Clinical Research Specialist

UNC Health; North Carolina; On-site; USD 37,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

UNC Health in Raleigh is seeking a Clinical Research Coordinator to support cancer center studies, educate patients and families about trials, and ensure compliance with protocols and guidelines. The role involves coordinating resources, communicating with physicians and staff, and handling consent processes and data collection.

You'll work onsite, typical 40-hour work week, with emphasis on protecting patient rights, maintaining regulatory standards, and supporting sponsor audits and IRB

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a clinical/health-related field.
• Two years clinical research experience.
• Ability to interpret data and communicate clearly about protocols.

Responsibilities

• Reviews research protocols to assess resources, subjects and equipment needs.
• Educates patients and families about trials and communicates enrollment options to staff.
• Obtains informed consent with HIPAA authorization prior to enrollment.
• Conducts studies per protocol and ensures regulatory compliance with IRB requirements.
• Participates in sponsor audits and regulatory inspections.
• Supports evidence-based clinical practices.

Skills

Clinical research

Patient education

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a clinical/health-related field

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

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

Responsibilities

• Reviews research protocols to determine availability of resources, subjects and equipment needs.
• 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
• Obtains written informed consent with appropriate HIPAA authorization from each patient prior to study enrollment.
• 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.
• Participates in sponsor audits and/or regulatory inspections of records and documents.
• Recognizes, supports and utilizes evidence-based clinical practices.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements

• Requires Bachelor's degree in a clinical/health-related field.

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.

Job Details

• 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: Onsite
• 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 [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.