Clinical Research Assistant – Health Educator
About The Position
Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research (PAVIR) supports the nation's second largest research program conducted among the VA Hospitals and is seeking a full-time Clinical Research Assistant - Health Educator. The Research Assistant - Health Educator will support several research studies aiming to improve Cancer Care for Veterans with Cancer. For all studies, the Health Educator will be in direct contact with site leaders, oncology providers, and patients during data collection and intervention implementation activities. With assistance from the PI, Dr. Manali Patel, the Health Educator will perform data collection, data entry, data management, simple data analysis, and creation of reports for funders as well as peer reviewed publications. This role is a full time (40 hrs/week), temporary role with an expected duration of 3 months.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- At least 1 year of relevant research experience (can be undergraduate experience)
- Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate effectively with study participants and the research staff
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office
- Organized, detail-oriented, self-directed, and dependable
- Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize workload
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Able to learn VA regulations and procedures regarding research
- General knowledge of research procedures gained through education or experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree
- Previous experience working in the VA system and/or experience with intervention trials in oncology, subject recruitment and screening
- Understanding of statistics and familiarity with STATA or similar data analysis software
- Knowledge of medical terminology preferred
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary contact with research participants, sponsors, and regulatory agencies.
- Assist with screening individuals for enrollment in the studies, determine eligibility, and gather consent from study participants according to protocol. Assist in developing recruitment strategies.
- Coordinate collection of study specimens and processing.
- Collect and manage patient data for clinical research projects.
- Assist with managing research project databases, develop flow sheets and other study related documents, and complete study documents/case report forms.
- Interact with the principal investigator regularly, ensuring patient safety and adherence to proper study conduct.
- Help ensure compliance with research protocols, and review and audit case report forms on REDCap for completion and accuracy with source documents.
- Help prepare regulatory submissions and ensure Institutional Review Board renewals and VA Research Review Committee renewals and applications are completed.
- Participate in monitor visits and regulatory audits.
- Ensure appropriate registration of trial information on clinicaltrials.gov and maintain renewals and updating information and uploading data upon study completion.
- Assemble study kits for study visits, monitor scheduling, coordinate documents, and attend monitoring meetings with sponsors and team members, acting as primary contact.
- Help monitor expenditures and adherence to study budgets and resolve billing issues in collaboration with finance and/or management staff.
- Help prepare manuscripts and reports, including preparing tables and formatting references and assisting with grant applications.
- Assist with other study-related duties as needed.
Benefits
- sick pay policies
- a 401(k) with a fully vested 6% company match and 3% profit share
- a wellness program
- commuter benefits
- professional development training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
