Clinical Specialist Job Description
Clinical specialist
provides hands on support for the submission and tracking of clinical trial applications including national, VHP and applications submitted under the emerging clinical trial Regulations.
Clinical Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective clinical specialist job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included clinical specialist job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Document phone calls and follow compliance procedures to educate members each month on their medication before it is dispensed
Perform PICC lines in the hospital
Oversee per diem PICC RNs
Sit on leadership committees and councils
Make outbound calls (75% of the day) to members and providers
Take inbound calls (25% of the day) from patients
Equipment setup/instruction tasks including intake info from referrals, verify orders in chart, verify insurance, equipment setup (apnea monitor BIPAP/CPAP, enteral suction, oxygen therapy, phototherapy, walking aids, wheelchairs, bathroom aides, and breast pumps)
Documentation of services
Consignment tasks
Build & maintain relationships with key clinical customers across Alternate Site for Elastomerics & other identified products/projects providing clinical expertise
Clinical Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Clinical Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CDN, CNN, PCT, FA, CPR, BLS, LA, ACLS, URAC, CNS
Education for Clinical Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the clinical specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Nursing, Education, Associates, Technical, Surgery, Radiology, Dentistry, Science, Life Sciences, Business
Skills for Clinical Specialist
Desired skills for clinical specialist include:
Medical terminology and the medical device industry
Clinical trial protocols
Our products/therapies and develop an extensive understanding of all their applications
Compliance toward the regulations of world-wide regulatory bodies to meet corporate and departmental objectives
Clinical Department standard operating procedures
Computer applications
Procedures
Grammar
Spelling
Vocabulary and of generally accepted office practices
Desired experience for clinical specialist includes:
Clinical skill and knowledge (ex
Full driving licence and passport required
Domestic (within country) and some potential international travel required (10%)
Provide training & education to health care professionals and hospital personnel
Assist with the logistical requirements of the business
A background in Nursing, Physiotherapy, Allied Health or other related discipline
Clinical Specialist Examples
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Clinical Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a clinical specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for clinical specialist
- Facilitate the development of consensus guidelines relating to the use of Elastomerics in Alternate Site settings (i.e., long term care, home care) with established KOLs
- Conduct clinical needs assessments, analyze data, develop and present recommendations to customers, implement and evaluate product conversions and support follow up activities with measureable outcomes
- Identify & communicate customer insights toward the development of marketing programs and P5 strategic plans
- Provide clinical customer support to orthodontists and general dentists in the areas of case evaluation, ClinCheck support clinical troubleshooting, mid-course correction and case refinement
- Liaison with Costa Rica with regards to ClinCheck quality issues
- Assist with review of power point presentations, digital images and scans for marketing and/or sales materials clinical education materials
- Investigation and Analysis of Clinical-related customer inquiries, complaints and adverse events
- Ensure timely resolution to customer contact issue whether in-bound or out-bound
- Participate in Wed morning weekly calls or any other clinical update calls as needed
- Performs QA of policy reviews, logic revisions, and research requests performed by others to ensure accuracy
Qualifications for clinical specialist
- A passion for the medical devices and healthcare industry, with outstanding communication skills and the ability to impart technical information
- Confidence in your ability to work effectively in the operating theatre, demonstrating a high level of clinical expertise whilst being extremely effective at imparting information of a highly technical nature
- Experience in the Medical Devices industry &/or Orthopaedics would be advantageous
- A degree in Respiration Therapy or a combination of Nursing and RT is required
- A high degree of interpersonal skills
- High energy level and demonstrated desire and ability to participate and motivate others in team efforts
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of clinical specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for clinical specialist
- Providing clinical customer support to orthodontists and general dentists in the areas of case evaluation, ClinCheck support clinical troubleshooting primarily for Brazilian doctors
- Follow up/ Schedule study subjects
- Ensure proper collection, processing, shipment of specimens, and documentation
- Audit documents and pertinent files and prepare for storage
- Designs learning solutions
- Demonstrates advanced level of technical/scientific discipline applicable to role, and advanced working level understanding of technical aspects of disciplines of key associated disciplines, such as R&D, Quality, Business, Project Management
- Creates coherent, professional documentation and correspondence of moderate complexity
- Independently develops and prepares training materials consistent with role with technical and stylistic input from more senior associates
- Recognizes potential problems and takes preventive steps
- Identifies possible process improvement opportunities in own area of responsibility and works to implement them
Qualifications for clinical specialist
- Must be able and willing to travel within the country and to be on-call/standby and be activated during/ after hours and weekends if/when required
- Degree in biomedical engineering, Biology, Life Sciences or related field
- 3+ years Experience in a cath lab, in biomedical engineering, in a hospital/clinic or medical sales
