Cancer Registrar

**Req ID**:182010**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Provincial** Zone, **Home Work Site FT (5 days/week)**
**Department**:CANC Cancer Care Registry & Analytics**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **2** position(s)**
**Status: NSGEU** **Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:28-Jun-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The Cancer Registrar (CR) is a staging & classification specialist providing cancer-specific health care data for the Province of Nova Scotia. This data resides in the provincial Cancer Registry Information System (CRIS).
The CR combines, reviews, analyses, and interprets a wide range of data types from various reports (e.g. radiology/laboratory, physician consult records, etc.), and from multiple sources (e.g. pathology reports, clinical information systems, death records etc.) to classify and stage the primary tumour and create standardized datasets for cancer cases diagnosed and managed in Nova Scotia. The purpose of this job is to provide timely, complete and accurate cancer-specific health care data to support cancer surveillance activities (incidence, stage, mortality and survival data) to the NSHA Cancer Care Program (NSHA CCP). The CR accomplishes this through research, abstraction, analysis and interpretation of complex medical information to determine the appropriate morphology and topography codes, the stage at diagnosis for all cancer diagnosed for Nova Scotia residents and collect pertinent information for all patients in CRIS. These data are published in provincial, national and international publications and support cancer surveillance, epidemiological research, quality control initiatives, cancer control management and system performance, health services planning and management decisions.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Graduate of a Health Information Management Program plus active certification
- Two years experience working in Cancer Registry
- Oncology Data Specialist designation (ODS)
- If no applicants demonstrate two years of experience in Cancer Registry and ODS certification; consideration may be given to applicants who have completed a Health Information Management program plus active certification
- Knowledge of legislation surrounding health information (e.g. Nova Scotia Personal Health Information Act)
- Knowledge of computerized clinical health systems and how to retrieve health information
- Experience with Microsoft suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Knowledge of ICD-O-3 Classification System
- Knowledge of ICD-10 CA/CCI Classification Systems
- Competency in using a variety of Nova Scotia based Health Care Information Systems (e.g. SHARE, Millennium, Meditech, One-Content, XIMG, OPIS)
- Excellent analytic, time management and decision making skills
- Competencies in other languages an asset; French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Permanent Full-time Position; 75 hours bi-weekly

**Compensation and Incentives**:
Cancer Registrar II

$31.59 - $34.61 Hourly

Cancer Registrar I

$28.86 - $30.95 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

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