Clinical Specialist

Job Description Summary

As a Clinical Specialist you will have versatile duties, participating in various stages of product development and acting as the interface between clinical customers and the engineering team. You will lead clinical testing activities (both in-house and in hospital), analyse data, document findings, create metrics, and continuously improve our clinical testing methods. Additionally, you will provide analysis of data for medical regulations, train our engineering staff, and demonstrate new products.

GE HealthCare in Finland is home to a world-class centre for engineering and manufacturing state-of-the-art medical devices. These include bedside monitors used in critical care and anesthesia care environments, as well as new-generation wireless and wearable technologies for mobile patients. Our engineering teams need professional clinical voices to ensure our devices are user-friendly, robust, and provide relevant patient risk information during product development. If you have experience as a practicing clinician in areas such as Intensive Care Units, Cardiac Care telemetry or Anesthesia and you want to contribute to the development of cutting-edge medical technology, GE HealthCare offers you that opportunity. We develop technologies that improve patient care worldwide.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute and lead clinical test activities in a simulated laboratory (in-house) and hospital environment.

• Support clinical hospital studies, including protocol development, subject recruitment, data collection, and data transfer

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineers, software developers, usability experts, and marketing

• Train product development teams to improve understanding of clinical and patient expectations (e.g., monitored parameter performance, workflows, hospital environment, patient risk, adverse patient outcome)

• Provide input and author clinical evaluation deliverables for Medical Device Regulations, risk management documents, user manuals, and user training materials

• Provide clinical feedback on device usability, performance, and potential improvements and create reports summarizing findings

• Demonstrate devices to authorized interested parties.

• Analyze product defects for clinical impact.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with significant nursing experience

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing/Healthcare

• Significant clinical experience in care environments where patient monitoring is intensively used (e.g., intensive care, cardiac telemetry, operating room)

• Understanding of the relationship between medical device-related risks and adverse patient outcomes

• Ability to write professional documents in English, such as clinical testing plans

• Excellent communication in English (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

Desired Skills

• Ability to work independently and solve problems 

• Ability to manage multiple project tasks simultaneously

• Creative thinking capability

• Willingness to work in a dynamic and changing environment

• Health technology-oriented mindset

• Knowledge of clinical research/investigations

• Familiarity with GE HealthCare patient monitoring devices

Inclusion and Diversity

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Behaviors

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership – always with unyielding integrity.

Total Rewards

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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