Research Assistant 1 HSS

About the position

The Research Assistant will be working at the CNRU of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. There are additional duties that take place at the Yale PET Imaging Center and the Yale MR Center. The studies are PET Imaging Studies exploring neurobiological alterations in persons with opioid and cocaine use disorder. The Research Assistant needs to help with the advertisement for the study, telephone screenings by phone, telephone screenings in person, preparing case report files for each participant, registering participant with electronic medical record system at CMHC, arranging transportation for participants, coordinating with inpatient unit admission for the conduction of the studies (studies take place as inpatient for participants with opioid and cocaine use disorder) as well as coordination with Yale PET and Yale MR Center for PET scans and MRIs, doing paper and semi-structure questionnaires, going computerized assessments, storing data gathered during the study, managing expense reports for items such as transportation, paying participants for their role in the studies using approved systems such as Oncore, initiating and maintaining regulatory materials with different agencies such as the Yale IRB and clinicaltrials.gov, helping with analyses of the data, interpretation of the results, participation in scholar activities such as abstracts or manuscripts' preparation, and presenting results at National Conferences.

Responsibilities

• Researches and collects data through site or home visit intakes; library research; structured interviews; or through other means for designated research assignments.
• Records and compiles information related to research data. Codes data accordingly to research specifications.
• Uses a computer terminal to input and retrieve data and to generate reports.
• Processes and summarizes data using scientific or statistical techniques.
• Assists in data interpretation and analyses. Reports on status of research activities.
• Recruits study participants and ensures that subject recruitment and follow-up are completed per protocol procedures.
• Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.
• May assist in designing, developing, and modifying research experiments, procedures, or survey instruments.
• May assist research and support staff.
• Performs additional functions incidental to research activities.

Requirements

• Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate's degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in a related field such as Psychology or Neuroscience.
• Proven experience recruiting subjects on a clinical research study.
• Proven experience with participants suffering from substance use disorders.
• Proven experience with SPSS.