MEDICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT (Indicate last salary)
Job description
- Create research plan and budget, outlining places, areas, time, and expenses involved in carrying out particular research
- Identify relevant potential participants, educate them on research procedures and possible dangers to get them psychologically ready for the project,
- Design tools and models for clinical trials, observing professional standards, and following step by step procedures without cutting corners, to obtain valid results
- Interact with research team members, brainstorming on ideas on research procedures to ensure successful findings
- Maintain research sites in line with regulatory binders, monitoring associate shadow binders
- Ensure that research tools and materials are available even before the commencement of the research, to ensure smooth flow of operations
- Guarantee the safety of team members and participants during procedures by taking effective safety measures and putting machinery in place to handle crises and emergencies that may arise
- Supervise research activities and provide support to team members
- Inform relevant authorities of need to carry out procedures in certain areas to avoid issues of trespassing; and obtain legal authorization for the procedure as backing in case of suits arising from research causalities
- Evaluate research’s observation methods for efficiency and make recommendations for improvement to ensure reliability and generalization of results
- Prepare documents for participants’ consent and authorization and ensure they are
- Execute diagnostic aspects of medical treatment to ascertain the cause and effect of patients’ health condition as such findings are instrumental to effective treatment
- Keep records of clinical researches in files and computer systems; take note of successful procedures; observe any side effect; and treat research programs with confidentiality
- Comply with procedures for infection control in the clinic to avoid destroying research materials unknowingly
- Enforce preventive maintenance techniques to preserve specimens and tools
REQUIREMENTS
- A degree in a health-related field and/or medical technician certification is necessary for qualification
- High thinking capacity to brainstorm and identify most effective solutions to clinical issues
- Good organizational skills to maintain orderliness in compiling research data for testing and presentation
- Must be goal oriented to work tirelessly towards achieving research goals in the midst of challenges
- Time management skills to produce research results within a given time frame, to enhance productivity
- Living or willing to relocate to Thika
Interested candidate should send their CVs to jobs@peoplelink.co.ke with the email subject as Medical Research Assistant.
Only shortlisted shall be contacted.
