"Cancer Registry Information Specialist II (Trenton)"

Position Summary:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Cancer Registry Information Specialist II within the Office of the Director/Cancer Epidemiology Services/New Jersey State Cancer Registry at the Rutgers Cancer Institute.

The primary purpose of the Cancer Registry Information Specialist II, under the direction of the supervisor, is to audit hospitals and other health care facilities and collect data for cancer case reports. Additionally, the Cancer Registry Information Specialist II conducts cancer data collection, quality control and medical data correction activities for the New Jersey State Cancer Registry in accordance with overall Cancer Registry Program goals; does related duties as required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reviews and resolves complex medical information problems submitted by health care facilities.
• Performs quality control activities associated with collection, preparation, and editing of cancer data.
• Performs tasks associated with medical data corrections related to demographic and medical information such as assignment of primary site and histology, staging extent of tumor invasion, and proper correction of diagnostic and cancer treatment information.
• Provides training to health care facilities staff in abstracting, coding, case finding, staging of tumors and use of cancer registry software.
• Conducts investigations and makes recommendations to health care facilities staff to correct deficiencies found in cancer reporting as a result of quality control activities.
• Ensures the compilation and timely submission of statistical cancer data by health care facilities on cancer incidence, treatment, and follow-up information.
• Ensures that cancer data is submitted in a format compatible with NJSCR and NAACCR.
• Prepares reports and correspondence of a technical nature as required.
• Obtains detailed health history, medical, diagnostic, treatment, and follow-up information on each cancer case through inquiries into medical records and/or interviews with patients and physicians. Completes questionnaires with accurate data on these items.
• Works closely with health care facility personnel serving as technical expert to rectify consistent problems and errors noted in medical and demographic information, such as surgical intervention, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
• Abstracts and codes medical data for case reports; prepares reports for data entry staff.
• Contacts patients and their physicians to request participation in studies.
• Participates in all aspects of central registry operations in compliance with the National Cancer Institute, SEER, Centers for Disease Control, and the National Program of Cancer Registries.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree plus two (2) years of experience as a tumor registrar in a central cancer registry, hospital, or other health care facility which shall have included responsibility for abstracting cancer cases, quality control, and conducting public health surveys or patient care studies and evaluations.
• Appointees must possess a valid Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) certification issued by the National Cancer Registrar's Association.
• Equivalent education, experience and/or training may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Standing, sitting, walking, talking and hearing.

No special vision requirements.

Lifting up to 25 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Office environment. Moderate noise.

Special Conditions:

This multi-site position requires working in Trenton and New Brunswick, NJ and traveling to various locations throughout the state. Possesses own vehicle or alternative means of transportation from one site to another.