This role supports cancer registry operations by reviewing, validating, and maintaining registry data to ensure accuracy and support regulatory, accreditation, operational, and research needs. The position also contributes to compliance through cancer conference activities (if applicable) and reporting.
Location and Schedule
- Location: Pleasanton, CA (onsite)
- Primary location: California, Pleasanton, Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building B
- Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Hours per week: 40
- Shift: Day
- Working hours: 08:30 AM to 05:00 PM
- Job schedule: Full-time
- Job type: Standard
- Employee status: Regular
- Employee group/union affiliation: NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee
- Job level: Individual Contributor
- Job category: Research
- Department: Oakland Reg - 2000 Broadway - RI Medical Records_Recharge - 0201
- Travel: No
Compensation
- Salary: USD 88,700 - 114,730 per yearly
Core Responsibilities
- Promotes learning by sharing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional and external stakeholders and customers.
- Listens to performance feedback and provides actionable feedback to others and to managers.
- Pursues self-development by creating and executing plans to leverage strengths and address weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations.
- Adapts to change by learning from challenges and feedback, demonstrating flexibility, and helping others adjust to new tasks and processes.
- Facilitates team collaboration to support business outcomes.
- Completes assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying subject-area expertise and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to follow all procedures and policies.
- Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to reach effective business decisions by recommending solutions, solving complex problems, escalating high-priority issues or risks as appropriate, and monitoring progress and results.
- Supports work plan development to meet business priorities and deadlines, including identifying resources needed to complete priorities.
- Identifies improvement opportunities across teams, speaks up on opportunities, uses influence to guide others, and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
Cancer Registry Data and Quality Support
- Facilitates cancer registry data collection, maintenance, and accuracy by independently reviewing moderately complex cancer registry data in accordance with regulatory and/or accreditation guidelines.
- Evaluates cancer registry data elements based on regulatory and/or accreditation guidelines.
- Validates and processes follow-up according to established guidelines.
- Determines, processes, and evaluates recurrence data.
- Maintains quality of work by reviewing quality assurance data and procedures for regulatory and/or accreditation compliance.
- Analyzes data abstraction according to regulatory and/or accreditation quality standards and operational needs.
- Processes and/or evaluates regulatory compliance audits and analyzes outcomes data according to regulatory and/or accreditation standards.
Regulatory Compliance, Accreditation, and Reporting
- Facilitates regulatory compliance and accreditation by coordinating and/or attending Cancer Conference and/or cancer program activities (if applicable).
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of cancer registry best practices and regulatory and/or accreditation standards by attending education sponsored by local, state, and national cancer registrar associations to meet continuing education requirements.
- Analyzes compliance with other registry regulatory and/or accreditation standards.
- Supports report generation and data analysis by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data to generate reports.
- Analyzes, interprets, and provides cancer registry data to support regulatory, accreditation, operational, and research needs.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Associates degree
- Experience: Associates degree AND minimum five (5) years of experience in Cancer Registry or a directly related field OR minimum six (6) years of experience in Cancer Registry or a directly related field.
- Special requirement: Oncology Data Specialist required at hire.
Experience / Preferred Qualifications
- Commission on Cancer (CoC) Accredited Cancer Program: Two (2) years of experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Core: Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management, Attention to Detail, Business Knowledge, Communication, Critical Thinking, Cross-Group Collaboration, Decision Making, Dependability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support, Drives Results, Facilitation Skills, Health Care Industry, Influencing Others, Integrity, Learning Agility, Organizational Savvy, Problem Solving, Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall, Teamwork, Topic-Specific Communication.
Functional: Applied Data Analysis, Autonomy, Cancer Registry Standardized Practices, Compliance Management, Computer Literacy, Data Entry, Data Mining, Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Health Care Outcome Data, Health Information Systems, Health Records, Maintain Files and Records, Medical Terminology, Trend Analysis.
