UNIV - Program Assistant - Ortho Adult Reconstruction - Department of Orthopaedics
About The Position
The Department of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is seeking a candidate to assist the adult reconstruction research team (physician investigators and research coordinators) in the recruitment of research participants, the collection of research data, data entry, and organizational tasks for studies conducted in the Department of Orthopaedics and PM&R. The research assistant will be directly involved in the collection of questionnaire, interview, laboratory and other research data. This position requires exercising best practices in patient management, providing timely and accurately reports from research databases to PIs and research staff, and provides support for the research investigators, faculty, trainee physicians and program coordinator/manager.
Requirements
- A high school diploma and two years relevant program experience.
- Ability to perform job functions in an upright position (Frequent).
- Ability to perform job functions in a seated position (Frequent).
- Ability to perform job functions while walking/mobile (Frequent).
- Ability to work indoors (Continuous).
- Ability to fully use both hands/arms (Continuous).
- Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders (Frequent).
- Ability to reach in all directions (Frequent).
- Possess good finger dexterity (Continuous).
- Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions (Continuous).
- Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes (Continuous).
- Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand (Frequent).
- Ability to see and recognize objects at a distance (Frequent).
- Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception (Frequent).
- Good peripheral vision capabilities (Continuous).
- Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction (Continuous).
- Ability to hear and/or understand whispered conversations at a distance of 3 feet (Frequent).
- Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements (Frequent).
Nice To Haves
- Strong organizational skills
- Excel and other Microsoft programs
- Data entry experience
- Patient care experience
- A bachelor's degree may be substituted for the required program experience.
Responsibilities
- Administer questionnaires and consents to patients in ambulatory clinics.
- Collect study data per protocol during patient appointments.
- Provide information to study participants and answer study-related questions.
- Contact study participants by phone or letter to schedule follow-up visits post-surgery for shoulder, knee, and hip long-term follow-up studies.
- Conduct outcome study survey data collection by calling participants and asking outcome questions.
- Utilize Excel to maintain enrollment logs and follow-up logs.
- Collect, compile, and input study data for study participants into specified databases.
- Manage study data and prepare reports as deemed necessary by study PIs and Research Coordinator.
- Travel with Research Coordinator to clinic sites to assist with participant recruitment and data collection.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Pay Rate Type Hourly
- Pay Grade University-GEN06
- Pay Range 37,200.00 - 48,300.00 - 59,500.000
- Scheduled Weekly Hours 40
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
