Description
One of Volt's leading, global Pharmaceutical clients is currently seeking two Drug Safety Officers to come and work with them for an initial period of 6 months. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and processing adverse drug reactions on a Pan-European scale, and will be working with cases directly from company sites and hospitals (often hand written). As such an excellent grasp of English and strong communication skills are required, as well as an ability to infer technical/medical notes.
Duties:
- Processing, follow-up and expedited reporting of spontaneous case reports of adverse events and pregnancies.
- Answering telephone inquiries from healthcare professionals relating to adverse event case reports. Input of data to in-house safety database.
- Administrative activities relating to case processing, for self and on behalf of Clinical Safety Group.
- Assistance with International Spontaneous Reports Group activities as required and authorized by line manager.
- Researching new raw data AE terms, mapping of raw data AE terms to dictionary codes and coding conventions
The successful candidate:
- Educated to at least BSc level in a Life Science field, or a qualified Nurse or Pharmacist
- Either a Bright Graduate or some prior experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, ideally within Pharmacovigilance.