Clinical Research Coordinator I- Equitable Access to Comprehensive Healthcare Program

This Clinical Research Coordinator is a full-time staff member in the Mount Sinai Respectful & Equitable Access to Comprehensive Healthcare (REACH) Program in the Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 

The REACH Program is a primary-care clinic for people who use drugs (PWUD) at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Using a multidisciplinary team model, REACH provides harm reduction-focused primary care, medications for opioid and alcohol use disorder, and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) testing and treatment. The clinical team is committed to harm reduction and trauma-informed approaches to patient care that acknowledge systemic racial injustice and provide respectful, compassionate, and equitable care for all patients. The REACH Program also has a clinic at VOCAL-NY, a syringe service program in Brooklyn, to provide low-threshold medical care including HCV testing and treatment to people who inject drugs. 

The Clinical Research Coordinator’s role is to provide education and support to REACH Program clients at the VOCAL-NY clinic, provide hepatitis C rapid testing (including pre- and post-test counseling), and facilitate appointments in the VOCAL clinic for primary care and HCV care and treatment. The Clinical Research Coordinator is also responsible for data and programmatic reporting to grant funding agencies. 

• Coordinate new clinic referrals
• Provide education to (potential) patients about hepatitis C screening, infection, and treatment
• Coordinate scheduling of appointments for patients
• Document patient encounters
• Track patient contacts
• Assess patient barriers to accessing care and treatment
• Conduct hepatitis C rapid tests
• Enter programmatic data into AIDS Institute Reporting System (AIRS) data base
• Prepare monthly reports to grant funding agency
• Other duties as assigned

 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Science or closely related field.
• 1-2 years of research experience
• B-lingual Spanish preferred

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-vent