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Job Summary: Under the direction of the Manager or Senior Manager, the Senior Clinical Data Specialist plays a vital role in delivering quality solutions to hospital partners across the country, approaching each hospital engagement as an opportunity to apply your expertise with precision. This is a unique opportunity to become a part of our team during a milestone moment in our growth, benefiting from our deep cancer registry experience and employee-centric leadership.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Bring your specialized knowledge and patient storytelling skills to our hospital partners through categorizing, coding, summarizing, interpreting, and mining registry/case information from nuanced, unstructured patient medical records.
- Perform data collection (abstracting) and reporting on eligible cancer cases under current state mandates and national accrediting agencies.
- Ensure quality submission of all data in specified registries or measure data repositories, maintaining a high accuracy threshold.
- Support our partners’ CoC Accreditation process with strong cancer registry operations, creation of policies and procedures, utilization of NCBD quality tools and knowledge of the how all the standards support quality patient care.
- Engage in a variety of educational opportunities, including on-the-job learning guided by our in-house Quality Education Team along with easily accessible CEUs and paid time for continuing education.
- Stay up to date on mandated regulatory/publicly reported data requirements as specified by federal, state, payer, and other agencies.
- Contribute to team best practices, data dictionaries, abstraction guidelines, and other business rule documents while also identifying process improvement opportunities to help streamline tasks and processes.
- Participate in our culture of perpetual learning and meaningful collaboration, supporting the development of your colleagues, including team members who recently obtained their ODS Certification and Clinical Data Support Specialists.
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Know how to evaluate concordance with cancer program accreditation and other applicable standards.
- Have experience working with multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
- Possess strong analytical and critical thinking skills to approach problems in a systematic method, synthesizing data and suggesting recommendations.
- Hold high standards for accuracy and are attentive to detail.
- Call yourself technically savvy and are interested in learning new systems and technology.
- Organized and adept at managing your time across multiple accounts and shifting timelines and priorities.
- Deeply value information security and privacy, maintaining high responsibility in keeping PHI secure and confidential (psst… Q-Centrix is SOC2 + HITRUST certified, so we take our cybersecurity seriously!).
- Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel).
- Applicants for employment with Q-Centrix must be legally able to work in the United States now or in the future without sponsorship.
Education and Experience:
- Must be the proud recipient of a ODS Certification.
- Must have at least 2+ years experience abstracting with an ODS certification.
- Direct data abstraction experience in the Cancer Registry.
- Exposure to patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
Total Rewards:
At Q-Centrix, our purpose—safer, consistent, quality healthcare for all—drives everything we do. To accomplish this important work, we need to attract, engage, and retain a talented team by providing a compelling, equitable rewards package comprised of an inclusive culture, flexible work environment, learning and development opportunities, competitive pay that rewards high performance, and robust benefits that support health and financial wellness. Add to this package a supportive community of people who help each other not only do meaningful work, but learn, grow, and have fun while doing so, and you get an organization that has earned the Great Place to Work distinction multiple years in a row!
The target wage range for this role is $27.00 - $34.00 per hour. Individual wage rates within this range are based on multiple factors including but not limited to skills, experiences, licensure, certifications, and other business and organizational considerations. Wage ranges are reviewed, at minimum, annually and all team members are eligible for performance-based wage rate increases annually.
In addition to our inclusive and innovative working environment and competitive pay, part-time* team members enjoy a fully remote work environment with a flexible schedule.
*Team members who are committed to work 29 hours or fewer each week are considered part-time
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging:
At Q-Centrix, we hire people who love learning, value innovation, and believe in our purpose of safer, consistent, quality health care for all. We applaud qualified applicants who are accountable and committed to producing quality work. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we support and value diversity, dignity, and respect in our work environment, and are committed to creating an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.
We employ people based on the needs of the business and the job, and their individual professional qualifications. Here’s what does not impact our employment decisions: race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status, health, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any status or characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. If you are an individual with a qualified disability and you need an accommodation during the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.
