**Research**
**Brisbane**
**Full Time**
**Icon Research**
**Clinical Research Assistant - Icon Research**
Support our research operations and clinical trials undertaken on-site at our cancer treatment centre in **Auchenflower **(Medical Oncology & Haematology), as part of our nationwide trials programs across Icon Research:
- **All-Round Oncology Research Role**: Excellent hands-on cancer treatment research opportunity, with support/training from on-site coordinators, team leads, governance officers, oncologists, pharmacists, oncology nurses and the greater Icon Research community.
- **Career Progression**: Clear upskilling, progression and development pathways across Icon Research: Australia's largest (and growing) private cancer clinical trials program.
- **Competitive Remuneration**, Rewards Programs, Training Programs and Personal Development opportunities.
- **Permanent, Full**-**Time (Monday-Friday) - Icon Cancer Centre Wesley **(Wesley Medical Centre, Level 1, 40 Chasely Street, Auchenflower QLD 4066)
**Is this the opportunity for you?**
- We're hoping to find applicants with undergraduate degrees (or working towards) in fields such as health sciences, nursing, allied health and/or experience in any similar fields. If a career in research is what you are looking for, we'd love to hear from you_
**Why choose us?**
Icon Group is Australia's largest dedicated cancer care provider with a growing reach into New Zealand and Asia. With over 3000 employees company-wide, the Group's cancer services include over 40 cancer centres, 4 large chemotherapy compounding facilities and over 60 pharmacies across Australia.
As a purpose-led organisation, we are committed to changing the dial on healthcare outcomes across Asia Pacific and beyond. Icon exists to deliver the best healthcare possible as close to home as possible for patients across the globe.
**Clinical trials at Icon Group**
To help deliver a robust trials portfolio, Icon Group work with over 200 collaborators including Contract Research Organisations (CROs), commercial and non-commercial organisations (including the pharmaceutical industry hospital and universities), industry vendors and service providers. We deliver clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry and collaborative groups, as well as in-house investigator-initiated trials across our multidisciplinary clinical team, clinical registries, compounding, physics and dosimetric research.
Icon's growing research footprint is comprised of over 90 principal investigators working across 20 cancer centres in Australia, with a comprehensive workforce of experienced researchers and administrative team members who support clinicians and the delivery of clinical trials across several Icon locations.
Icon offers Australia's largest private cancer clinical trials program. We have over 120 clinical trials open for recruitment and over 800 patients currently on active trials across haematology, medical oncology and radiation oncology and conduct trials from phase I through to phase IV.
**About the role**:
We have an exciting full-time role (Monday to Friday) opportunity based at our centre located within our Icon Cancer Centre Wesley (Auchenflower). You will join our collaborative and expanding research team as a Clinical Research Assistant and be responsible for supporting research activities at the site.
This is an amazing opportunity to be involved in a change to our research team at a site level and complement a growing trials portfolio. You will report to the site-based research coordinator team leader and they will provide you with the support to coordinate and conduct the day to day management of administrative tasks associated with clinical trials.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Collect, process and dispatch samples and other materials required by clinical research protocols and prepare and manage clinical trial laboratory kits and samples
- Prepare patient visit requirements, assist in appointment scheduling and external hospital liaison for tissue requirements or medical information.
- Provide support to the research staff in relation to clinical trial administration tasks
- Provide support to the investigators conducting clinical trials by ensuring trial documentation is prepared and ready for their review/sign off
- Manage investigator site files and essential documents as per GCP
- Facilitate the attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original and accurate collection of source data
- Work closely with monitors for ongoing monitoring at site and facilitate remote visits
- Occasionally travel between our clinics as needed to support the conduct and oversight of cross-clinic research activity
**About you**:
We are seeking passionate individuals who are eager to join our team. You will have the ability to manage your workload and build professional relationships with various healthcare professionals at your assigned clinic. You will also be able to independe