Clinical Investigator

**Add a new experience to your professional medical career**:

- ** Be at the forefront of leading research and development**:

- ** Lead and work closely with a collaborative team**

Our client, PCRN Limited is a private medical research company, with sites across New Zealand. Running clinical trials across a multitude of therapeutic areas, each site is staffed by a dedicated team with a national support team providing administrative and recruitment services. PCRN believe in promoting a supportive and professional work environment. Bringing new treatment opportunities to a community of volunteers is what makes working with them so rewarding. This rare opportunity for a registered Medical Practitioner to join the team located in Rotorua, conducting later phase clinical trials.
The role of Investigator is a specialised and important role, performing critical trial-related procedures and making important trial related decisions. The Investigator will at times be designated to work as the Principal Investigator for a clinical trial and will incur additional duties and responsibilities if this is the case. This role is being offered as a Contractor position.

**The Investigator will**:

- Ensure compliance with all ICH-GCP guidelines, local regulations, sponsors and company policies and procedures
- Communicate with the research team to ensure all clinical trial-related tasks are conducted appropriately and ethically
- Ensure compliance with standard of care, consent, and documentation requirements
- Assist with participant recruitment and retention
- Notify participants primary care physician about their clinical trial participation
- Inform participants when medical care is needed for inter-current illnesses
- Ensure that investigational products are only used in accordance with the approved protocols
- Ensure participants are fully informed
- Conduct the trial, following all compliances and protocols, overseeing consent processes compliance
- Ensure all quality assurance, regulatory, documentation and reporting compliances are met
- Complete all trial administration correctly and accurately, reporting any adverse events within required time frames
- Communicate with the sponsoring company
- Ensure requirements are met for each trial
- Ensure all start-up processes are followed, and documents are accurate
- Assist with budget proposals and contract negotiations
- Participate in site initiation visits, monitoring visits and investigator meetings
- Direct or delegate appropriate participant recruitment and retention
- Current New Zealand Medical Council Registration
- Experience with clinical trials (preferable, but not essential)
- Excellent leadership and mentoring skills, leading by example, and providing direction- Flexibility, although this work is typically Monday to Friday, able to meet changing requirements associated with the nature of clinical trials (including early morning and weekend work at times)- Excellent administration and computing skills
- High attention to detail, maintaining excellent documentation practices
- Awareness of fundamental business principles and an awareness of the clinical trial industry
- A high degree of judgement, discretion, and confidentiality

**Why PCRN?**

Working as part of an expert team with competitive remuneration and an exciting place to work. PCRN is built on, and values working as a team. You’ll experience absolute professionalism, with a hint of humour and collaboration. This is an exciting new role, with a strong and supportive management team and a great reputation.

**RECRUITMENT INFORMATION**

Applications will be reviewed as received.