Research Support Assistant - PER_DIEM - Heart Institute - Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA
About the Job
Job Description
Come join our team!
Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars-Sinai received the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 times for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We were also awarded the Advisory Board Company’s Workplace of the Year, 3 years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have very high levels of employee engagement. We hire team members who are committed and who are dedicated to our community. We provide an outstanding benefit package and competitive compensation. Discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospital.
The Research Support Assistant provides clerical support to Clinical Research Associate, Clinical Research Coordinator, Research Program Administrator, Research Nurse, or Research Manager. This role will provide the administrative support for research protocols by providing document management, obtaining proper signatures, and maintaining samples, kits, and study supplies. This role will comply with all federal, local, FDA, IRB, and HIPAA guidelines and regulations pertaining to the study and patient care.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
+ Completes data entry and manages documents for research activities and provides clerical support to the department.
+ Handles the process of obtaining the proper signatures for research grants and protocols.
+ Provides administrative support for research protocols.
+ Completes sample preparation and shipping and maintains study supplies and kits.
+ Responsible for obtaining outside research records for patients enrolled in protocols.
+ Schedules research meetings.
+ Ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA and local Institutional Review Board.
+ Maintains research practices using Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
+ Maintains strict patient confidentiality according to HIPAA regulations and applicable law.
+ Participates in required training and education programs.
Department-Specific Responsibilities
+ Under the supervision of the department chair, medical/nursing directors, and research leadership, integrates and is actively involved in specified processes to gain direct understanding of quality improvement opportunities. Functions may include supervised contact with patients and research participants to collect quality improvement data and facilitate department research activities.
+ Prepares and submits protocols and supporting documents to regulatory bodies such as the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
+ Collects, audits, tracks, and analyzes health care data and maintains clinical databases for quality improvement purposes.
+ Works with interdisciplinary team members to develop and standardize reports, questionnaires, and participates in comparative studies, data analysis, and interpretation.
+ Collects, processes, and prepares specimens and transports to lab. Follows hospital policy for specimen labeling, logging, and storage.
+ Provides supervised contact with patients for quality improvement purposes or with research participants for IRB-regulated clinical research protocols, such as interviewing patients, collecting data, taking vital signs, performing EKG's, and other non-invasive clinical or research activities.
+ May draft reports, manuscripts, and other deliverables for internal or external presentation or publication. Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
+ High School graduate or equivalent required.
Experience Requirements:
+ No experience required.
+ Previous coursework and experience in related field preferred.
Licenses & Certification Requirements:
+ No license & certification required.
Req ID : 5790
Working Title : Research Support Assistant - PER_DIEM - Heart Institute
Department : Heart Institute
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Administrative
Job Specialty : Administrative
Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $19.50 - $32.86
Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.
Come join our team!
Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars-Sinai received the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 times for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We were also awarded the Advisory Board Company’s Workplace of the Year, 3 years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have very high levels of employee engagement. We hire team members who are committed and who are dedicated to our community. We provide an outstanding benefit package and competitive compensation. Discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospital.
The Research Support Assistant provides clerical support to Clinical Research Associate, Clinical Research Coordinator, Research Program Administrator, Research Nurse, or Research Manager. This role will provide the administrative support for research protocols by providing document management, obtaining proper signatures, and maintaining samples, kits, and study supplies. This role will comply with all federal, local, FDA, IRB, and HIPAA guidelines and regulations pertaining to the study and patient care.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
+ Completes data entry and manages documents for research activities and provides clerical support to the department.
+ Handles the process of obtaining the proper signatures for research grants and protocols.
+ Provides administrative support for research protocols.
+ Completes sample preparation and shipping and maintains study supplies and kits.
+ Responsible for obtaining outside research records for patients enrolled in protocols.
+ Schedules research meetings.
+ Ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA and local Institutional Review Board.
+ Maintains research practices using Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
+ Maintains strict patient confidentiality according to HIPAA regulations and applicable law.
+ Participates in required training and education programs.
Department-Specific Responsibilities
+ Under the supervision of the department chair, medical/nursing directors, and research leadership, integrates and is actively involved in specified processes to gain direct understanding of quality improvement opportunities. Functions may include supervised contact with patients and research participants to collect quality improvement data and facilitate department research activities.
+ Prepares and submits protocols and supporting documents to regulatory bodies such as the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
+ Collects, audits, tracks, and analyzes health care data and maintains clinical databases for quality improvement purposes.
+ Works with interdisciplinary team members to develop and standardize reports, questionnaires, and participates in comparative studies, data analysis, and interpretation.
+ Collects, processes, and prepares specimens and transports to lab. Follows hospital policy for specimen labeling, logging, and storage.
+ Provides supervised contact with patients for quality improvement purposes or with research participants for IRB-regulated clinical research protocols, such as interviewing patients, collecting data, taking vital signs, performing EKG's, and other non-invasive clinical or research activities.
+ May draft reports, manuscripts, and other deliverables for internal or external presentation or publication. Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
+ High School graduate or equivalent required.
Experience Requirements:
+ No experience required.
+ Previous coursework and experience in related field preferred.
Licenses & Certification Requirements:
+ No license & certification required.
Req ID : 5790
Working Title : Research Support Assistant - PER_DIEM - Heart Institute
Department : Heart Institute
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Administrative
Job Specialty : Administrative
Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $19.50 - $32.86
Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.
Source : Cedars-Sinai
