Clinical Trials Nurse- Full Time

Position Title: Clinical Nurse Practitioner, Full-Time

Contract Duration: 12-month base period with renewable option periods

Department: Veritas Management Group/NIH SOAR

Veritas Management Group (VMG) is a leading management consulting firm offering solutions to complex challenges involving public health, technology, and military domains. We serve government and commercial sector organizations, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, domestically and globally. We are committed to transforming public health through equitable, data-driven solutions.

VMG is seeking a Clinical Nurse Practitioner to support the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. This position provides comprehensive clinical and research support for outpatient brain imaging and neuromodulation studies, including MRI and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS).

The ideal candidate is an experienced Nurse Practitioner with a strong clinical background in radiology, cardiology, or critical care who is comfortable working with adult and pediatric research participants in a highly specialized clinical research environment. The position requires direct patient care, clinical assessment, participant screening, safety monitoring, and close collaboration with investigators, radiology personnel, and multidisciplinary research teams. The task order requires graduate-level nursing education and identifies ANCC certification and Family Nurse Practitioner licensure among the required credentials.

Provide comprehensive patient care in an outpatient MRI setting, including magnetic fields up to 7 Tesla and potentially higher-field systems in the future.

Recruit and screen healthy volunteers and patients for MRI, MRS, and other imaging procedures.

Conduct structured and semi-structured interviews with patients, parents, and families.

Provide clinical and psychological support to adult and pediatric patients, families, and healthy volunteers throughout participation in imaging studies.

Participate in research team meetings and contribute to decisions regarding participant inclusion, diagnoses, and patient and family support.

Conduct preliminary evaluations of prospective research participants through electronic interviewing, medical record review, MRI and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) safety screening, and consultation with treating professionals and NIH clinical staff.

Obtain social, medical, psychiatric, medication, alcohol, and substance-use histories from research participants.

Perform physical examinations, enter medical orders, and review laboratory and other test results for normal and abnormal findings in collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff.

Document research and clinical findings in applicable medical records and research databases.

Interpret clinical data and identify abnormal findings requiring immediate clinical action.

Obtain informed consent for MRI procedures and support the protection of human research participants.

Participate in data analysis and management, manuscript preparation, and presentation of research findings.

Provide training and clinical guidance to junior staff and advisors.

Graduate‑level education in Nursing .

Current Family Nurse Practitioner license .

Current American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification .

Clinical specialization or demonstrated experience in Radiology, Cardiology, or Critical Care .

Experience providing direct patient care and conducting clinical assessments.

Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to medical emergencies and significant abnormal clinical findings.

Ability to work effectively with adult and pediatric patients, families, investigators, physicians, nurses, and multidisciplinary research teams.

Experience supporting MRI, MRS, brain imaging, or neuromodulation research.

Experience conducting MRI and TMS safety screenings.

Experience working with adult and pediatric research participants.

Experience supporting clinical research protocols involving human subjects.

Experience obtaining informed consent in a clinical research environment.

Experience assessing medical, psychiatric, medication, and substance-use histories.

Experience working with principal investigators and multidisciplinary clinical research teams.

Experience with CRIS, CTDB, MRI-related systems, or comparable clinical research platforms .

Experience contributing to research data analysis, manuscript preparation, or scientific presentations.

Full‑time position, 30–40 hours per week , with 40 hours identified for the position.

Monday through Friday schedule.

Telework is available in accordance with task order requirements and government approval; direct patient care and research procedures require onsite participation as applicable.

No rotational shifts, nights, or holidays are required.

Clinical research environment involving direct patient care and regular interaction with adult and pediatric research participants, families, investigators, physicians, nurses, and research personnel.

Position involves human subjects and potential contact with human blood or other body fluids and requires use of applicable personal protective equipment.

Security clearance is not required.

The base period is November 30, 2026 through November 29, 2027 , with renewable option periods potentially extending performance through June 20, 2028.

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