Trauma Research Coordinator

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

As our Trauma Services Coordinator, you will strategically lead and manage the comprehensive Trauma Services program, ensuring optimal patient outcomes, continuous quality improvement, and adherence to all trauma center designation requirements.

Every day you will oversee trauma operations, clinical care coordination, and administrative functions across departments. You will manage trauma data for performance improvement, ensure compliance with ACS verification and regulations, and develop trauma policies.

To be successful in this role, you will possess extensive clinical trauma experience and leadership within a designated trauma center. You will demonstrate a deep understanding of trauma systems, ACS verification, and quality improvement methodologies. Exceptional communication, analytical, and leadership skills to coordinate complex programs and influence clinical teams are essential.

• Facilitates research activities in partnership with the Trauma Medical Director and Research Administration colleagues leveraging clinical experiences in related specialty area. Is familiar with resources available in the institution and locally.
• Completes grant, journal, and publication writing duties and responsibilities as assigned. Maintain standards of publication and authorship.
• Serves as the primary liaison for internal and external project sponsors, routinely informing key stakeholders of project plans, status updates, milestones (including subject enrollment metrics, timely data collection and submission and related contracted and/or grant goals) through regular reporting and coordinated discussions.
• Promotes and adheres to responsible conduct of research (scientific ethics) policies. Maintain a professional attitude with patients, visitors and other hospital personnel while assuring confidentiality of patient information and other hospital information.
• Conceive, plan and conduct research for trauma-related grant opportunities and funding using advanced search techniques. Possess proficiency in searching funding sources through on-line databases and printed resource material.
• Assist the members of the Division of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care in the development of documents and proposals in response to Requests for Proposals from private foundations and governmental funding sources. Includes preparation of the RFP.

Required

• Master's Degree
• Experience with statistical analysis

Preferred

• Doctorate of Science