Cancer Registry Information Specialist II; Trenton

Cancer Registry Information Specialist II (Trenton)

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Recruitment/Posting Title Cancer Registry Information Specialist II (Trenton)

Position Status Full Time

Working Hours Standard Hours 37.50

Daily Work Shift

Work Arrangement:
This position requires a fully on-site work arrangement.

Union Description HPAE 5094

Payroll Designation People Soft

Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month

Position Pension Eligibility ABP

RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE VISION , MISSION , AND CORE VALUES :

VISION : Through our science, our evidence-based actions, our openness, and our respect for those we serve, we will advance cancer-focused research worldwide and reduce the burden of cancer in our catchment area. By engaging with and empowering our exceptionally diverse populations, and addressing their questions and fears, we will engender hope for cancer patients and their families and play a critical role in strengthening the fabric of our communities by gaining and protecting their trust and providing access to the outstanding oncology care each person deserves.

MISSION : Our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery focused on understanding cancer, innovating cancer treatment, and improving cancer prevention; to provide outstanding, novel, and compassionate patient care; to provide evidence-based and culturally informed education to physicians, nurses, researchers, staff, and the community; and to achieve cancer health equity in our state through outreach to and engagement of our extraordinarily diverse communities.

CORE VALUES : Curiosity and Discovery: encouraging an environment of continuous inquiry, creativity, and innovation to generate new knowledge;
Integrity: earning the trust of those we serve and each other through honesty, transparency, accountability, and continuous reflection;

Collaboration:

approaching all opportunities with an understanding that together we are better and can achieve more; promoting and maintaining an environment of teamwork and shared knowledge;
Respect and Caring: consistently demonstrating caring, compassion, and respect through our words and actions;
Perseverance: maintaining an unwavering commitment to our mission; embracing change, overcoming obstacles, and creating and recreating the path to achieve our goals.

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 position, under the direction of the supervisor, is to audit hospitals and other health care facilities and collect data for cancer case reports. Additionally, the specialist 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;

and performs related duties as required.

• 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…