Cancer Registrar - Office of Quality Excellence - Cancer Registry

UNC REX Healthcare; Chapel Hill (NC); Remote; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to enhancing community health and well-being. This role focuses on collecting and managing vital data for cancer and bone marrow transplant patients, ensuring compliance with state regulations. As a key member of the Cancer Registry team, you will engage in data coding, quality control, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. This position offers a chance to make a significant impact in patient care while working remotely. If you're passionate about data management and patient advocacy, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• No formal education required, but certification and experience in cancer registry preferred.
• Minimum 6 months experience in a Commission on Cancer accredited facility.

Responsibilities

• Codes and summarizes patient data according to complex rules.
• Conducts quality control and creates case abstracts for cancer patients.
• Serves as a liaison within industry and assists with collaborative studies.

Skills

Data Analysis

Quality Control

Research Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR)

Job description

Description

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

Summary:
This position collects extensive data on all new cancer and/or bone marrow transplant patients seen at UNC Hospitals, as required by state law and according to regulations established by various state and national registries.

Responsibilities:

1. Codes, summarizes, sequences, and stages extracted information according to extensive and complex rules. Performs necessary research, analysis, interpretation, and decision-making to best abstract, stage or sequence information.
2. Composes explanatory comments to supplement codes. Conceptualizes the case as a whole and determines what types of supplementary information would augment the data provided by the codes.
3. Conducts quality control activities such as auditing records and conducting data review meetings. Participates with multidisciplinary teams in creating, organizing, and providing documentation of established procedures necessary for accreditation.
4. Creates case abstracts for cancer patients, extracting data items from the various medical records.
5. Follows up on each case abstracted for the life of the patient. Ensures that follow-up information is collected for each case annually. Extracts the required information from in-house or external sources. May communicate through written correspondence or telephone to obtain needed data.
6. Responds to requests for information. Creates queries to extrapolate data and completes ad hoc and routinized reports of data.
7. Serves as a liaison within industry and regional groups. Assists with collaborative studies.

Other Information

Education Requirements:
● None required as long as other position qualifications are met.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:
● Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR).

Professional Experience Requirements:
● Minimum of 6 months experience as ODS-C in a Commission on Cancer (COC) accredited facility or 1-year at a non-CoC accredited facility (preferably a hospital or central cancer registry) required.
● Minimum of 3 years experience as ODS-C in a Commission on Cancer (COC) accredited facility preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: OQE - Cancer Registry

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $24.73 - $35.56 per hour (Hiring Range).

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity.

Work Assignment Type: Remote

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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