Job Description

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

About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi ... tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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