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Clinical Trial Assistant

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What does a Clinical Trial Assistant do?

As a Clinical Trial Assistant (CTA) you hold an essential position within a clinical operations team. This might be at a pharmaceutical company, a clinical research organisation or a clinical research unit in a university hospital. The CTA is responsible for supporting clinical drug research and development tasks. You work closely with Clinical Research Associates (CRA), who monitor the progress of the study, and Clinical Project Managers (CPM). You may also work with research nurses, researchers and doctors in hospitals.

You have an important task in study start-up, digital sending, tracing and administration as well as saving essential documents (e.g. case report forms, CVs, study protocols, investigator brochures, informed consent forms and study supplies), and filing important records related to side effects.

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What responsibilities can you expect as a Clinical Trial Assistant?

Clinical Trial Assistant roles and responsibilities cover a range of tasks in support of a clinical study. These can include:

  • collecting, registering and archiving information and documents in accordance with the applicable good clinical practice guidelines for clinical studies;
  • preparing investigator site files, trial master files (TMF) and electronic trial master files (eTMF) for the initiation of participating centres in clinical studies;
  • identifying needs, bottlenecks and deviations within your own study team;
  • participating in projects or initiatives on request, or on your own initiative;
  • taking on department-wide tasks to contribute to the optimisation of processes within the department;
  • maintaining the complete documentation for the studies assigned;
  • ensuring complete and correct study administration in accordance with the standard operating procedures and the ICH-GCP guidelines;
  • submission of clinical trial documents for review and approval by the Ethics Committee.

A CTA job description may describe the position as a ‘Global Clinical Trial Assistant’ or ‘Clinical Trial Assistant Remote’, which will add other roles and responsibilities relevant to the more specialist nature or circumstances of these roles.

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What education and skills do you need as a Clinical Trial Assistant?

As a Clinical Trial Assistant, you hold different responsibilities related to your academic background. Here is a summary of education and skills requirements that a vacancy may mention, as a general guide:

  • completed medical, pharmaceutical or administrative education at MBO level, or a higher level (bachelor or master) in Life Sciences;
  • excellent computer skills;
  • excellent organisational skills;
  • knowledge of medical terminology;
  • knowledge of GCP;
  • good communication skills in Dutch and English.

You may progress to a Senior Clinical Trial Assistant. However, if you want to advance to a CRA, for example, then you need to have a bachelor’s or master’s background.

What salary can you expect as a Clinical Trial Assistant?

Clinical Trial Assistant jobs in the Netherlands usually offer a startsalary ranging from € 30.000,- to € 45.000,- a year depending on your qualifications, skills and experience. There may be additional benefits depending on the contract, and whether you are remote working and/or need to travel.

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