Clinical Scientist - Clinical Surveillance & Training (Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to draft protocol review, scale selection, and may contribute to full protocol design and development, offering clinical expertise and partnering with customers on design and specific text.
• Participates in the development of eligibility review, endpoint review, rater qualification, training, and certification plans, documents, reports, etc.
• Contributes to scales management and translations deliverables.
• Reviews case report forms and electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) pages to ensure consistency between the database and original scale, and provides feedback to team.
• Works with vendors and/or Company staff involved in training regarding the use of clinical scales, diagnostic instruments, or provision of (eCOA) technology.
• Provides internal Syneos Health and site staff training on therapeutic indications, scale administration, and scale scoring.
• Performs clinical and statistical analysis of rating scale, and/or endpoint data.
• Works with Investigators and their staff in order to ensure that they understand the specifics of the protocol, particularly surrounding entry criteria, diagnostic scales, and clinical scales.
• In collaboration with Medical Directors, reviews screening data and leads case reviews to determine whether subjects are appropriate for entry into a trial.
• Provides professional, collaborative, and scientific feedback to investigators.
• Continuously improves clinical and scientific expertise through research and publication. Maintains familiarity with current relevant literature.
• Provides scientific and clinical expertise to Sponsors, study teams, and the Company. May serve as indication subject matter expert.
• May support business development activities by providing scientific proposal text, protocol considerations and/or slides. May participate in bid defense meetings.

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, health benefits to include medical, dental and vision, company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Salary Range: $97,300.00 - $170,300.00. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

Provides scientific oversight and clinical guidance for projects within the Clinical Surveillance & Training (CST) department. Works with assigned team to develop and deliver eligibility review, end point review, rater training, scales management and translation, and other services as needed under the supervision of a team member. Applies advanced clinical and trial methodology expertise to help ensure quality of subject selection and reliability/validity of outcome data in assigned clinical trials, advancing evidence-based science with every touchpoint/service.

Plays an integral role in the implementation of CST programs, ensuring timely delivery of services and advancing evidence-based scientific activities within the team. May provide both internal and external therapeutic training and assessment instrument training as needed and as indication expertise applies. May interact with senior management, customers, and project teams to ensure scientific integrity and data quality in clinical trials. Provides scientific input as needed within the company and may contribute to business development activities. Mentors and trains other CST employees. May have direct line management and mentoring responsibilities.