Unit Clerk - Children's Clinic

Shared Health-Soins Communs; Winnipeg; Presencial; CAD 42.000 - 54.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Shared Health in Manitoba is seeking a Unit Clerk to join a multidisciplinary health services team. You will receive patients, document their information accurately and act as the communication link on the unit, handling calls and messages.

You will transcribe orders, schedule appointments and tests, prepare payroll information for the area, and maintain charts, unit supplies and essential statistics in a fast-paced environment.

Formación

• Previous patient care experience preferred.
• Manitoba high school standards required.
• Unit Clerk training program completed; medical terminology 75% required.
• Criminal Records Check, vulnerable sector and child/adult abuse checks required.

Responsabilidades

• Receives patients to unit and ensures appropriate documentation is completed.
• Acts as communication link for the unit, answering telephone calls, determining urgency, and forwarding calls or relaying messages.
• Obtains, assembles and maintains charts.
• Transcribes physicians' orders.
• Schedules appointments/tests for patients and obtains test results.
• Performs a variety of tasks for the care and comfort of patients.
• Prepares payroll information for the area.
• Maintains unit supplies, compiles statistical information and performs other miscellaneous duties as required.

Conocimientos

Typing 35 wpm

English fluency

Indigenous language

Educación

Unit Clerk training program

High school diploma (Manitoba standards)

Descripción del empleo

Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Manager, Health Services, or Nurse in Charge and working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the incumbent:

• Receives patients to unit and ensures appropriate documentation is completed.
• Acts as communication link for the unit, answering telephone calls, determining urgency, and forwarding calls or taking and relaying messages.
• Obtains, assembles and maintains charts.
• Transcribes physicians' orders.
• Schedules appointments/tests for patients and obtains test results.
• Performs a variety of tasks for the care and comfort of patients.
• Prepares payroll information for the area.
• Maintains unit supplies, compiles statistical information and performs other miscellaneous duties as required.

Experience

• Previous patient care experience preferred.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• Complete high school education, Manitoba standards, required.
• Successful completion of a recognized Unit Clerk training program required. Medical terminology (75% pass mark) required.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

Not Applicable

Qualifications And Skills

• Typing/keyboarding skills 35 wpm required.
• Excellent command of the English language (both oral and written).
• Preference will be given to those applicants competent in an Indigenous language and/or knowledge in Indigenous customs, traditions and values.
• Knowledge:
• Information and/or training will be provided within the probation period for the following:
• Personal Health Information Act (PHIA), Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS) and Principles of Routine Practices (Universal Precautions).
• Regional, site and unit policies and procedures.
• Roles and responsibilities of members of the health care team.
• General administrative and secretarial skills and ability to perform all tasks and responsibilities relevant to duties of the position.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload.
• Ability to recognize and pursue self-development opportunities.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to respond to a variety of simultaneous demands.
• Ability to operate information technology equipment as required, e.g. fax, photocopier, computer, etc.
• Ability to perform as a team member and seek assistance as necessary.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to function effectively in a fast-paced environment with frequent interruptions.

This term position may end earlier as outlined in your collective agreement.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions in Shared Health that combine to equal more than 1.0 FTE.

Shared Health values and supports employment equity and workplace diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply. We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.