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What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
- Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
- Health care spending account
- Premium defined benefit pension plan
- 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
- Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation, and 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
- Career development opportunities
- A collaborative values-based team culture
- Wellness programs
- A hybrid working model
- Participation in Communities of Inclusion
Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.
As an essential member of the Ontario Cancer Registry, operated by Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario), the Cancer Registry Analyst will work to create cancer patient data utilizing healthcare facility-based patient records, electronic synoptic pathology reports and other provincial cancer related data holdings. The primary responsibilities of the Cancer Registry Analyst are to assure that complete and accurate cancer data is generated, collected, analysed, and maintained for all Ontario residents diagnosed with cancer. The Cancer Registry Analyst will work with members of various Ontario Health research and analytic teams and technology services as well as external healthcare providers, health information management leads, privacy officers and information technology contacts in the daily course of their work.
Here is what you will be doing:
The key responsibilities for cancer registry operations support are:
- Retrieve, undertake critical review and amend as necessary, cases of resolved cancer using an electronic editing interface.
- Conduct this work in compliance with internationally established rules and guidelines as set out by World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases- Oncology (ICD-O) and NCI/SEER (National Cancer Institute/Surveillance Epidemiology End Results Solid Tumor Rules), all as coordinated by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) and nationally adopted by the Canadian Council of Cancer Registries (CCCR). The CCCR sets the data standards for surveillance cancer registries that report to the Canadian Cancer Registry administered by Statistics Canada.
- Conduct this work in a timely manner.
- Participate in audits of cancer registry data, and of the user interface.
- Work somewhat independently with supervision following established policies and procedures.
- Demonstrate methodical problem-solving skills and techniques.
The key responsibilities for pathology report coding are:
- Retrieve, review, and classify electronic pathology reports for all OCR reportable diseases, distinguishing between them and non-reportable diagnoses.
- Enter demographics into a manual interface, review and classify paper-based pathology reports as above.
- Complete routine disease classification of reports in a timely manner.
- Perform quality assessments as required or ePath content and format.
- Perform UAT and quality assessment of ePath tools, or their upgrades or enhancements.
- Participate in audits of the reports’ medical content as required for Clinical Services or Surveillance.
- Responsible for following and adhering to corporate and departmental policy/procedures and standards.
The key responsibilities for manual case review are:
- Retrieve, review and amend cases of resolved cancer from the EDW-OCR via a web-based application.
- Perform evaluation of resolved cancer cases based on understanding of North American standards for cancer registration as well as Ontario specific data sources.
- Communicate technical and report related problems to Team Lead or IT support.
- Participate in quality assurance or research activities as required.
- Participate in evaluation of Resolink application as required, including “troubleshooting” and UAT.
- Participate in ad hoc case review in support of research studies and conduct specialized data collection.
The key responsibilities for patient linkage are:
- Review of deterministic linkage results for the EDW.
- Resolution of grey area record pairs for the EDW.
- Review of weights and thresholds used in linkages as directed.
- Navigate ResoLink for Linkage (EDW); review persons, all source records, and any resolved cancer cases in order to correct linkage defects.
- Work with the IT and EDW teams to resolve issues related to linkage.
- Work with Ontario Cancer Registry staff after the annual CCR-STC (Canadian Cancer Registry-Statistics Canada) data submission to resolve errors on persons or cases identified by STC.
- Conduct the STC annual national death clearance.
- Conduct the STC annual national record linkage.
- Maintain patient/disease listings for Nunavut as directed.
The key responsibilities for cancer staging are:
- Retrieve, review, and interpret cancer information in patient records for the purpose of staging cancer cases as required by the Ontario Cancer Registry utilizing electronic data collection software.
- Stage cancer cases in compliance with internationally established rules and guidelines as set out by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging classification, SEER SSDI and Grade manuals and the American College of Surgeons Standards for Oncology Registry Entry (STORE) manual.
- Apply ICD-O codes and SEER Solid Tumor Rules to each staged case.
- Manage remote access accounts with multiple hospital electronic health record systems in keeping with data security and privacy agreements.
- Conduct this work in compliance with Ontario Cancer Registry productivity and data quality standards.
- Participate in data quality audits of cancer registry data, and user acceptance testing of data collection software.
- Must maintain subject matter expertise by attending mandatory continuing education.
- Work independently following established policies and procedures.
- Demonstrate methodical problem-solving skills and techniques.
- Exhibit collaboration and consultation with peers.
Here is what you will need to be successful:
Education and Experience:
- Certification as a Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) as designated by the National Cancer Registrar Association (preferred), OR.
- Certification in Health Information Management (CHIM) as designated by the Canadian College of Health Information, OR.
- Completion of a healthcare related College Diploma or Bachelor’s degree, with an agreement to pursue the CTR credential upon hiring.
- 2-4 years of cancer registry experience preferred.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Well versed in navigation of electronic health records and clinical chart review.
- Familiar with data collection software and data abstraction principles.
- Extensive knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy & physiology.
- Working knowledge of privacy legislation and ethical practices in the handling of personal health information.
- Proficient in Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, and MS Teams.
- Able to take initiative as required.
Attributes:
- Analytical
- Detail oriented
- Thorough
- Disciplined
- Communicative (written/spoken)
- Ability to work independently or in a team
Employment Type: Part-Time (0.5 FTE) Fixed Term Contract – Until March 28, 2025 (3 positions)
Salary Band: 4
Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)
All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
Internal Application Deadline Date: September 25, 2024
External Application Deadline Date: October 9, 2024
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.
We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and/or interview process.
