Job Description

Classification Title:

Clinical Research Assistant

Job Description:

This full-time position is located in the Department of Physical Therapy, in the College of Public Health and Health Professions.

The incumbent will work with a team of personnel on a human research subject study of how people with pain conditions respond to exercise. The incumbent will interact with research participants, assist with survey completion, perform quantitative sensory testing, assess strength, and supervise exercise sessions for participants with and without pain conditions. Other duties will involve administrative tasks related to research participant screening and scheduling, data management, assisting with meetings/training sessions/conferences, maintaining documentation concerning study protocols and regulatory compliance.

The Mechanisms and Modification of Pain Modulatory Capacity project is overseen by Dr. Michael Robinson, a clinical and health psychologist (https://internal.medicine.ufl.edu/profile/robinson-michael/), and Dr. Mark Bishop, a physical therapist (https://pt.phhp.ufl.edu/profile/bishop-mark/). Both have extensive experience working with people who have chronic pain conditions.

The overarching goal of the project is to understand how a person’s own internal systems for inhibiting pain can be improved through interventions. The project works with people who do and do not have chronic pain conditions. This project proposes to understand the sources of pain variability and demonstrate that pain variability represents fluctuation in natural pain management. The project further proposes to train people to maximize their body’s ability to manage pain, much as increasing athletic performance can be trained.

Position details include:

Clinical Research Support

• Apply data collection methods in working with research participants.
• Supervise and assist survey completion, perform quantitative sensory testing using thermal and pressure stimuli, assess arm strength, and supervise exercise sessions for participants with and without pain conditions.
• Training will be provided by the supervising investigators as well as regular review of the methods.
• The incumbent will also assist graduate research personnel in other tasks such as accompanying participants between testing buildings within the Health Science Center.

Patient/Research Participant Scheduling

• Administrative tasks related to research participant screening and scheduling.
• Regular use of Microsoft Outlook.
• Coordination of the schedule across multiple rooms and facilities, accessing the scheduling system of the Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (AMRIS) research facility.

Data Management

• Data management and processing of study data.
• Maintain documentation concerning study protocols and regulatory compliance.
• Manage REDCap interface in which data is entered.
• Post-processing of de-identified data downloaded from REDCap in Microsoft Excel.
• Manage myIRB interface where regulatory documents are housed, which requires all appropriate IRB training be completed.

Assist with Meetings/Conferences

• Attend testing sessions in person and interact with members of the public, e.g. customer service, sales, etc.
• Attend research staff team meetings.

Complete other tasks as needed.  

Expected Salary:

$20.00 - $22.00 per hour; commensurate with education, skills, and experience.

Minimum Requirements:

High school diploma or equivalent and one year of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience performing physical assessments of strength and sensory testing with human subject’s research.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

In order to be considered, you must upload your cover letter and resume.

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.

This position is time-limited.

This position is eligible for veteran's preference.  If you are claiming veteran's preference, please upload a copy of your DD 214 Member Copy with your application for consideration. 

If an accommodation is needed to apply for this position, please call 352-392-2477 or the Florida Relay System at 800-955-8771 TDD. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the U.S. Searches are conducted according to Florida's Sunshine Law.

Health Assessment Required:Yes

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