Research Assistant

1 month ago

Vancouver, Canada UBC Full time

Staff - Non Union
Job Category
Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants
Job Profile
Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3
Job Title
Research Assistant
Department
Clinical Research Unit | Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute | Faculty of Medicine
Compensation Range
$4,567.04 - $5,385.67 CAD Monthly
Posting End Date
December 5, 2024
**Note**: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Job End Date
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
Job Description Summary
The Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) Clinical Research Unit (CRU) assists VCH/UBC investigators to conduct human clinical trials of biomedical or health-related research that follows a pre-defined protocol. Trials can be industry funded, grant funded, or investigator initiated. The VCHRI CRU is operated by the VCHRI which is affiliated with the University of British Columbia. The Research Assistant can be assigned at multiple locations including but not limited to the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, UBC Hospital, and individual departments and divisions within VGH.
The VCHRI CRU is committed to the pursuit of excellence in clinical trial services and to promoting research at VCH by providing these services to investigators from all disciplines. The VCHRI CRU is also dedicated to developing a reputation as a site where quality industry sponsored, grant funded, and investigator-initiated trials can be undertaken. All research in the VCHRI CRU is conducted with the highest standards of good clinical practice (GCP).
Organizational Status
This position reports directly to the Director, VCHRI CRU who will oversee and guide the research assistant in all research activities. The research assistant will interact with other members of the VCHRI CRU/research teams as well as other hospital groups & health care professionals including clinicians/researchers, coordinators, students, sponsors, auditors, volunteers, and study participants. The Research Assistant will work independently on a day-to-day basis while also collaborating as part of a team. They will work closely with and also take direction from the Research Facilitator.
Work Performed
- Provides clerical assistance, including answering phones, booking appointments, scheduling meeting, scheduling tests, and participant reimbursements.
- Assists with logistics and procedures for study participant visits, including but not limited to conducting informed consent, collecting vital signs, participants study follow-up calls; administering of study questionnaires and review medical charts for past medical history and current medications.
- Responsible for data collection, data entry, documentation of process, ongoing monitoring of data quality, and ensuring that data is accurately and timely entered into databases, completion of data queries.
- Assists with recruitment activities, development of recruitment materials, phone screening, pre-screening assessments, study communications with potential participants.
- Maintains research stock supplies, monitors/updates inventory. Logs and monitors the usage of services and supplies, ensuring accurate records are maintained for all clinical trial activities. This includes tracking inventory levels (such as lab kits), documenting requisitions, and coordinating with vendors to ensure availability of essential materials.
- Perform quality assurance monitoring of equipment and space.
- Performs clinical and laboratory clean up tasks. Assists in basic maintenance of research equipment, addressing equipment failures and maintaining/documenting yearly calibrations.
- Prepares sample collection kits for study visits, performs blood collection, centrifuges blood samples, aliquots plasma/ serum/urine and other simple laboratory processing tasks.
- Prepare documents, samples and other materials for proper handling and shipping, which includes scheduling couriers, ordering dry ice, and packaging samples.
- Operates a variety of equipment such as but not limited to centrifuges, incubators, and monitors fridges and freezers to ensure temperatures meet min/max requirements to comply with regulatory and/or study requirements.
- Assists with ethics submissions using UBC RISe (Research Information Systems). This may include assisting with the development or gathering of documents and relevant information required for the ethics submissions.
- Actively participates in team meetings, provide regular updates on research activities; establishes effective communication with all team members; ensures timely notification to the VCHRI CRU Director (and VCHRI CRU Research Facilitator a

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