Clinical Trial Assistant

at  Griffith University

EVERY INSTITUTION VALUES EXCELLENCE. WHAT MATTERS MOST IS WHY.

Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excellence, and the transformative power of education. But what sets us apart is why those things matter and how you’ll achieve them.
Why? Griffith brings together exceptional minds like yours from across the globe and from all walks of life. Here, we do incredible work, questioning and challenging, always in the pursuit of excellence.
Griffith’s Clinical Trial Unit is a Core research Facility to the University that provides state of the art facilities for clinical trials. We support university researchers and academics in conducting their trials, but also provide professional clinical trial services to commercial clients such as the pharma and biosciences industry.
Job Description
As the Clinical Trial Assistant, you will be responsible for providing clinical trial specific administrative, screening, recruitment and operational assistance and support to the Clinical Trial Coordinators. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to support lab tests and develop some clinics visit skills under the guidance of the clinical trial coordinators.

As the Clinical Trial Assistant, you will:

• Provide administrative support as needed for clinical research studies in accordance with international and national guidelines (e.g. TGA, ICH-GCP and NHMRC) as per study protocols and delegated by the Operations Manager.
• Assist with study participant recruitment by supporting the design of recruitment material in line with sponsor and ethics approval and conducting pre-screening activities (e.g. phone calls, emails)
• Draft, format and prepare ethics submissions and amendments, as well as other forms of communication and perform ad hoc project activities
• Design and maintain databases and online systems, of trial specific databases (e.g. trackers, enter data to electronic data capture - EDC) and high-quality study records.
• Assist study coordinators in in managing the flow of information; establishing and maintaining administrative systems, including spreadsheets online booking systems and support onsite clinical study visits and assessments, telehealth and phone appointments, and phone/SMS follow ups.
• Perform routine research and project work including data collection and entry, completion of study trackers and the preparation of trial closure at site and relevant archiving.
• Assist with scientific/lab tests, study specific clinical consumables and equipment orders/rentals and adequate storage.

Please refer the Job description for details