Patient and Community Outreach Manager

You will be playing a key role in engaging with the public, patients, communities and other stakeholders within healthcare to help us raise awareness of health research, support recruitment to clinical trials, and ultimately improve health outcomes and health equity.

Key responsibilities for the Patient and Community Outreach Manager are as follows:

• Supports with the delivery of recruitment objectives for research and/or clinical trials by taking responsibility for the recruitment, engagement, and retention of patients on programmes.
• Builds a strong network with non-medical partners (e.g., patient advocacy groups, community networks, religious institutions, sport groups, social clubs, schools, retirement homes) to strengthen the awareness of clinical trials.
• Promotes and builds recognition of the COUCH Health brand with our network.
• Locates, schedules and facilitates various community-wide events that allows face-to-face interaction to obtain opt-in database leads.
• Cultivates and maintains respectable relations with the community, promotes research and attends community events.
• Ensures an increase to the database and actively contributes to initiatives and strategies to enrol potential participants onto the database.
• Distributes flyers, posters and other advertising material as appropriate to increase awareness of clinical research.
• Manages projects and acts as point of contact for various internal clients.