CLINICAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR

Memorial Health • Decatur, IL

4d • $24 - $37 • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves coordinating screening and enrollment of clinical trial patients, reviewing physician schedules to assess potential participants, and educating patients and families during the informed consent process. The coordinator will register patients to protocols, ensure eligibility requirements are met, and order necessary patient testing. Responsibilities also include maintaining records of recruitment strategies, marketing protocols to meet goals, and coordinating clinical trial activities across clinic and hospital settings. The role requires gathering and verifying source documents, ensuring accurate and timely submission of case report forms, and collaborating with investigators to ensure protocol compliance. The coordinator will interview patients to assess adverse events, medication compliance, and patient-reported outcomes, and obtain follow-up data after active treatment. Data correction and query resolution within specified timeframes are also key duties, along with maintaining investigational drug (IND) inventory, ordering INDs, and maintaining drug accountability records. Ensuring treatment orders are correct by reviewing protocol guidelines and calculating prescribed doses is also part of the role.

Requirements

• Must possess good communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
• Must be able to organize work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to focus attention to minute details.
• Access, Work and Excel computer skills required.
• Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Accepts criticism and feedback; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; ability to work with frustrating situations; work under pressure and on an irregular schedule such as unscheduled overtime, unanticipated changes in work pace; Works with numerous distractions.
• Attendance and Punctuality – Schedules time off in advance; Begins working on time; Keeps absences within guidelines; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; Arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
• Communications – Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; Expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; Exhibits good listening and comprehension; Keeps others adequately informed; Selects and uses appropriate communication methods.
• Cooperation – Establishes and maintains effective relations; Exhibits tact and consideration; Displays positive outlook and pleasant manner; Offers assistance and support to co-workers; Works cooperatively in group situations; Works actively to resolve conflicts.
• Job Knowledge – Competent in required job skills and knowledge; Exhibits ability to learn and apply new skills; Keeps abreast of current developments; Requires minimal supervision; Displays understanding of how job relates to others; Uses resources effectively.
• Judgment – displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and accurate judgment; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Includes appropriate people in decision-making process; Makes timely decisions; ability to work with and maintain confidential information.
• Problem solving – Identifies problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Resolves problems in early stages; Works well in group problem solving situations.
• Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Displays commitment to excellence; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Quantity – Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner; Strives to increase productivity; Works quickly; Achieves established goals.
• Concentration – Maintains attention to detail over extended period of time; continually aware of variations in changing situations.
• Supervision – ability to perform work independently or with minimal supervision; ability to assign and/or review work; train and/or evaluate other employees.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelors degree in nursing or other health-related field is preferred.
• Previous research experience and/or recent nursing experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates screening and enrollment of clinical trial patients.
• Reviews physician patient schedules and assesses patients for possible clinical trial enrollment.
• Educates patients and families during the informed consent process.
• Registers patients and participants to protocols.
• Ensures eligibility requirements are met and reviews with physician investigator.
• Ensures protocol required patient testing is ordered and complete.
• Maintains record of recruitment strategies.
• Markets protocols as needed to meet recruitment goals.
• Coordinates clinical trial activities research done at the clinic and hospital.
• Gathers and verifies source documents.
• Verifies the accuracy, completeness and timely submission of case report forms.
• Collaborates with investigator to ensure protocol compliance in patient selection, treatment, dose modifications and response.
• Interviews patient to assess adverse events, medication compliance, and patient reported outcomes.
• Obtains follow-up data required when patient is off active treatment.
• Corrects and resubmits data or answers queries within one week of receipt or as requested by pharmaceutical company; reviews expectation reports; notifies research base of errors.
• Maintains investigational drug (IND) inventory.
• Reviews protocols and assesses current inventory of IND.
• Orders INDs from Pharmaceutical Management Branch at National Cancer Institute.
• Maintains inventory on individual drug accountability records.
• Ensures treatment order is correct by reviewing protocol guidelines and calculating dose prescribed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level