**Job Type:** Regular **Time Type:** Full time **Work Shift:** Rotating (United States of America) **FLSA Status:** Non-Exempt **When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.** Responsible for screening patients for participation in clinical trials, enrolling patients onto these studies, monitoring protocol implementation, completing required forms and reporting results. Works closely with other clinical research staff. May be required to work varied shifts. This position is in the Emergency Department. **Job Description:** **Primary Responsibilities:** 1. Independently or in conjunction with other clinical research staff and/or research nurse, recruits and enrolls patients onto clinical trials according to study protocols. May assess patients' eligibility for inclusion in a particular protocol based on contracts with physicians and nurses and knowledge of the protocol. (essential) 2. Checks all eligibility and ineligibility criteria with the patients' medical record. Verifies information with clinical research nurse and/or principal investigator. (essential) 3. Discusses informed consent with patients. Interacts with patients prior to entering the study and throughout the entire treatment. Assists with scheduling appointments and follow up tests. (essential) 4. Learns protocol and monitors strict adherence to protocols by physicians, nurses and patients. Reviews protocol requirements with physicians, nurses and fellows. Identifies any problems with protocol compliance and notifies principal investigator and/or research nurse. Begins to learn how to independently resolve problems with protocol. (essential) 5. Extracts data on protocol patients from hospital records, outpatient charts and private physician office records in order to complete case report forms required by specific protocols. Enters data into computerized system. (essential) 6. May assist clinic staff in obtaining insurance approval for patient protocol participation and scheduling tests and arranging admissions or outpatient visits for patients. (essential) 7. Assists investigator with correspondence with IRB. (essential) **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree required. + 0-1 years related work experience required. + Medical terminology. + Working knowledge of computer systems required, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications, which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access. **Competencies:** **Decision Making:** Ability to make decisions that are based on specific instructions, standard practices and established procedures which generally require little or no supervision. **Problem Solving:** Ability to address problems that are routine, somewhat repetitive and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures and by identifying opportunities for process improvements. **Independence of Action:** Ability to follow general instructions and procedures as provided. Work is monitored by supervisor/manager. **Written Communications:** Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers. **Oral Communications:** Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers. **Knowledge:** Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations. **Teamwork:** Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members. **Customer Service:** Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations. **Social/Environmental Requirements:** Work requires close attention to task for work to be accurately completed. Intermittent breaks during the workday do not compromise the work. Work routine is fairly consistent, but employee needs to be able to use judgment to respond to events when necessary. **Health Care Status:** HCW 2: Regular, day-to-day contact; face-to-face only. Examples: Front desk receptionist, info desk receptionist, resource specialists, interpreters, transporters, etc.- _Health Care Worker Status may vary by department._ **As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.** **More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.** **Equal Opportunity** **Employer/Veterans/Disabled**