Manager Cancer Registry
St. Elizabeth Healthcare - Edgewood, KY
Hiring: Manager Cancer Registry Company: St. Elizabeth Healthcare Location: Edgewood, KY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 07:43:11 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Regulatory Compliance About the job Experience: •160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. •3 years Certified Oncology Data Specialist •3 years leadership, supervisory, or management experience •2 years experience leading or coordinating oncology accreditation, quality, regulatory, governance, or program improvement initiatives Required Skills: •St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Manager for Cancer Registry. •Shift/Hours: Full Time, 40 hours/week, 1st shift, 8:00AM - 5:00PM with flexibility. •Following the initial full time in office training period, the role is eligible for a hybrid work schedule with one in office day per week. •Provides operational leadership for cancer registry staff through workforce planning, performance management, competency validation, training, mentoring, professional development, and corrective action as needed. Promotes accountability and adherence to established expectations. •Develops, implements, and maintains registry-related policies, procedures, and standard work. Conducts routine and annual review to ensure alignment with workflows, standards, and program requirements. •Monitors registry work queues, backlog, productivity, abstraction timeliness, edit resolution, follow-up completion, and submission readiness to ensure team capacity is aligned with required deadlines and reporting expectations. •Ensures registry staff onboarding, competency validation, continuing education, and certification-related development are maintained to support abstraction quality, coding accuracy, and regulatory compliance. •Monitors AI-enabled registry system performance, identifies workflow or output concerns, escalates system/vendor issues as appropriate, and supports ongoing optimization to ensure technology-enabled workflows produce reliable and efficient registry operations. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in related field •Certified Oncology Data Specialist. (ODS-C) •Comprehensive knowledge of cancer registry operations including case finding, abstraction, follow-up, coding, and reporting standards. •In-depth knowledge of cancer-related medical terminology, anatomy, staging, and coding systems (e.g., AJCC, SEER). •Knowledge of data validation, quality assurance, and audit processes within a cancer registry environment. •Knowledge of registry data governance principles, including appropriate data definitions, data release, privacy safeguards, and interpretation of registry data for internal and external use. •Demonstrated capacity to direct registry operations and allocate staff resources to meet abstraction, follow-up, reporting, and regulatory timeliness requirements. •Knowledge of registry work queue management, backlog monitoring, abstraction timeliness, edit resolution, follow-up completion, and submission readiness. •Knowledge of policy development, standard work design, operational implementation, and process improvement methodologies. •Knowledge of oncology program accreditation standards (e.g. CoC, QOPI) and experience supporting project selection, data gathering, analysis, implementation, and monitoring Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!