Patient Information Administration Assistant

PATIENT INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT

Salary: £27,500 per annum

Reports to: Clinical Trials Administration Manager

Department: Policy, Information and Communications

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford office w/ high-flex (1-2 days per week)

Closing date: Thursday 13 February 2025, 23:55

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Patient Information Administration Assistant. We need you to provide administrative support to the Health & Patient information team, and help ensure information on the Clinical Trials Database is up to date. Further to this, you will help manage the team's workload and ensure prompt delivery of work.

What will I be doing?

• Uploading new trial summaries to the website and adding result summaries to closed trials

• Helping to identify trials and studies not already listed on the database and creating new records on internal databases

• Sending trial and result summaries to external reviewers to review and approve

• Requesting trial information and trial results as directed, amending trial information on the website and updating internal databases accordingly

• Helping to search for published papers of trial results and order from the library if needed

• Assisting with sending material to external reviewers and chasing up as necessary

• Assisting with updating reviewer and lay reviewer databases

• Providing general admin support to team and undertaking any other reasonable tasks, as delegated by line manager.

What skills will I need?

• Proven administrative ability

• Ability to prioritise workload, work proactively on own initiative, and to work flexibly as part of a team

• Excellent attention to detail; systematic in approach and observant

• Excellent IT skills; familiarity with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and database packages and use of online resources

• Ability to learn, and confidently use, a web-based content management system

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including face-to-face, via email and on the telephone

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.

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