KEMRI Clinical Officer Jobs in Kenya

KEMRI Clinical Officer Jobs in Kenya

The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme conducts high quality clinical studies on non-communicable diseases including the genetic susceptibility to these conditions.

The NeuroGAP study is a multi-site international collaboration with data collection in up to 4 hospitals on the Kenyan coast. The study aims to collect clinical and genetic data that will help understand the genetic architecture of psychotic disorders in Kenya and other countries in Africa.

The study will be comparing the genetic composition of people with psychotic disorders versus those without these conditions visiting the four hospitals.

In each hospital, NeuroGAP study will have a team comprising of a clinician/nurse, and field assistants, working closely with the hospital staff, the project coordinator and the principal investigators of the study.

The clinician will have a high level of responsibility for ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures and ethical regulations of the study, while ensuring that the collection of phenotype and biological samples runs smoothly.

The post holder will need to work unsupervised most of the times, when the project coordinators and principal investigators are away in other hospitals.

The post requires focus and attention to detail, and involves a high level of communication with the hospital staff and other NeuroGAP study team members.

Although the clinician will be assisted by a fieldworker to manage the flow and recruitment of the study participants, s/he is expected to provide leadership in the process.

Additionally, the clinician will take responsibility for the accurate data capture, and safe transportation of biological samples to the project coordinator for storage.

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