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As part of our Experimental Therapeutics Group, you will be responsible for the coordination of clinical activities for an assigned portfolio of early phase clinical trials undertaken at the UF Health Cancer Center.

In your new role you will be responsible for the following:

• Subject care and navigation for enrolled subjects including:
  • Facilitating appointments, consults, and data abstraction prior to visits.
  • Coordinating treatment plans with investigators, clinicians, and other related staff in the clinics.
  • Communicating test results and findings, clarifying and counseling where needed/appropriate.
  • Aids subjects and their families in navigating the healthcare systems as related to their treatment.
  • Serving as point of contact for subjects and their healthcare team.
• Coordinating relevant care and protocol required testing for subjects enrolled on your assigned trials including educating subjects on protocol specifics.
• Interpreting and collecting medical and clinical data for prospective and existing enrolled subjects on assigned clinical trials.
• Working with core office staff to manage compliance for your portfolio as established by the sponsoring agency, internal and external regulatory groups, and financial oversight teams in addition to managing patient safety and risk for your studies.
• Coordinating sample collection, analysis, and shipping for assigned trials.

This is a professional position ideal for candidates with clinical experience in oncology or other similarly complex disease group and/or clinical research coordination.

This position reports to the Experimental Therapeutics Manager. A complete job description will be provided to candidates selected for interview. 

Minimum Requirements:

Graduate of a nationally accredited nursing program and four years of professional nursing experience. Licensed as a registered nurse in accordance with Chapter 464, Florida Statutes.

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge/Experience:

• A Master’s Degree in Nursing, Health Care, and/or Basic Sciences.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience or training in research or oncology.
• Extensive experience with databases and/or subject data.
• Professional certification in clinical research (through SOCRA or ACRP) and/or oncology (OCN or similar).

Qualities:

• Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective, independent, interact professionally, and utilize effective writing and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work with a broad range of people including investigators, physicians, clinic and hospital staff, sponsors, partners at other institutions, UFHCC staff, and others.
• Forward-thinking mentality, actively seeking opportunities and proposing creative solutions with strong decision-making capability.

Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated understanding and effective use of Emotional Intelligence strategies and skills.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders and critical staff, both internally and externally, through a variety of communication mediums and venues.
• Project manager mindset and basic skills including: delegation, scheduling, communication, critical thinking, task and quality management, risk management, and flexibility.
• Proficiency using the Microsoft Office suite.

About UF Health Cancer Center

At the UF Health Cancer Center our mission is to prevent, detect, treat, and ultimately cure cancer while addressing the unique challenges of the cancer burden faced by the population we serve. Whether working directly in clinical trials with our faculty researchers and patients or operating behind the desk in administration, each of our employees has a critical role to play in the success of our Center and the discoveries that are made here. The Cancer Center serves as the nucleus for the diverse institutional programs of research, education, and clinical approaches that are necessary to improve cancer outcomes. With more than 250 researchers and clinicians at the University and UF Health conducting research for the prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of cancer our collaborative research model encourages the transition of basic laboratory findings to novel curative and preventative therapies. This multidisciplinary membership is our strength, and our net is cast wide. Researchers are drawn from 69 departments and 11 colleges across the University and collaborate with dozens of other UF multidisciplinary centers and institutes—including the McKnight Brain Institute, Prot...on Therapy Institute (one of only seven such facilities in the nation), Genetics Institute, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Institute on Aging, and the Emerging Pathogens Institute, among others.

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