24 Oct
The University of Calgary
Calgary
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Job type
- Full-time
Location
3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary, AB
Full job description
Description
The Department of Psychiatry in the Cumming School of Medicine invites applications for a Clinical Research Coordinator. This Full-time Fixed Term position is for approximately 12 months (based on length of grant funding), with the possibility of extension.
Reporting to the Principal Investigator.
This position will require occasional national and international travel. The project involves a randomized controlled trial using non-invasive neurostimulation in a clinical population.
Summary of Key Responsibilities (job functions include but are not limited to):
- Provide clients with information and advice about programs/services
- Ensure that services meet the continuously changing needs of the department and the University
- Make recommendations to policy or procedural changes as needed
- Maintain established programs and procedures
- Recruit eligible subjects for research projects by checking charts and other sources
- Coordinate and schedule research visits according to study procedures
- Abstract data from existing databases
- Collaborate with the study investigators to perform and complete relevant parts of the study, such as obtaining signatures, discussing questions that come up, reviewing abnormal results of tests, etc.
- Perform physician delegated functions, such as interviewing and educating patients, completing questionnaires, performing simple physical exam tasks such as measuring weight, height and blood pressure, etc
- Screen interested participants and collect consent forms from interested participants
- Perform delegated non-invasive study procedures such as transcranial magnetic stimulation or transcranial direct current stimulation etc.
- Undergo training for new, or new to the Clinical Research Coordinator, methodologies used in the projects
- Develop informed consent forms, source documents worksheets and case report forms
- Contribute to protocol development by bringing forth feasible ideas for patient recruitment, study design and methodology and patient retention in studies
- Liaise with all research team members and sponsor/other collaborators
- Prepare and submit study documents to the ethic boards
- Maintain research study binders with regulatory documents and patient data
- Keep electronic records of all study material including protocols, informed consent forms,
questionnaires, renewals, modifications, etc.
- Obtain consent from subjects wishing to participate in health research projects according to standard approved protocol
- Educate patients and their families on research procedures
- Collect and maintain data logs
- Perform data entry for studies and update databases
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Bachelor Degree, Neuroscience or Health Science
- Previous experience as a research coordinator (Minimum 1 year experience)
- Background in clinical trials preferred
- 2-5 years of experience in a research environment
- Clinical Trial Coordinator training, including many of the following courses, is strongly preferred: Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit: Leadership in Patient Oriented Research:
Pragmatic Clinical Trials Certificate Program; Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program); National Institutes of Health (NIH): Protecting Human Research Participants; Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans; Northern Alberta Clinical Trials + Research Centre (NACTRC) - Study Coordinator Training Program
- Knowledge of University policies including submission of projects to ethics boards
- Ability to work simultaneously on multiple projects
- Fluent in English; excellent communication skills
- Computer literacy MS Windows, Word, Excel, MS Outlook and MS Access
- Strong leadership skills
Application Deadline: November 6, 2024
We would like to thank all applicants in advance for submitting their resumes.
Please note, only those candidates chosen to continue on through the selection process will be contacted.
This position is part of the AUPE bargaining unit, and falls under the Specialist/Advisor Job Family, Phase 2.
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