Join us in advancing safer, consistent, quality healthcare for all.
At Q-Centrix, we believe in growing the next generation of cancer registrars. Our Oncology Clinical Data Specialist role is ideal for newly ODS-certified professionals looking to launch their careers in the Cancer Registry space. As an Oncology Clinical Data Specialist, you’ll gain hands-on experience abstracting oncology data while contributing to high-quality, meaningful work that supports cancer care and outcomes.
Oncology Clinical Data Specialists (CDS) join Q-Centrix in our Q-Centrix Institute (QCI). There, you’ll receive structured mentorship, ongoing education, and dedicated support over the first six months to help you grow your capabilities even further. This program is tailored to bridge the gap between certification and real-world application, ensuring you have the tools, community, and guidance needed to thrive in the oncology registry field.
Want more jobs like this?
Get Data and Analytics jobs that are Remote delivered to your inbox every week.
If you're ready to turn your certification into a meaningful career, we’d love to connect with you.
Job Summary: The Oncology Clinical Data Specialist (CDS) is responsible for abstracting and interpreting complex oncology data, helping to ensure accurate reporting, regulatory compliance, and improved patient care—while continuing to grow professionally through mentorship and ongoing learning opportunities. 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 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.
- Where applicable, support our partners' CoC Accreditation process with strong cancer registry operations.
- Engage in a variety of educational opportunities, including on-the-job learning guided by our in-house Learning & Development 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.
- Contribute to our culture of perpetual learning and meaningful collaboration, supporting the development of your colleagues, including ODS-C (formerly CTR) and Clinical Data Support Specialists.
- Must be the proud recipient of an Oncology Data Specialist (ODS) Certification.
- Exposure to patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
- Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (Microsoft Excel and Outlook).
- Knowledge on evaluating concordance with cancer program accreditation and other applicable standards.
- 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.
- Technically savvy and interested in learning new systems and technology.
- Strong organizational skills and can adeptly manage 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!).
- Applicants for employment with Q-Centrix must be legally able to work in the United States now or in the future without sponsorship.
- Must commit to 40 hours per week.
Education and Experience:
- Experience working at or with a CoC Accredited facility.
- Experience working with multiple patient medical record systems (EMRs) and clinical databases.
- Direct data abstraction experience in the Cancer Registry.
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 $25.00 - $26.00 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. The Q-Centrix compensation plan is productivity and accuracy focused, therefore, actual compensation could be higher or lower than target, dependent upon the team member’s performance.
In addition to our inclusive and innovative working environment and competitive pay, full-time* team members enjoy:
- A fully remote work environment with flexible schedule and a generous Paid Time Off program with additional paid time for volunteering.
- Robust benefits package including medical, vision, dental, health savings accounts, company paid short- and long-term disability, employee assistance program, paid parental leave, life insurance, accident insurance, and other voluntary benefit programs for employees and their eligible dependents.
- 401(k) retirement plan with a company match.
- Paid professional development hours and other supportive resources.
*Team members who are committed to work 30 or more hours each week are considered full-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.