Operating Room Unit Clerk - Burnaby Hospital

Fraser Health Authority; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 34,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-Paid Benefits

Vacation up to four weeks

Pension enrollment from day one

TransLink pass subsidy

Maternity top-up 87%

Benefit portability

Employee discounts

Job summary

Fraser Health Authority in Burnaby is seeking a dedicated Operating Unit Clerk to support the Burnaby Hospital OR area. You will perform clerical and reception tasks, manage charts and surgery information, and coordinate scheduling and patient-related services.

The role emphasizes accuracy, communication, and teamwork to support a high-volume surgical unit within a major health campus redevelopment project.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 and a Nursing Unit Clerk program graduate.
• Recent related experience of about one year preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Responsibilities

• Answer the telephone and relay messages; handle routine inquiries.
• Book emergency cases, complete paperwork and notify departments and staff.
• Retrieve charts, attach documents, forwards charts for review by staff.
• Enter surgery information into the information system and manage unit slate.
• Coordinate patient transportation and scheduling for diagnostic procedures.
• Maintain records, statistics and requisition supplies as directed.
• Orient new staff; perform typing, filing and photocopying tasks.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Skills

Typing 40 wpm

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Physical fitness

Equipment operation

Education

Grade 12

Nursing Unit Clerk program

Job description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $30.03 - $30.03 / hour

Job Summary

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby.

The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

• Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces
• New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine and mental health patients
• New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces
• New acute care tower with 160 beds
• New medical imaging department
• New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology and plastics specialties.

We are committed to staff wellness and planetary health and have active working groups to support these initiatives. In addition, we value career advancement and offer professional development and education opportunities.

We are currently looking to fill a Full Time opportunity for a Operating Unit Clerk to join Burnaby Hospital.

Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including:

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes
• Additional employee discounts and perks available

*Eligibility based on employment status

We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

Detailed Overview

Under the direction of the Manager, Clinical Services or designate, performs a variety of clerical, reception, and statistical support functions for the Operating Room area.

Responsibilities

1. Performs reception duties such as answering the telephone, receiving/relaying messages, taking messages, answering routine inquiries or referring calls as appropriate.
2. Books emergency cases, completes related paperwork and notifies appropriate department, physicians, anaesthetists and staff, as directed.
3. Retrieves required charts from the units, attaches documents such as medication orders and laboratory reports, forwards charts for review by anaesthetist and returns charts to appropriate units,in accordance with established procedures.
4. Enters information on individual surgery into the information system. Distributes copies of the slates on the unit as established. Provides information on surgery, medical and nursing staff location, as required.
5. Participates in the efficient running of the unit by providing information such as patient or surgery location and/or coordinating patient related services such as scheduling for diagnostic procedures, patient transportation, blood bank. Notifies appropriate areas of adjustments to the O.R. slate.
6. Performs various related clerical duties such as retrieving daily, monthly and quarterly slates, maintaining/updating manual and computerized records, and compiling statistics.
7. Monitors and maintains unit stationery and supply levels, prepares documentation, and requisitions stationery supplies from stores and for STAT supplies from areas such as Pharmacy; completes equipment repair or maintenance orders as directed.
8. Orients new staff and students to unit by demonstrating procedures, answering questions, and explaining unit organization and layout.
9. Performs clerical duties such as typing, filing and photocopying.
10. Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Grade 12, medical terminology graduation from a recognized Nursing Unit Clerk program, plus one years recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to type at 40 w.p.m.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal effectively with others.
• Ability to organize work.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.