Are you interested in a career that allows you to apply your clinical interests in oncology and your strong interpersonal skills with the opportunity to make significant improvements in the care of patients?
The mission of the Rossy Cancer Network (RCN) is to improve the quality of cancer care received by the population served directly by the McGill Academic Health Network.
Its vision is to establish the RCN as a world-class comprehensive cancer network, with quality of care and outcomes in cancer survival, mortality and patient satisfaction as good as or better than leading international comprehensive cancer centres and leading jurisdictional networks.
POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Disease Site Program Manager, the Quality Improvement Coordinator (QIC) will be responsible for (i) collecting and reporting on Disease-Site specific indicators, (ii) increasing network engagement and cohesiveness and (iii) supporting project managers. The QIC will be assigned to two Disease site groups (Head & Neck / Sarcoma) across three partner hospitals of the Rossy Cancer Network (JGH, MUHC and SMHC).
The Quality Improvement Coordinator will:
Take overall responsibility for the life-cycle of the clinical indicators for the disease site group.
- Create the indicator specification sheet
- Under the leadership of the DS leads and project manager, identify possible indicators and determine the rationale for indicator collection (literature review), identify benchmarks and targets, determine data extraction methodology
- Extract, analyze and present data
- Perform data extraction from medical charts and other hospital systems as needed
- Analyze data with the support of statistician
- Use critical thinking skills and reasoning to process data, synthesize information and identify patterns or irregularities in data.
- Convey medical and technical material in a concise and effective manner
- Create final indicator reports
Foster network engagement and cohesiveness
- Attend or support planning of tumour boards, disseminate information about ongoing clinical trial activities, facilitate patient transfers between hospitals
- Provide administrative support to the Disease Site (DS) leads including emailing team members, scheduling steering committee and other meetings, booking rooms, and taking minutes as required.
- Plan seminars and events
- Act as a point-of-contact for clinicians within the DS group and RCN staff members.
Provide coordination support to the PM for disease site specific projects
REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum Baccalaureate Degree in a life-science field
- Prior experience in a healthcare setting, with knowledge of hospital information systems (ex. OACIS, scheduling systems, etc)
- Hospital experience in oncology
- Familiarity with oncology medical terminology
- Proven experience conducting literature reviews and communicating complex information in a clear concise manner
Personal attributes
- Outstanding interpersonal skills – with the ability to form strong connections with all types of medical staff, including administrative personnel, researchers and clinicians.
- Strong aptitude for critical thinking - analytical and logical mindset
- Effective self-starter with a high degree of motivation and enthusiasm.
- Strong organizational skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy is vital
- Must be able to effectively visually communicate findings
- Excellent written communication skills
- Strong computer literacy (MS Office Suite: Excel, Word, Power Point). Knowledge of Access is an asset.
- Bilingual (English and French)
WORKING CONDITIONS
Status: Full-time contract with annual renewal
TO APPLY
Application deadline: April 27, 2018.
Please upload your letter of interest and CV on our application page .
Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted.
For additional questions, contact Ana Pauna (ana.pauna [at] mcgill.ca).