Description:
The primary purpose of the Medical Monitor is to provide medical support required for the implementation of a NHMRC funded project, the CIRCAN ARROW trial, investigating the prevention of hospital admissions in over 2000 preschool aged children with recurrent wheeze. The study team includes paediatricians from the Children’s Inpatient Research Collaborative of Australia and New Zealand (CIRCAN) network from over 40 hospitals across Australasia. The medical monitor role would include tasks such as completion of informed consent, assessment of eligibility, review of adverse events, and signing of scripts for study medication.
Will require 5 to 10 hours per week.
To be successful, you'll have:
- Qualification and registration as a medical doctor.
- Experience in paediatric medicine.
- Excellent quality assurance skills, record keeping skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills, ability to multi-task to manage competing priorities within a busy trial.
- Ability to communicate clearly with diverse groups including community health professionals, parents, young children and their families.
- Ability to work independently, while also working constructively with supervisor/mentor, and as a team member.
- Good understanding of confidentiality, ethical and professional issues particularly around patient information.
- Ability to promote a harmonious team morale.
- An interest in paediatric medicine.
Capabilities and Personal Attributes:
- Good verbal and written communication.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment.
- Demonstrated ability to organise and plan, and to meet rigid and conflicting demands and deadlines, along with the ability to adapt to changed priorities.
- Demonstrate the ability to exercise sound judgment, initiative, diplomacy, tact and discretion as well as proven experience handling sensitive and personal information in a confidential and appropriate manner.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Liaising with ARROW fieldwork team to coordinate contact with potentially eligible families.
- Interviewing the parent or legal guardian of children, via telephone or videoconference, to confirm that the child meets the eligibility criteria for the ARROW trial and that the parent/legal guardian understand the participant information and consent form.
- Obtaining informed consent from the parent/legal guardian for eligible children to be enrolled in the ARROW trial.
- Identifying instances where decisions regarding the potential enrolment of a child in the ARROW trial should be referred to a medically trained Principal Investigator, then actioning this referral.
- Interviewing parents/guardians of children participating in the ARROW trial in accordance with the trial’s Safety Monitoring Plan. Determining the classification of adverse events in accordance with the Safety Monitoring Plan and referring the medically trained Principal Investigators as required.
Presenting the relevant adverse events at the ARROW trial Safety Monitoring Meetings.
Contributing to ARROW trial manuscripts and other forms of dissemination