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Req #: 245611

Department: SURGERY

Posting Date: 04/25/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 05/09/2025

Salary: $21.14 - $23.22 per hour

Shift: Alternate Work Shift

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908\_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

UW’s Department of Surgery has an exciting opportunity for a Research Study Assistant, which is part of UW School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery.

The Research Study Assistant, under the guidance of the Research Study Coordinator Lead, assists in the operations of research studies for the Department of Surgery, HMC Trauma, Burn & Critical Care Division at Harborview Medical Center.

POSITION PURPOSE

As an integral member of the team, the Research Study Assistant collaborates/works with to provide

1. Research Study Coordination – 50%

Efficiently coordinate, assist in enrollment and monitor all aspects of study subject participation. Must have a thorough understanding of pertinent inclusion criteria.

2. Management of Study Data – 50%

Efficiently coordinate all aspects of subject study data and monitor quality controls to ensure adherence to study protocol.

The successful candidate will be skilled at coordinating and monitoring subject participation; obtaining subject samples and performing the required SOPs for sample preparation; monitoring and managing the program database.

Our Mission and How This Position Contributes:

Department Mission:

The Department of Surgery is a large department within the School of Medicine, with surgeons practicing at all our locations and in eight surgical subspecialties. The UW Department of Surgery is guided by our mission of providing compassionate and high-quality patient care, training future generations of surgical leaders, and conducting research in a collegial environment that embraces diversity and promotes inclusiveness.

Division/Center Mission:

The Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center at Harborview Medical Center provides the highest level of comprehensive care for major injuries. The Division of Trauma, Burn and Critical Care Surgery is based at Harborview Medical Center. The only Level 1 (regional) Trauma Center serving Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, this clinical arm of Harborview - known as Harborview's Level I Adult & Pediatric Trauma Center - cares for emergency surgical and trauma patients and is closely linked to the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center. Working closely with Plastic Surgery division, Trauma, Burn and Critical Care Surgery provides highly skilled, emergency and rehabilitative burn care for victims in the four-state region. By cooperative agreement with Children's Hospital, Harborview is also the region's only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center.

The Department of Surgery is a large department within the School of Medicine, with surgeons practicing at all our locations and in eight surgical subspecialties. The UW Department of Surgery is guided by our mission of providing compassionate and high-quality patient care, training future generations of surgical leaders, and conducting research in a collegial environment which embraces diversity and promotes inclusiveness.

This position contributes by supporting and maintaining the vast portfolios of research within the Department of Surgery

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI):

The Department of Surgery strives to dismantle systemic racism, eliminate healthcare disparities, and promote health equity in our work. Racism and intolerance have no place in our community. We celebrate our multitude of intersecting identities and commit to the ongoing effort of creating an inclusive and supportive workplace climate.

All staff in the Department of Surgery are asked to demonstrate and develop the following core competencies:

1. Quality Focus: strives to deliver the best possible service and results, and continuously seeks opportunities for improvement.

• Key attributes: accuracy, customer service, continuous improvement, problem solving, and self-development

2. Planning & Organization: completes work in a timely, efficient, and resourceful manner

• Key attributes: priority setting, efficiency, resourcefulness, adaptability and flexibility, organizational awareness, and initiative

3. Teamwork & Relationship Building: builds and fosters positive working relationships with others to achieve shared objectives.

• Key attributes: collaboration, communication, emotional intelligence, recognition, and accountability, and integrity

4. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: values and honors diverse experiences and perspectives, strives to create welcoming and respectful work environments including dismantling structures of oppression, promotes and contributes to a culture of access, opportunity, and justice.

• Key attributes: respect, cultural humility, inclusiveness, advocacy, and commitment

**Position Duties & Responsibilities:** Research Study Coordination: (50%)

+ Have knowledge of the inclusion/exclusion criteria for the study

+ Identify possible subject enrollment in a timely manner

+ Use of Epic for subject screening, monitoring, and obtaining medical information

+ Communicate with hospital personnel on possible procedures and treatments that will affect the subject’s enrollment

+ Communicate with patients and/or family members to provide an explanation of the study and consent form

+ Communicate with the lead Research Study Coordinator and/or Research Nurse Coordinator on subject enrollmentManagement of Study Data: (50%)

+ Maintain adherence to research protocols and verify the accuracy of research study data

+ Accurately enter patient information into the database

+ Have knowledge of the database descriptors and categories

+ Assist in the design and maintenance of the study database **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** Two years of college-level course work in a relevant academic area AND one year of appropriate experience OR equivalent education/experience **Additional Qualifications:**

+ Proficient in using Microsoft Office **Desired/Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Knowledge of medical terminology

+ Knowledge of Epic

+ Experience in an inpatient setting with trauma patients

+ Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field **Conditions of Employment:**

+ This position is 100% on-site

+ The position’s work is located at HMC

+ This position will work in an inpatient setting with trauma patients

+ May need to work evening and night hours as required by studyWe hope you will apply and please learn more about our department, values, and core competencies at https://uwsurgery.org/about/staff/

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.