Clinical Research Specialist

Description

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Summary:
Conducts studies as outlined by protocol, educating patients and families, ensuring compliance, and following all established protocols and guidelines.

Responsibilities:
1. Reviews research protocols to determine availability of resources, subjects and equipment needs.
2. Educates patients and families about clinical trials, potential benefits and goals of clinical research. Communicates to physicians and other staff concerning protocols that are open to enrollment
3. Obtains written informed consent with appropriate HIPAA authorization from each patient prior to study enrollment.
4. Conducts study as outlined by protocol. Follows established guidelines in the collection of data. Ensures regulatory compliance for each study by following IRB policies and procedures, study requirements, federal regulations, etc.
5. Participates in sponsor audits and/or regulatory inspections of records and documents.
6. Recognizes, supports and utilizes evidence-based clinical practices.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Requires Bachelor's degree in a clinical/health-related field.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Two years clinical research experience in the areas of specific patient populations and/or clinical trial experience/knowledge or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. STATISTICAL REPORTING; ANALYZE TRENDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; DATA VERIFICATION; DATA CODING-GENERAL; DATA ANALYSIS/INTERPRETATION. Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Cancer Center Research Raleigh

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$26.85 - $38.61 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.