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About the Role

This temporary full-time opportunity is for a Research Assistant I within the Women’s College Research Institute, reporting to the Principal Investigator and Research Manager. The role is part of the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit and focuses on collecting study participant data through interviews and medical record reviews.

Responsibilities

• Conduct telephone, online, or in-person recruitment interviews to collect study participant data, including obtaining informed consent.
• Complete review of medical records to collect research data.
• Prepare detailed notes of all interactions with participants.
• Complete data entry and quality control, ensuring accuracy and integrity of data collection.
• Investigate missing or invalid data and prepare data sets.
• Maintain research files for storing, accessing, and retrieving study data.
• Prepare and mail follow-up questionnaires to research participants or collaborators.
• Prioritize and monitor various study deadlines for own work.
• Provide administrative support, including filing, photocopying, acquiring signatures, and CV maintenance.
• Assist team members with preparing materials for proposals, progress reports, presentations, and publications.
• Act as a role model and champion, identifying and integrating safe, best practices into daily activities to foster the delivery of safe and exemplary care.

Requirements

• Applicants must reside and be legally eligible to work in Ontario.
• Some understanding of research design and research ethics.
• Some experience in a health research setting preferred.
• Some experience in cancer genetics research preferred.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Work efficiently under pressure with strong judgment and decision-making skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Demonstrated record of good performance and acceptable attendance will be considered as part of the selection criteria.
• Professional behaviour and communication that meets the standards of the professional regulatory college or association, as applicable, and the standards of Women’s College Hospital.
• Plays a critical role in acting as an advocate for safety and will demonstrate principles, practices and processes that will optimize a safe environment for all.

Skills

• MS Office applications including Excel, Outlook, Access and Word an asset

Location

• Ontario

Work Type

• Temporary Full Time
• Full Time

Experience Level

• One year of equivalent experience

Education Level

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in a related field

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• Excellent defined benefit pension plan (HOOPP)

About the Company

• Women's College Hospital (WCH) is an academic, ambulatory care hospital in Ontario with a focus on health for women, health equity and health system solutions.
• Healthcare Revolutionized 2030 is our roadmap to the future.
• Our strategy is built on the pledge that the founders of our hospital made 140 years ago and reaffirms our commitment to providing equitable, accessible, best-in-class healthcare for everyone – meeting people where they are on their healthcare journey and partnering with them to reach their goals of living their healthiest lives possible.
• Women’s College Hospital is committed to equity, quality and patient safety as key professional values and essential components of daily practice.
• Women's College Hospital may use artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision-making tools during various points in the recruitment and selection processes.
• Women's College Hospital has no control over these external platform tools.
• Employment at Women’s College Hospital is conditional upon the verification of credentials, completion of a health review, and proof of immunity and vaccination status for vaccine-preventable diseases, in alignment with WCH Communicable Disease Surveillance protocols.
• Women's College Hospital is a fully affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto.

Equal Opportunity

• Women's College Hospital is committed to fairness and equity in employment and our recruitment and selection practices.
• We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, members of racialized groups, women and any others who may contribute to the further diversification of our Hospital community.
• Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under our Access for People with Disabilities policy.
• Applicants need to make their requirements known in advance.