Clinical Research Assistant

Why Join Us? 

For us, what matters most is excellence. We are caring professionals, people who live, work and dedicate themselves to the communities within New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As such, we strive to provide a sanctuary of excellence, precision, thoroughness and genuine compassion. We also take a whole-person approach to patient care and treatment, tailoring all that we do around their unique needs. And we do all we can for patients, going the extra mile to see that they’re supported, informed and getting the one-on-one care and service they deserve.

Job Description:

As an Oncology Clinical Research Assistant (CRA), you will be assisting team members at Astera Cancer Care on recruiting participants, collecting and managing the study data for the successful management of clinical trials. This is a full-time position.

Responsibilities Include:

• Assisting Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) to ensure that clinical research activities are performed in accordance with local and federal regulations and adhere to policies and procedures of Astera and the sponsors and CROs
• Assisting CRC on the coordination of tests and visits for patients and maximizing work efficiency and productivity.
• Assisting Regulatory Specialist (RS) on IRB submissions and interact to maintain regulatory documents and administrative files for each protocol.
• Assisting CRC on confirming patient’s eligibility into clinical trials.
• Assisting Clinical Data Coordinator (CDC) and RS on maintaining patient and regulatory research records.
• Confer with all members of the clinical team to confirm appropriateness and timeliness of tests.
• Collect follow-up data on patient’s post-treatment as required by the protocol.
• Assisting CDC on entering research data into a centralized database as per protocol requirements.
• Prepare other study materials as requested by the Principal Investigator such as informed consent documents, case report forms, enrollment logs and drug/device accountability logs.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft applications.
• Able to travel between offices within the offices in Northeast Jersey area.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills.