Clinical Trials Assistant

£28,614 to £32,307
every year, inclusive.
Closing Date:  Sunday 15 October 2023
Reference:  EPH-MS-2023-09

LSHTM, a world-leading centre for analysis and postgraduate training in public and world well being. Our mission is to enhance well being and well being fairness within the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to attain excellence in public and world well being analysis, training and translation of data into coverage and observe.

We’re primarily based inside the Division of Medical Statistics and are a part of Scientific Trials on the largest faculty of public well being in Europe. We work with a community of collaborators from over 50 international locations supporting trial coordinating centres in Pakistan, Nigeria and Tanzania. Our particular curiosity is within the conduct of enormous worldwide multi-centre trials, and have a global status for observe altering medical trials, particularly within the space of trauma and emergency care, like: MRC CRASH trial (10,000 sufferers with traumatic mind harm), the CRASH-2 trial (20,000 sufferers with traumatic bleeding) and the WOMAN trial (20,000 girls with postpartum bleeding), CRASH-3 trial (12,737 sufferers with traumatic mind harm), HALT-IT trial (12,000 sufferers with gastrointestinal bleeding). Our portfolio of labor consists of Part 1, 2 and three trials, on enhancing the effectivity of trials to enhance high quality, cut back value and cut back our carbon footprint, together with trial design, recruitment, retention for trials, monitoring environment friendly methods of conducting medical trials.

We’re looking for to nominate an enthusiastic and progressive Scientific Trials Assistant. The post-holder will help the Trial Supervisor and play a key function within the day-to-day Trial Administration facets of medical trials being carried out by the Scientific Trials Workforce. The function will help a number of the administrative facets of the trial and can guarantee an expert and courteous service to trial collaborators and supply in a dependable and compliant method, in accordance with medical trials rules and moral necessities.

The profitable candidate may have an undergraduate diploma in a related topic or the equal related expertise, confirmed related expertise of working in analysis, wonderful organisational expertise, wonderful written, oral communication and numeric expertise, capacity to prioritise to satisfy deadlines. Additional particulars are included within the job description.

The publish is full-time and fixed-term for 12 months with potential extension relying on availability of funding. The publish is collectively funded by B&MGF/WT and is obtainable instantly.

The wage might be on the Skilled Providers wage scale Grade 3 within the vary £28,614 – £32,307 every year (inclusive of London Weighting). The publish might be topic to LSHTM phrases and situations of service. Annual go away entitlement is 30 working days per 12 months in addition to discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is obtainable. The publish is predicated in London.

Functions ought to be made on-line by way of our jobs web site . Functions also needs to embrace the names and electronic mail contacts of two referees who will be contacted instantly if appointed. On-line purposes might be accepted by the automated system till 10pm of the cut-off date. We remorse that late purposes can’t be accepted. Any queries relating to the appliance course of could also be addressed to [email protected] .

The supporting assertion part ought to set out how your {qualifications}, expertise and coaching meet every of the choice standards. Please present a number of paragraphs addressing every criterion. The supporting assertion is an important a part of the choice course of and thus a failure to offer this info will imply that the appliance won’t be thought-about. A solution to any of the factors reminiscent of “Please see connected CV”, “Sure” or “No” won’t be thought-about acceptable and won’t be scored.

Please observe that in case you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it is probably not attainable to give you an alternate date.

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