Nurse Interviewer

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The Population Group seeks a full-time Nurse-Interviewer for the Carolina Breast Cancer Study Phase 4 (CBCS4). Duties include traveling to participants homes, obtaining informed consents, conducting research interviews, and completing study required assessments such as measurements and blood draws. The Nurse-Interviewer must be able to strictly adhere to study protocols.

This study aims to recruit 3,000 participants, randomly chosen from cases submitted from the Central Cancer Registry. The Nurse-Interviewer will be expected conduct the in-home visit in a timely manner, at a time convenient to both the participant and themselves (which may include evenings and weekends). After each visit, the Nurse-Interviewer will deliver collected specimens to the UNC Biospecimen Processing Facility either in-person or through other means allowed by protocol. The Nurse-Interviewer is also expected to travel to Chapel Hill once a week to pick-up and return study materials from the CBCS4 office.

Additional responsibilities include:

*Assist with cleaning, coding, and entering study data in respective data management systems.

*Participate in the collection and tracking of medical record and tumor block releases for subjects who have received treatment for cancers under the studies within the Population Group.

*Gather, clean, and enter medical record provider information into respective data management systems.

*Identify and disseminate information to study participants regarding available local community resources, as well as research and advise on resources that may be beneficial for study participants.

*Track participants that are lost to contact and/or coordinating with study coordinators to complete this task.

This assignment is not to exceed 5 years.

Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina and two years of experience in the area of specialization.

• Exceptionally strong organization and time management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are necessary to ensure successful communication with the full study team and with study participants.
• Ability to work well independently and within a research team is critical to ensure aims of the Population Group studies are met efficiently and effectively.
• Diligent adherence to all best practices and regulations related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

• The preferred candidate will have prior experience in working with diverse patient populations or with large epidemiology and/or cancer research studies with human subjects and in collecting specimens.
• Good investigative/analytic skills, excellent attention to detail, proficiency in Microsoft Office 365.

• Must reside in the greater Charlotte, NC, region due to the large number of participants living in that area.
• Must possess reliable transportation and have the ability to travel up to 160 miles to/from Chapel Hill, NC.

Not Applicable.