Clinical Research Nurse

The Clinical Research Nurse will join the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) to support and coordinate the care of patients participating in cancer clinical trials. In this role, you will use your nursing expertise to help ensure patients are safely and successfully enrolled, monitored, and supported throughout their research participation. You will collaborate closely with clinical teams, research staff, and investigators-serving as a key coordinator and point of contact between patients, providers, and sponsors. This position focuses on ensuring study requirements are met, safety and data are carefully monitored, and participants feel supported and informed while receiving care from their cancer care team.

• This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
• This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable populations. The selected candidate will be required to pass an initial caregiver check to be eligible for employment under the Wisconsin Caregiver Law and every four years.

Why join us?

• Be part of an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, working with leaders in oncology research.
• Enjoy a hybrid schedule with one day per week remote work.
• No nights or weekends required-supporting your work-life balance.
• Help patients access cutting-edge therapies and play a role in advancing the future of cancer care, where patients often have limited treatment options and access to groundbreaking therapies.
• Grow your research career in a supportive, collaborative environment.

This position reports to the Clinical Team Manager and works under the general direction of the Principal Investigator(s) of each study.

• Provides appropriate treatment plan direction and information to study participants

• May provide expertise, training, and guidance to the community, peers, and/or students

• Serves as main point of contact and liaison to project participants, investigators, research sponsors, and the research team delivering study information in accordance with established research project standards and protocols

• Supervises the day-to-day activities of research work unit

• Provides professional nursing care to patients according to established protocols

• Secures and schedules logistics for clinical research projects according to the research plan

• Assists in the recruitment and screening of subjects for clinical studies by conducting physical health assessments

• Serves a primary point of contact for emergent study participant situations related to adverse effects or complications of the study

• Collects, verifies, and enters data into database and analyzes clinical information data

School of Medicine and Public Health, Carbone Cancer Center

Our mission is a commitment to defeating cancer through rapid application of groundbreaking research, prevention, and treatment. The University of Wisconsin (UW) Carbone Cancer Center has been an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center since 1973. UW Carbone is an integral part of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health, bringing together more than 330 physicians and scientists from 50 departments and nine schools to conduct research and translate laboratory discoveries into new patient treatments. UWCCC builds community by creating a collaborative, respectful, and welcoming environment in which all faculty, students, and staff will thrive.

The starting salary for the position is $70,000; but is negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

• Minimum one year nursing experience required.
• Candidates should have exceptional clinical nursing skills and expertise coupled with a strong interest in clinical research.
• Registered Nurse (RN) License required by start date of position.

• Prior experience working with Oncology patients is preferred.
• Prior clinical research experience preferred.

• Associate's Degree in Nursing is required; Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is preferred.

Aisha Liebenow, liebenow@wisc.edu
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