⚠️ Send to bruno.aouizerate@u-bordeaux.fr
Job title: Clinical Research Nurse
Functional managers: Expert Center Managers, Senior Health Executive
Work location: Charles Perrens Hospital Center – 121 rue de la Béchade – CS 81285 – 33076 Bordeaux Cedex
VU le Code général de la fonction publique et notamment ses articles L 332-15 à L 332-17, L 352 à L 352-4, L 352-6
🧑⚕️ Facilitate the deployment and monitoring of the French Minds cohort at the Bordeaux investigation site, as part of the PEPR PROPSY precision psychiatry research program, in conjunction with the clinical research associate (CRA) and the psychiatrist who are coordinating it
- Liaise with the various bodies involved with the investigators, healthcare managers, and the CRA (Expert Center, Fondation FondaMental, research department, etc.)
- Participate in internal research meetings
- Ensure the quality and compliance of a study (methodology, experimental procedure, etc.)
- Train and integrate new professionals
- Organize the logistics necessary for the project under the responsibility of the healthcare manager and the investigator physician, in conjunction with the CRA
- Manage administrative tasks
Assist the investigator with the essential steps of the protocol, as follows:
✔️ Checking eligibility criteria with the investigating psychiatrist before including patients in the study
✔️ Ensuring that the instrumental tasks are carried out and the blood samples planned for the project are taken
✔️ Monitoring the progress and traceability of the blood samples collected for each phase of the study
✔️ Ensuring the collection of standard biological data
✔️ Ensure the collection of standard parameters, including measurements of blood pressure, heart rate, abdominal and head circumference, weight, and height for BMI calculation
✔️ Ensure the clinical assessments and tablet-based ratings proposed by the study
✔️ Verify the completion of self-assessments
- Obtain information on ongoing research
- Know how to assess your workload and interactions with other stakeholders (team members or external parties)
- Prevent potential problems and propose solutions with the CRA and the study manager
- Detect and correct inconsistencies in the protocol or data collected in conjunction with the CRA and the study manager
- Manage stocks related to your role
- If necessary, use the RADAR unit’s emergency trolley, in coordination with the healthcare manager and the delegated physician
- Liaise between the various parties involved in the research
🎓 Degree and/or qualification
State nursing degree
University degree in clinical studies or other scientific fields such as DIU (inter-university diploma)
ARC (in the case of recruitment of an agent with joint IDE/ARC skills)
📝 Knowledge
Knowledge of scientific English
Knowledge of institutional/academic research organization
Knowledge of mental health, if possible
🤝 Interpersonal skills
Demonstrate impartiality, objectivity, and discretion
Good listening skills, diplomacy, and openness
Satisfactory assessment and communication skills with various institutional and other stakeholders
Ability to lead and motivate team members to successfully complete the project
Be able to provide feedback and alert functional and line managers responsible for monitoring the research
Be able to work in a multidisciplinary team
Demonstrate organization, method, and availability
Be able to manage emotions
Demonstrate good self-control
🤝 Expertise
Knowledge and mastery of technical procedures for responding to life-threatening emergencies—organization, prioritization of actions
Computer skills—Professional confidentiality
Planning, organizing, distributing workload, and allocating resources for their completion
Teamwork
Ability to adapt procedures, protocols, and instructions related to one’s area of expertise
Knowledge of English and mastery of office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, internet, ECRF, etc.)
Internal relations
Doctors, paramedical staff, psychologists/neuropsychologists, and the CRA at the Bordeaux expert investigation center
The Medical and General Affairs and Research Department at the Charles Perrens Hospital Center
External relations
The Bordeaux University Hospital (CRB, neuroimaging platform, etc.)
The FondaMental Foundation and the PEPR PROPSY coordination team.
Specific features of the position
Full-time or part-time position
Working hours organized according to the protocol in force at the Charles Perrens Hospital Center