Senior Clinical Research Associate

MAC Research Group; Glasgow, Lancashire, Liverpool City Region, South Staffordshire; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive clinical research organization is seeking a Senior Clinical Research Associate to join their team in Glasgow. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of experience in a CRA role within the pharmaceutical or CRO industries. Key responsibilities include facilitating communication between sites, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and independently executing monitoring visits. This hybrid role requires significant travel, approximately 70% of the time. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health Insurance

Eye Care Vouchers

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years in a CRA role within the Pharmaceutical or CRO Industries.
• Significant on-site, independent monitoring experience.
• Good knowledge of drug development process and clinical trial process.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates effective communications as primary contact point for investigator sites.
• Ensure compliance with protocol and regulatory requirements.
• Document and record monitoring activities in CTMS.

Skills

Monitoring experience

Time management skills

Inter-personal skills

Ability to work independently

Risk identification and mitigation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in healthcare or scientific discipline

Job description

MAC Clinical Research CRO services are well established; driven by teams made up of highly experienced individuals who are experts in their fields.

We have an opening for a Senior Clinical Research Associate (Senior CRA) and are looking for experienced professional to make a positive impact in a growing and progressive CRO. You will be joining a company that puts the needs and wellbeing of their people first, who are inclusive and who deliver exceptional service – together.

This is a hybrid role, the successful candidate will be required to travel to any one of the MAC sites (Glasgow, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, South Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Teesside and West Yorkshire) and live in the North West England area.

You must be available to travel around 70% of the time, for this reason we’re inviting applications from applicants who have a full and valid UK driving licence with access to their own transport, insured for business travel and can safely commute each day to any one of our clinics.

KEY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a health care or other scientific discipline
• A minimum of 3 years in a CRA role within the Pharmaceutical or CRO Industries
• Significant on-site, independent monitoring experience.
• Good knowledge of drug development process, surrounding regulatory framework and the overall clinical trial process.
• Excellent time management skills to organise and prioritise workload.
• Able to work independently and proactively.
• Excellent inter-personal skills.
• Ability to lead by example on process development, departmental and project objectives, and overall business strategy and initiatives.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Able to proactively identify risks and issues and be able to devise mitigation and contingency

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Performs the Project CRA role independently and at an advanced level of quality:

• Facilitates effective communications as primary contact point for investigator sites, sponsor, and MAC project team through written, oral and/or electronic contact reports.
• Verify the study Investigators and site personnel are conducting the study in compliance with protocol, ICH-GCP and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Conduct Pre-study or site selection (PSSV), site initiation (SIV), remote monitoring (R-IMV), risk-based monitoring (rb-IMV), close out visits (COV) according to the agreed scope of work.
• Document and record monitoring activities and observations in CTMS/agreed reporting system within required timelines. Escalate observed deficiencies and issues to the LCRA and project team expeditiously. Follow and record issues through to resolution.
• Develop high levels of familiarity and compliance with study specific Monitoring Plan, Project Plan and Risk Assessment, raising issues as needed.
• Monitor and report on clinical study progress, working with Data Management to ensure steady flow of data and data queries as per project timelines.
• Confirm reported data is correct, accurate, complete, and verifiable against source documentation as per the project Monitoring Plan. Raise data queries in the production of clean data and follow up to conclusion.
• IMP/Device management and accountability
• Identify and communicate potential project risks and issues.
• Attend investigator meetings.
• Provide site training, acting as site process specialist, ensuring the study is conducted as per protocol, ICH GCP, applicable regulations, and SOPs to guarantee participants rights, well-being, and data reliability.
• Prepare for interim or data base lock.
• Review study documentation for compliance and to ensure identification and reporting of safety issues, when applicable, from research site staff to the LCRA, project team, sponsor, and the IRB/IEC.
• Review accuracy and completeness of site records (i.e., essential documents relating to the clinical study which will enable quality and conduct to be evaluated as per ICH GCP and EudraLex, query resolution, and other data collection tools);
• Ensure the site is identifying issues and implementing corrective and preventive actions to ensure inspection readiness.
• Support the Lead CRA in the oversight, planning and management of the study.

PLANNING AND ORGANISATION

• Prioritise and monitor own workload to ensure the correct studies are being focused on at the correct time, escalation as appropriate.
• Identify quality problems and recommend solutions.
• Assist in harmonization of processes across all MAC sites.
• Work with colleagues to ensure corrections and updates are completed appropriately and in a timely manner.

DEPARTMENT AND PROCESS

• Provide oversight of CRA team members to confirm quality of work.
• Conduct study specific evaluation visits if required and delegated on the provision that evaluation visit training has been completed prior to delegated task.
• Contribute to ongoing department quality process and system improvements.
• Support ongoing training, mentoring and development of Clinical Monitoring team members.
• Provide expert Clinical Monitoring inputs across MAC, their clients, and sites.
• Proactively escalation to Management as appropriate in a timely manner

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary in keeping with pharmaceutical industry standards that will reflect experience
• Health Insurance
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme