Junior Project Coordinator

The Junior Project Coordinator will primarily support a study evaluating emergency department (ED) peer support workers to support patients with substance use, managed through the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine. The incumbent will oversee all activities related to the planning, coordination, management, and timely completion of tasks related to the ED peer support worker study and evaluation, including patient and health care provider surveys, sharing circles, and focus groups, and assistance with analysis of process metrics and linked patient outcome data.

Other responsibilities include implementing study protocols, monitoring study processes, and developing systematic methods for data collection. The Junior Project Coordinator will monitor study progress, produce reports, assist with financial management for research accounts, and ensure that standard operating procedures are followed to ensure quality control for the study.

Organizational Status

The vision of the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine is to be a provincially integrated Department committed to clinical and academic leadership in the creation and exchange of knowledge to promote excellence in emergency care. Our 600+ faculty members across the province have had an impressive record of research and discovery. Our research and innovation initiatives include 14 successful programs related to prevention of emergencies, improving clinical care, and system improvements.

Our Emergency Medicine Royal College residency training program, distributed across 4 program sites, is the largest in the country. The Department of Emergency Medicine has also played a leadership role in the development and implementation of an Emergency Medicine Network across the province, designed to integrate and translate knowledge to support exceptional emergency care. It provides a rapid and effective avenue to exchange knowledge and experiences to support 1400 practitioners in 108 sites across the province.

The research program has earned Health Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Canada Research Chair funding and is of interest to numerous provincial and national stakeholders. Substance and opioid use research is one of the key strategic initiatives of the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine. The research will focus on developing innovations to improve emergency department screening for patients with substance and opioid use disorders, identification of risk factors among these patients (including patterns and frequency of visits), treatment of overdose (e.g., naloxone and resuscitation approaches), and optimizing management and supports for emergency department patients at risk for overdose, including peer support workers and provision of buprenorphine/naloxone (standard dosing and microdosing).

This position reports directly to the Principal Investigator (PI), but the nature of the work requires independent action. The incumbent has frequent interaction and collaboration with other research team members and with external collaborators including policy makers, data custodians, patient advocates, people with lived experience with substance use, medical students, residents and healthcare professionals both within and outside the Department of Emergency Medicine to plan and conduct research, manage data, and analyze results.

Work Performed

Research Office Duties

• Oversees all activities related to the ED peer support worker study, including planning, coordination, management, and timely completion of current and future study tasks.

• Develops orientation presentations and training resources; including written materials such as task lists and FAQs, as well as written and verbal presentations, for the ED peer support worker study and other studies as needed. These resources focus on orienting staff to study procedures, expectations, and requirements.

• Onboards, trains and supervises research assistants for the ED peer support worker study.

• Monitors studies’ progress to ensure that deadlines are met (including reporting requirements), milestones achieved, and research is conducted in compliance with study procedures.

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