera Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. Panthera will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. Panthera only employs individuals with the right to work in the country where the role is advertised.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £32,500.00-£40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount
  • Life insurance
  • On-site parking
  • Private dental insurance
  • Private medical insurance
  • Sick pay

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme
  • Performance bonus
  • Quarterly bonus

COVID-19 considerations:
All local COVID-19 Guidelines followed

Licence/Certification:

  • NMC (required)

Work Location: One location

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Patient Coordinator

Enfield

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Coordinator to join our Preston Clinical Research Site.

Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.

We put the patient at the heart of everything we do to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers and participants. Accelerating clinical breakthrough for our customers, our patients, and for future generations.

Salary & Benefits Package

  • £22,000 – £25,000
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Life insurance, 3x annual salary
  • Employee healthcare cash plan programme
  • Employee Assistant Programme
  • Enhanced sickness and family friendly policies

Job Summary

The Patient Coordinator will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination and administration of the Clinical Research Site, ensuring the filing system are maintained for patient notes and the clinic notes are ready for the next day’s clinic; as well as supporting the Site Manager with services coordination such as vendor management, purchasing, quality systems management, diary management and administration.

The Patient Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that the Clinical Research Site is a welcoming environment for our patients, ensuring they are always treated with dignity, privacy and safety as our number one priority.

There may be a requirement to work across local Panthera sites as required from time to time.

Ideal Candidate

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, friendly and approachable
  • Pro-active and enthusiastic to ensure that high quality support and patient care is provided.
  • Evidence of experience working in a similar environment.
  • Previous experience in the healthcare sector is desirable but not essential.

Panthera Biopartners provided the following inclusive hiring information:

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or disability status.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £22,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • On-site parking
  • Private dental insurance
  • Private medical insurance
  • Sick pay
  • Store discount

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Performance bonus
  • Quarterly bonus

COVID-19 considerations:
Social distancing guidelines are adhered to within all of our sites across the UK.

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Enfield, EN3 4GS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

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