Cancer Registrar II Cancer Care Program

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 Nova Scotia Health Cancer Care Program (NSH 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.

The CR must know understand and apply complex rule sets for multiple primary histology stage assignment (AJCC 8th Edition) and International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-3) classification. The CR collects analyzes and interprets health data throughout the patients life span starting with diagnosis. The CR must ensure periodic review of all related cancer resource material (cytology pathology autopsy reports admission/separation data from the provincial hospital abstracting system vital statistics death listings hospital and clinic charts) to update health status treatment activity and outcomes at defined intervals.

Home site Location and Constituent Union will be determined based on the successful candidate once identified.

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

• Graduate of a Health Information Management Program plus certification
• Two years experience working in Cancer Care
• CTR designation
• If no applicants demonstrate two years of experience in Cancer Care and CTR certification; consideration may be given to applicants who have completed a Health Information Management program plus certification. If successful they will be placed on the Cancer Registrar I scale.
• 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 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.

• Permanent full-time position; 75 hours biweekly
• Location will be determined based on the Successful Candidate

Cancer Registrar II
$32.22 - $35.30 hourly

Cancer Registrar I

$29.44 - 31.57 hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health dental travel long-term disability and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.