JOB SUMMARY
You will join a dynamic and supportive research group running clinical and laboratory based descriptive and interventional trials. You will be based at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City. The main focus of your work will be on COVID-19 clinical trial.
Study activities involve several sites including the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD), Cu Chi field hospital, Can Gio COVID-19 hospital. The job is located at HTD but expected to include travel to other sites for work.
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KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES
– Work under the direction of OUCRU investigators to ensure the successful progress of the RECOVERY trial
– Understand and be familiar with the study protocol
– Work with hospital physicians to facilitate the recruitment of study patients.
– Work with hospital health staff to ensure quality of the study implementation
– Communicate with study participants about their illness and its management. Answer questions about the trial, and provide advice about seeking healthcare at study sites or non-study sites.
– Collect, oversee and review the collection of clinical data and research samples from participants both as inpatients and outpatients at study sites (HTD, Cu Chi field hospital, Can Gio COVID-19 hospital)
– Oversee electronic clinical case report forms completion: ie, double check that eCRF is accurately and promptly completed by hospital staff.
– Support hospital staff in the identification, recording, reporting to sponsor and relevant EC and follow-up adverse events as per protocol and related study standard operating procedures. Once participants have completed the trial, study nurse will be in charge on follow-up ongoing AE/SAE as per Study SOP requirements.
– Contact subjects to schedule follow-up visits according to protocol.
– Reimburse all research related expenses to trial participants according to OUCRU procedures.
– When participants are transferred, study nurse must contact with patient and the arrival hospital that patients are transferred to keep track of the information, continue study procedure in appropriate study sites and complete the CRF.
– Maintain good communication with research team and collaborating hospital staff at each site, to ensure participants’ wellbeing, compliance with study protocols and quality of clinical data.
– Help to develop good relationships with study sites (HTD, Cu Chi field hospital, Can Gio COVID-19 hospital)
– Cooperate with the study monitoring team during and after their visits to answer their questions regarding data collection, and any queries related to clinical data collected.
– Work with study coordinators and data entry clerk to resolve queries arising from database audit and data entry.
– When the hospital pharmacy runs out of stock of a drug, contact study coordinator and discuss with PI/designee to buy drug
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DEPARTMENT
CNS (Central Nervous System) Group
LOCATION
This post is based in Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
HOURS OF WORK
37.5 hours per week, extra hours may be required
TENURE
One year full-time contract, including 2 month probation, with a possibility of extension
REPORTING TO
Head of CNS Group and Principal Investigator