Job Summary

The Principal Clinician IRev will review, score, and provide feedback to site raters regarding the administration of standardized structured and semi-structured diagnostic and severity assessments.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate a patients current clinical condition and symptom severity.
• Perform diagnostic assessments.
• May also review, score, and provide feedback to site raters regarding the administration of standardized structured and semi-structured diagnostic and severity assessments as needed.
• Conduct training for site raters.
• Provide scoring for site assessments and review site scores.
• Review site assessments for quality assurance.
• Submit accurate review of site data utilizing standardized conventions.
• Utilize technology required to review and score site assessments.
• Work with the Site Services Team to schedule assessment reviews, submit appropriate review documentation and provide data clarification.
• Follow Sponsor (protocol-specific) requirements and applicable Good Clinical Practices and internal SOPs.
• May participate in Clinical and Team meetings.
• Participate in on-going Clinician scoring exercises and training.
• May assume primary responsibility for major research and other projects.
• May participate in staff meetings.
• Responsible for keeping up to date with departmental and company communications to ensure one follows current policies, scale conventions, study procedures, and other pertinent information. 

Education / Qualifications

• Clinicians must have a minimum of a Masters degree conferred by a clinically-focused program in a mental health discipline such as Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, or Psychiatric Nursing.  
• Neurologists must have a board certification in Neurology and solid experience with the targeted patient population and respective standardized assessment tools (scales). 

Experience / Skills

• Fluent in the study language at a native level.

• Minimum of 2 years clinical experience diagnosing and/or treating patients with psychiatric disorders, neurocognition disorders, and/or other study relevant indications.

• 2 or more years administering study relevant standardized assessment tools

• Ability to conduct reviews of rater severity and/or diagnostic sessions, providing feedback for quality control purposes.

• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

• Knowledge of GCP guidelines.

• Strong communication skills, oral and written.

• Intermediate or advanced proficiency in English preferred.