Study Co-ordinator

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £33,002 to £35,608 with potential progression once in post to £39,906

The role will work in the Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM), a world class clinical research facility and a component of the Birmingham Health Partners. The post holder will support a variety of research projects within the ITM Research First Team.

As a member of one or more study working groups, coordinate one or more designated studies according to predefined standards, policies, procedures, frameworks and legislation, ensuring appropriate records are kept. The post holder may work across a range of projects at any one time.

Main Duties include:

• Set up clinical sites, prepare ethics committee and regulatory submissions, ensuring that staff at participating sites understand and are able to comply with the trial protocol.
• Support each site with recruitment and monitor the progress of each site, including study protocol compliance.
• Conduct quality assurance and audit visits to sites.
• Address any practical issues reported by sites.
• Contribute to the design, analysis, publication and presentation of the research. This may involve contributing to the following: preparing research grant applications; designing, developing and feasibility test of protocols; case report forms; coding lists and databases; preparing abstracts; designing posters; journal articles.
• Provide regular feedback and reports on the progress of the study, including newsletters, meetings, maintaining a trial website.
• Ensure study data is collected, processed and stored accurately and to agreed deadlines.
• Train and supervise other internal and external collaborators involved in data management in the rules and procedures to use.
• Create and document guidance notes, procedures and forms for the conduct of the study, and ensure internal and external collaborators are trained to understand and follow them.
• Create study management tools including databases.
• Enter study data onto the study database(s), and monitor it to identify missing, contradictory or incorrect data and then take actions to resolve these issues within a reasonable timescale.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Higher degree in a relevant biomedical or associated subject, or degree (or equivalent) with practical experience in clinical research relevant to research or teaching area.
• In depth understanding of clinical research and trial management methodology and proven ability to apply these to the development, testing and implementation of study management procedures.
• Experience and understanding of techniques for the management of medical research information. For example, data coding, entry validation and reporting, automating procedures.
• Experience in the design, maintenance and interrogation of complex relational databases.
• Experience of using statistics packages (e.g. SPSS, SAD) to perform statistical tests to analyse and manage trial data.

Informal enquiries can be made to Saffron King email: s.king.8@bham.ac.uk

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