Mobile Research Coordinator Opportunities Within

**Req ID: 160417**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Central Zone, Centre for Clinical Research - QEII**
**Department: Research, Innovation & Discovery**
**Type of Employment: Permanent Full-Time**
**Status**:Management/Non Union Position**
**Posting Closing Date: Open Until Filled**
- **This is a reposted position. Current applicants are not required to re-apply**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health’s Research, Innovation and Discovery portfolio is transforming health care delivery and improving the health of all Nova Scotians by leading initiatives that deliver high-impact health care solutions and developing strategic partnerships with clinical champions, industry, healthcare foundations, governments and academic partners. By pairing leading researchers, innovators, and clinicians with entrepreneurs through our newly formed Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub, their creative solutions are improving health and health care while also contributing directly to Nova Scotia’s economy_._

**About The Position**:

- The RI&D Operations team is recruiting for the following positions:_
- _
Research Coordinator (non-licensed)_
- _ Licensed Research Coordinator, LPN_
- _ Licensed Research Coordinator, Registered Nurse (RN)_

The Mobile Research Coordinators works across clinical divisions and studies at given clinical sites across central zone, as needed, to facilitate the clinical trials conducted by Nova Scotia Health. This role is expected to be active throughout the clinical life cycle, from study start-up through trial maintenance to study closure with responsibilities that vary according to needs of individual study teams. Responsibilities may include recruiting/screening study participants, managing biological specimens, procurement, equipment management, monitoring visit coordination, clinical documentation management and storage, mentorship, arranging diagnostic/clinical tests, and other activities needed to support short-handed study teams. As a Research Coordinator, your day-to-day responsibilities will differ according to the specific classification you hold and the group you are assigned to work with.

The** **Mobile Research Coordinator** **provides services to participants from a wide range of cultures, making it imperative for them to have the ability to provide culturally competent care. They continuously make every effort to deliver research procedures effectively within the participant's cultural context. They recognize that cultural differences exist and therefore explore these issues with participants to create a safe space so that participants feel comfortable to express their cultural beliefs and needs.

**About You**:
**We would love to hear from you if you have the following**:

- Experience working in clinical research is considered a requirement
- Willingness to travel between different research locations within central zone
- Ability to work independently in a hybrid set-up and be an individual contributor.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and multi-tasking skills are critical.
- High level of impulse control and emotional intelligence.
- High level of attention to detail, efficient in daily tasks
- High level of competence in both written and verbal communication.
- Ability to anticipate needs, respond accordingly, provides guidance and support.
- Sound knowledge of clinical study portals for data entry
- Strong leadership skills

**Responsibilities**:
Primary responsibilities of these roles include, but are not limited to:

- Ongoing training for all active research protocols and amendments
- Execution of all aspects of study visits (recruiting/screening study participants, obtaining informed consent, assessment of adverse events, medication administration, sample collection, study team assessments, data collection and entry);
- Safety monitoring and reporting of serious adverse events, protocol deviations and protocol violations according to NSHA policy and Health Canada guidelines,
- Equipment management and oversight
- Monitoring visit coordination, and consistent communication with industry liaison
- Implementation and coordination of all aspects of data collection and source documentation, as per NSHA policy and ICH/GCP guidelines,
- Coordination of services within NSHA (eg. laborato