Clinical Data Industrial Placement, UK 2024 Brentford, England
Job description
Posted Date: Sep 4 2023
Roles Available in Location: GSK House (London)
If your interest lies in working with us at GSK house, remember we are moving headquarters the first half of 2024 to the vicinity of Earnshaw
Education required: To apply for this placement, you must be:
Currently studying an Undergraduate Degree in a Life Science degree.
Other requirements: You will have completed a minimum of 2 years of your undergraduate degree but will not have graduated at the start of your placement. You must be enrolled at a UK (United Kingdom) or ROI (Republic of Ireland) university for the duration of your placement.
If you have already graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree and are currently studying a postgraduate Masters, you are not eligible for this programme.
Language requirement: Written and spoken fluency in English
Expected Start date: September 2024
Duration: 1 year (approximately)
Salary: A salary of £23,400 plus a bonus
Application Closing: Wednesday 4th October 2023 (this is the date we anticipate the job will be removed from the website and no longer taking new applications).
Please note these dates are subject to change as we may close this vacancy when we have enough applications. We recommend that you apply and complete all stages of your application as soon as you can, so we can consider your application.
Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.
Our approach to R&D focuses on science related to the prevention and treatment of disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to impact health at scale. Our pipeline currently comprises of more than 60 vaccines and medicines across four core therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology / respiratory and HIV. Find out more: Our approach to R&D
Clinical Data Management is a key role in the management of Phase I-IV clinical studies. We are responsible for delivering high quality data throughout the drug development process across multiple therapy areas. You will work as an Associate Clinical Data Lead working on Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials in one of the following disease areas - Immuno-inflammatory, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Respiratory or Emerging Markets.
During the placement you will gain experience in the following areas:
Clinical trials: By supporting multiple clinical teams and clinical trials. Working alongside the Clinical Data Managers to ensure high quality data is delivered as per regulatory expectations. This could involve working with the data collected on a clinical trial (demography data, disease characteristics data, lab data, radiology data, safety and efficacy data) and ensuring the data is collected correctly by interrogating the data using computerised checks or manually reviewing the data using various systems.
Data Management: You will learn the role of data management in clinical trials and the various activities that need to be performed to ensure that data is acquired and validated effectively so that it meets the required quality and privacy standards.
Clinical trial Systems: You will work with variety of colleagues who work in clinical trials both in the UK and globally e.g. scientists, operations, safety, monitoring, working with vendors (e.g. lab vendors, scan vendors), site staff, clinicians and will use a variety of different databases and systems.
Disease area knowledge: You will be working in one of the 5 disease areas. You will need to understand the scientific protocols for each of the trial that you support (a clinical protocol contains the objectives, science behind the trial, methods etc. of the clinical trial).
Team working: You will have the opportunity to join various groups and committees at GSK which organise events, charity days and work with science in schools. This provides opportunities to develop a series of skills including organisation, team work and expose you to more people working in different departments of the company.
Pharmaceutical industry: We want the student to gain a broad understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, so they will be able to join other students on day trips to other local GSK sites and business units to understand the functions performed there.
You may be involved in:
Set up, management and close out of clinical trialselectronic clinical report form development
electronic data capture system and device User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
data validation and query management
data management document development
vendor selection
budget management
Assisting with key clinical documentation
Working with external vendors
What do we offer you?
A salary of £23,400 plus a bonusAccess to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs.
On-the-job experience, training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching and mentoring
A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee
Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students
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Let’s do this!
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
Completion of your Full Application: Sunday 8th October 2023 (this is the anticipated date you will need to complete stages 1 to 3 below).
Proposed Assessment / Interview Dates: from 8th November 2023
We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so we recommend that you apply as soon as you can so your application can be considered.
This opportunity has the following recruitment stages you must successfully pass to be offered a placement year with GSK for 2024:
Eligibility Form
World of GSK Online Assessment
Written Assessment
Virtual Assessment Centre or Virtual Interview
You’ll find hints, tips and guidance on our recruitment process on our website here
You can learn more about GSK and our careers here.
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We’re 100% open to ALL people
We’re 100% open to all talent – whatever your gender, marital status, religion, age, colour, race, sexual orientation, nationality, learning difference or disability. We want to recruit the right people for GSK from the widest possible backgrounds, so we can better serve the diversity of our patients and also because it’s the right thing to do.
You can learn more about Inclusion and diversity at GSK here.
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GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
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