Clinical Research Assistant II-Primary Care Center

*** This position requires a cover letter***
The Children's Hospital Primary Care Center is looking for two full-time Clinical Research Assistant II to assist with upcoming projects with subject matter including caring for medically and socially complex patients, child brain development, and improving clinical systems. Responsibilities include data collection, patient recruitment, clinical research project involvement, and quality improvement initiative support. These roles will feature patient contact, including a project involving rooming patients in order to reduce patient wait times for visits. The Research Assistant will work closely with various researchers and other practice staff with all aspects of study design and implementation, including managing Excel spreadsheets to collect and track data, recruiting patients and families to take part in research studies or clinic quality improvement initiatives, making outreach calls, chart review, and performing basic data analysis. Fluency in Spanish is preferred.

This Clinical Research Assistant II will be responsible for:

• Consents and recruits patients for research studies through personal interviews and written communications with patients/families.
• Provides detailed background information regarding studies to families, communicates all policies and procedures, and responds to all inquiries.
• Evaluates suitability of prospective study candidates and makes selections based upon clinical knowledge of each study.
• Serves as liaison to the families/patients in the research studies, conducted at both on site and off site locations, guiding and advising them throughout each phase of the study.
• Coordinates follow up visits as necessary. Acts as a resource to study participants, addressing any concerns they may have.
• Troubleshoots resolution of any issues that may arise throughout the study.
• Coordinates and prepares the necessary documentation for Institutional Review Board IRB and Committee on Clinical Investigations CCI submissions, together with the Private Investigator of the study.
• Creates and prepares data collection statistical reports and analytical summaries for distribution to study research team for review and analysis.
• Writes articles and summary papers of studies for submission to medical journals, as may be requested/necessary.
• Participates in the training of newly hired research study assistants, as required.
• Coordinates activities between the hospital and research laboratories to ensure correct testing/processing and send out instructions specific to the study.
• Communicates project policies and procedures to personnel. Monitors and reviews data collection and data entry, and informed consent procedures ensuring consistency of application for each study.
• Performs other miscellaneous administrative duties as assigned or required.

In order to qualify, you must have:

• A Bachelor's Degree in STEM or Psychology.
• 1 year of work expereince.
• Spanish fluency is preferred.
• 2 year time commitment is preferred.
• Analytical skills to gather and interpret data in which the information or problems are moderately complex to complex.
• Well-developed communication skills in order to provide critical information to patients, effectively deal with conflicting views or issues, and the ability to mediate fair solutions.
• Advanced writing skills.