Clinical Scientist - Clinical Surveillance & Training; Clinical Psychologist​/Neuropsychologist

Overview

Clinical Scientist - Clinical Surveillance & Training (Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist - Must Have)

Updated: June 10, 2026
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Job : -OTHLOC-1510-2DR

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team applies years of experience and deep expertise to understand customer needs and shape solutions.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with problem solvers to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and for those in need.

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Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose — Driven to Deliver — which captures the passion of our colleagues to shape solutions that impact lives.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. We bring smart colleagues from around the world to shape the future of healthcare and drive patient progress.

Clinical Scientist

Join our Clinical Surveillance & Training (CST) team as a Clinical Scientist, where you will play a critical role in ensuring endpoint quality, data integrity, and trial success across global clinical programs. This is a highly visible, impact-driven role at the intersection of science and clinical operations.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead Rater Training Excellence: Design and deliver scientifically grounded rater training programs to ensure consistent, high-quality endpoint assessment and reduce variability across sites.
• Drive Patient Eligibility Quality: Perform comprehensive eligibility reviews, providing a second level of scientific oversight to confirm appropriate patient selection and minimize protocol deviations and safety risks.
• Deliver Data-Driven Insights: Analyze clinical and endpoint data to identify trends, variability, and potential risks—translating findings into actionable insights that improve study execution.
• Shape Protocol Strategy: Partner with sponsors and study teams to review protocols and provide expert guidance on endpoint strategy, scale selection, and study design feasibility.
• Act as a Scientific Leader: Collaborate cross-functionally with clinical operations, medical, and sponsor teams to proactively identify risks and deliver solutions that protect study integrity.

• Directly impacts data reliability, regulatory confidence, and trial outcomes
• Enables smarter, faster decision-making through scientific insight and analytics
• Delivers high-quality, successful clinical trials

• Doctoral level degree relevant to therapeutic area (e.g., for CNS: Clinical Psychology PhD or PsyD or Psychiatry MD).
• Moderate to extensive clinical experience with patients in relevant therapeutic areas.
• Knowledge of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric assessments, including patient-reported outcome measures, inferential biostatistics, and medical terminology.
• Experience with clinical research or pharmaceutical industry.
• Excellent planning/organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade.
• Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting in professional settings.
• Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 20%).

At Syneos Health, we provide an environment for our people to thrive, develop and advance. Benefits may include a company car or car allowance, health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), 401k with company match, eligibility to participate in an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Paid sick time eligibility varies by location due to regulatory requirements. Syneos complies with applicable paid sick time requirements.

Salary Range: $97,300.00 - $

The base salary range represents the anticipated range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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