Casual - Clinical Data Co-ordinator - Nursing/Health Background

Are you trained as an Enrolled Nurse, Registered Nurse or healthcare professional looking for a role where you can use your clinical knowledge without providing direct patient care?

Access Aged Care is looking for a Clinical Data Co-ordinator to support our national clinical quality registry. This is a non-clinical position focused on reviewing health records, interpreting clinical information and ensuring high-quality data is entered accurately into our registry.

Current AHPRA registration is not required.

Access Aged Care delivers a co-managed model of care within Residential Aged Care Homes, bringing together GPs, nurses, geriatricians and specialist teams to improve continuity of care, reduce avoidable hospitalisations and improve outcomes for older Australians.

Our Access Aged Care Clinical Quality Registry (AACCQR) collects clinical and healthcare utilisation data to measure outcomes, identify opportunities for improvement and support continuous improvement across our services.

Working as part of the Access Aged Care team, you will review patient records and other clinical information and enter relevant data into the Registry in accordance with established definitions and procedures.

• Reviewing clinical records and identifying information required by the Registry
• Accurately entering diagnoses, medications, hospital events and other clinical data
• Checking Registry records for completeness, accuracy and consistency
• Identifying and following up missing or unclear information
• Applying Registry definitions and data-entry rules consistently
• Liaising with nurses and other team members to clarify information where required
• Supporting routine data-quality and validation activities
• Maintaining appropriate privacy and confidentiality when handling sensitive health information
• Contributing ideas to improve Registry data quality and data-entry processes.

You do not need to be currently working as a nurse, but you will need enough clinical knowledge to confidently understand medical terminology and clinical records.

As this is a remote role, dealing with highly confidential and sensitive information, you will need to have a private area to work.

• A qualification or background in nursing or another relevant healthcare discipline - Enrolled Nurse training is sufficient
• A good understanding of medical terminology, diagnoses and medications
• Experience reading or working with clinical records
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong commitment to accuracy
• Confidence using computer systems and learning new databases
• Good organisational skills and the ability to work independently
• An understanding of patient confidentiality and privacy
• Clear communication skills and the confidence to ask questions when information is unclear.

Experience in residential aged care, general practice, hospital care, clinical audit, quality improvement, health information management or clinical registries would be highly regarded.

Experience with electronic medical records, clinical databases, Castor EDC, REDCap or Excel would also be advantageous, but is not essential.

This could be an excellent opportunity for an EN, RN or other healthcare professional looking to move away from bedside or shift-based clinical work while continuing to use their healthcare knowledge.

You will contribute to a growing clinical quality registry that is being used to understand and improve the care of older Australians.

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