- Proficiency in Spanish & English required (reading, writing and speaking)
- American Visa and Passport
- Desired experience in with companies in the medical industry or similar regulated industry preferred
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of clinical specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for clinical specialist
- Manages most activities without supervision
- Asserts own ideas and persuades others
- Contributes to short term planning and decisions for groups and/or projects
- Mentors others, including peers in other functions
- Independently estimates resources required
- Carries out tasks and activities that are defined by Manager and in local business/operating plans
- Willingness to travel approximately 10% (domestic and international)
- Operationalizes assessment initiatives through the assigned medical staff departments, PI teams, and/or service lines in order to evaluate effectiveness and potential opportunities for improvement
- Participates and/or coordinates the assigned hospital committees in an Organizational manner
- Collects/analyzes and maintains timely, accurate and reliable data for all customers, including assigned teams reflective of clinical systems and processes delivered
Qualifications for clinical specialist
- Assesses on a continuous basis, services, patient outcomes, quality control, customer satisfaction, staffing needs and operational effectiveness to ensure optimal care and delivery
- Ensures that internal controls are sufficient to provide for accurate complete and compliant programs and processes
- Identifies need for changes in standards, programs and services and develops recommendations for consideration by the Supervisor
- Able to flourish in young international company experiencing significant growth
- Bachelors Degree (or higher) in Nursing/BSN (strongly preferred) or Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Management (RHIA)
- Professional certification (RHIA, RHIT, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P or CCS-P) preferred or willingness to attend coding courses sponsored by the Company
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Our company is looking for a clinical specialist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for clinical specialist
- Develops, collects, analyzes, and maintains data, files, reports, and other information concerning critical care issues, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities, either manually or within a database management system
- Provide clinical/technical support during sales process by demonstrating full range of product features including potential uses, product capabilities and benefits to customers as needed
- Provide troubleshooting on issues that arise related to end-user’s technical/clinical skills, experiment design and results of clinical results on daily practice
- Participate in product development teams by becoming involved in product/marketing testing
- Providing clinical customer support to orthodontists and general dentists in the areas of case evaluation, ClinCheck support clinical troubleshooting primarily for Italian doctors
- Working cross-functionally with Product Development, Regulatory Affairs, Product Management, Launch Team and Marketing on pipeline and lifecycle projects
- Reviewing input for the Clinical Evaluation Report (technical file documents, marketing claims, post-market surveillance data)
- Identifying and screening business and product relevant scientific literature
- Analyzing and interpreting study results and compiling literature search reports for regulatory submissions
- Works with the Division Clinical Specialist Team to identify and promote division goals
Qualifications for clinical specialist
- Bachelors Degree (or higher) in Nursing (BSN)
- Requires a valid RN
- Minimum of 5 years or experience in a clinical setting as a nurse or pharmacist
- Experience in a health plan, PBM, Medicare or State Medicaid with focus on reimbursement and/or claims processing preferred
- Occasional travel required (primarily related to training and quarterly meetings)
- Flexibility to travel outside the US based on business need is preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of clinical specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for clinical specialist
- Coordinates the implementation of division-wide standardization, utilization, integration, and optimization activities in the specialty area(s)
- Develop, execute, and support division-wide tools and resources focused on clinical initiatives
- Provides user support and system maintenance for advanced clinical applications for all division hospitals
- Conducts problem analyses and timely and accurate resolution for complex issues and requests escalated from the division Service Desk or other division or facility service resources regarding advanced clinical applications within their specialty area(s)
- Participates in root cause analysis as trends in issues in specialty area(s) are identified
- Works with facility Senior Clinical Analysts and Division Clinical Specialist Team to provide support for module updates and advanced clinical applications within their specialty area(s)
- Coordinates division-wide testing for advanced clinical applications within their specialty area(s)
- Works with Education Specialist to design and develop base education/training materials in clinical application specialty area(s) to support staff training and continued education
- Provides training to division specialists and facility clinical analysts and super users (train the trainer) on advanced clinical applications
- Works with the Division Clinical Specialist Team to define clinical application reporting standards and works with facilities to implement the standards
Qualifications for clinical specialist
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in internet based research as it relates to codes (CPT, HCPCS, ICD, or NCD)
- Experience in State Medicaid with focus on reimbursement and/or claims processing
- After hours and/or weekend work required where necessary for major deliverables/deadlines (not consistent)
- 3-5+ years clinical research experience and 3+ years successful pharmaceutical/CRO/medical sales experience ideal
- Travel within Johnstown, PA and Harrisburg, PA
- Higher education degree (preferred – in Biomedical Engineering or Medicine)