About the position
Background:
- Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences
- WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives
- In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to Academics
Division: Global Surgery
Main purpose of the job:
- To provide clinical research assistance to the clinical trials team through patient enrolment, consent, data management/ CRF file completion and basic nursing care
Location:
Key performance areas:
- Receive patients referred by clinicians or clinical trial centre for screening
- Check patient files and details and confirm next appointment dates / follow up dates
- Assist with referring patients to designated doctors as and when needed if relevant to study
- Ensure that relevant documentation have been completed i.e. CRFs, Enrollment Logs, Consent forms, Stock forms, delegation logs etc.
- Liaise with Clinical Trial Site and Data Capturer to capture completed CRFs timeously
- Able to respond and correct data queries raised by the global and local data management teams
- Liaising with Clinical staff to ensure trial documents are completed accurately and entirely by following the patient through their clinical course during the trial period
- Assist with consent and enrollment of eligible patients into the study at each site
- Adequately maintain stock take and flow of stock from stores to trial sites ensuring correct use of interventional product in the studies
- Provide office support by assisting with protocol and or ethics submission document preparations
- Be comfortable presenting site initiation presentations for Principle Investigators and their Clinical Teams
- Perform general administration duties such as scanning, photocopying and filing
- Assist the team with ad hoc assignments and duties
Required minimum education and training:
- Diploma in General Nursing (3-years)
Professional Body Registration:
- South African Nursing Council (SANC)
Required minimum work experience:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience with Clinical Trial exposure
Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:
- Manage time effectively to meet high paced work environment needs
- Manage multiple sites at various stages of a trial simultaneously
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks & activities and demonstrate effective self-management
- Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of own work are consistently and accurately maintained
- Take ownership for own career development
- Manage colleagues and client’s expectation and communicate appropriately
- Willing to help others and go the extra mile to meet team targets and objectives
- Manage own disruptive emotions (handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact on the team)
TO APPLY:
- Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration via our website to enable and protect you as a candidate, and to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions
- This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL
- However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful
- Closing date: 16 January 2026
- Note: No CV will be accepted after the closing date
Please note:
- WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto
- AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising and the response handling on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium
- AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position
Desired Skills:
- Clinical Research
- Clinical Trials
- GCP
- SANC
- Parktown
- Certificate
- Nursing Assistant
