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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
About the role
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 trials
- electronic 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 bonus
- Access 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
