Clinical Research Assistant

Job Description

1. Assist in the development and implementation of recruitment strategies to increase patient randomisation into the trial (eg investigator and research nurse meetings, update newsletters, advertising, and letters to GPs).
2. Work with the CRA to update the Patient Tracking Database – which includes details of patient recruitment into clinical trials, each individual’s progress through the trial, payments due to investigators, total paid to site, adverse events and other relevant patient related information.
3. Maintain a database that records details of clinical trial shipments, and in collaboration with the CRA ensure that there are adequate supplies of clinical trial material to meet project needs. Plan, order and distribute non-drug clinical trial supplies eg clinical report forms, diary cards.
4. Responsible for logging in received CRFs and transferring data from the CRFs into the database.
5. Assist the CRA during the preparation for the investigator study initiation meeting.