clinical program manager - New York, NY, United States - Mount Sinai Hospital

Description

Job Description

The Clinical Program Manager provides clinical support and administrative direction for the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit (EPTU) group within the Tisch Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Office (TCI CCTO).

In collaboration with the Executive Director, clinical trials investigators, and TCI CCTO Administration; this candidate is responsible for the implementation and conduct of clinical trials with investigational anti-cancer agents in the Cancer Institute. The Candidate must have expert knowledge of cancer as a disease process, cancer treatment modalities, and the process of conducting clinical research. The Candidate will follow a caseload of patients in the ambulatory setting and assist in the administration and plan of the research program.

The Clinical Program Manager will report into the CCTO's Executive Director (for research responsibilities) and Ruttenberg Treatment Center's Nursing Administration (for clinical responsibilities).

Responsibilities

Administrative Responsibilities:

• Supervises Clinical Research Coordinator positions and other CRNs to ensure protocol compliance, accurate data collection and sample acquisition.
• Develops educational programs for the Nursing Staff regarding specific protocols.
• Manage clinical trials portfolio and assure timely regulatory start-up of protocols.
• Monitor accruals and identify opportunities to grow research program.
• Liaison with industry sponsors and CROs.
• Liaison with CCTO office (including pre-award, post award and QAP).

Clinical Research Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating study enrollment, establishing a database of patients, protocol treatment and follow-up care for patients participating in clinical trials.
• Collaborates with primary nursing staff to provide nursing care to patients receiving therapy on a clinical research trial.
• Assists the principal investigator in the process of assuring adequate informed consent.
• Assures the primary nursing staff understands how to administer investigational agents per specifications of the protocol.
• Assures that blood sampling and specimen preparation is accomplished per specifications of the protocol; and monitors test results, as appropriate Documents clinical study and therapy in patient's chart and all other databases as required.
• In collaboration with the Nursing Staff, assesses patients on study for complications related to therapy.
• Communicates observations/findings to attending physicians and in medical records are required.
• Ensures that drug dosing and sample collections times are recorded on study worksheets.
• Provides in-service training and serves as a resource to other clinical personnel including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health care professionals.
• Communicates with referring and affiliated physicians to ensure documentation of clinical findings throughout the clinical trial.
• Collaborates with attending physicians to identify and recruit patients eligible for clinical trial.
• Establishes and maintains database of prospective patients for clinical trials within CTMS.
• Oversees scheduling of patient laboratory and radiologic assessments, admissions, and clinic visits.
• Establishes mechanisms to ensure complete and accurate data collection and documentation.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• The Clinical Program Manager is responsible for assuring compliance with mandated clinical interventions inclusive of core measures within the department and the Medical Center. This individual interfaces directly with MSMC Departments, Administrators, Nursing, Medical and Quality Leadership, and Clinical Staff, overseeing administrative and daily operations of the core measures and clinical intervention compliance program.
• In conjunction with Nursing, Medical and Quality Leadership, coordinates core measures and clinical intervention compliance activities
• Assists in development and design of action plans to support compliance with measures indicators and provides support and educational resources to departments and services relative to core measures quality assessment and improvement processes.
• Assists in establishing and implementing short and long term goals, objectives, policies and operating procedures for core measures programs.
• Provides coordination and leadership in the execution of day to day program activities, as appropriate to program objectives and areas of expertise.
• Oversees the collection, compilation, and analysis of clinical program activity data.
• Provides technical assistance, resource services, consultation and education to clinical departments relative to core measures activities.

Qualifications

Education:

1. Licensure: New York State License with current registration as a registered professional nurse.
2. Bachelors of Nursing degree required
3. Master's Degree or NP with certification in specialty area preferred (i.e. BCLS, ACLS, OCN and/or AOCNP)
4. Certification in specialty area preferred.

Experience:

• Progressive clinical job related experience specific to area of responsibility.
• 5 years directly related experience, some supervisory preferred.

About Us

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The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's The World's Best Smart Hospitals ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.

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