Research assistant

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $25.26 - $33.15 / hour
Job Summary

Are you passionate about healthcare research and making a meaningful impact on patient and provider experiences? Fraser Health is seeking a Temporary Part-Time Research Assistant to support research, leadership development, and quality improvement initiatives within a collaborative healthcare environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organized and analytical professional looking to grow their research and project coordination experience while contributing to meaningful healthcare outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Support research and leadership development initiatives through literature reviews, project applications, proposal development, presentations, publications, and project summaries.
• Collect, manage, analyze, and report research data using spreadsheets, databases, and statistical software to support evidence-informed decision-making.
• Recruit and engage study participants, maintain physician leader databases, obtain informed consent, and provide guidance on research procedures.
• Assist with project coordination, workflow management, budget monitoring, expense tracking, and administrative processes to support project delivery.
• Coordinate meetings, events, and stakeholder communications, including preparing agendas, minutes, reports, and follow-up action items.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a health-related discipline with clinical research experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, statistical analysis, and research ethics, confidentiality, and privacy practices.
• Strong technical skills in MS Office, Excel, Access, SPSS, and other research and data management tools.
• Demonstrated project coordination, analytical, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

At Fraser Health, we invite you to discover why employees recommend us to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, value diversity in our workforce, and foster an environment built on our shared values of Respect, Caring, and Trust.

We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, and the opportunity to be part of a dedicated team of professionals in a dynamic and rewarding healthcare environment.

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Provides support to all aspects of the assigned research program. The role assists the project leads with ethics applications and literature reviews, as well as the preparation of grant proposals, research presentations, posters and manuscripts for publication. Further, the role would also be responsible for the collection and entry of data, aggregation and reporting of summary statistics from large research projects and/or events. In addition, the role performs various administrative and clerical functions such as the coordinating of research meetings and events including networking dinners and educational workshops, as well as planning of agendas, and recording of meeting minutes.

Responsibilities

Assists with completion and submission of project applications, the development of data collections, and conducts preliminary literature reviews for each project, as required.

Assists in the collection and recording of research data by utilizing computer spreadsheet and database applications (such as MS Excel and SPSS), gathering and checking data and developing appropriate links and formulae for spreadsheets and databases summarizes information and generates reports using word processing and presentation graphics software applications.

Supports new research generation and knowledge dissemination activities through the preparation of project proposals, research presentations and posters, project summaries and manuscripts for publication.

Recruits and maintains registration databases of physician leader participation in leadership development opportunities.

Obtains informed consent and records number of participants approached for the research study.

Instruct study participants on required subject-specific research procedures; reviews procedures with the participants and provides additional information, as required.

Assists in coordinating the work flow within the assigned area or project. Receives, reviews, and processes information and takes follow-up action as required.

Assists in the monitoring of project budgets by gathering, compiling, and calculating information; researches expenses using online reporting functions, advises on variances.

Provides other administrative support functions including arranging internal/external meetings as required by booking rooms, notifying participants, confirming attendance, ordering catering, preparing agenda, conferences and seminars; prepares and distributes handouts and overheads; makes travel arrangements as necessary; maintains and organizes appointment calendars; records, prepares and distributes minutes and agenda. Conducts or ensures follows up on action items as required.

Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in a health-related discipline and one (1) year recent related clinical research experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Knowledge of research methodology including qualitative, quantitative, and statistical methods.
• Knowledge of research ethics including research confidentiality and privacy.
• Demonstrated knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to review and interpret applicable reports.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications, including MS Excel, MS Office, MS Access and SSPS.
• Demonstrated experience in project coordination.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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