Unit Clerk- Emergency - Ridge Meadows Hospital -Maple Ridge

Fraser Health; Maple Ridge; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic healthcare team as a Relief Part-Time Unit Clerk at a community hospital, where your skills will help ensure quality care for patients. This role offers a chance to work in a supportive environment, where you will manage clerical tasks, coordinate patient appointments, and serve as a vital communication link within the hospital. With comprehensive health benefits, generous vacation time, and opportunities for career advancement, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in healthcare. If you're passionate about patient care and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this role is an exciting opportunity for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

Employee and family assistance program

Generous vacation time

Exclusive staff discounts

Defined pension plan

Qualifications

• Completion of Grade 12 and a recognized Nursing Unit Clerk program.
• One year of recent, related experience or equivalent combination.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and transcribe physicians' orders and manage patient appointments.
• Maintain patient charts and assist with communication between departments.
• Perform clerical duties including data entry, filing, and maintaining statistics.

Skills

Effective communication

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Keyboarding (40 wpm)

Ability to operate equipment

Computer software applications

Education

Grade 12

Medical terminology

Nursing Unit Clerk program

Job description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $28.31 - $28.31 / hour.
Job Summary

Are you passionate about playing an essential role in ensuring the delivery of quality and timely care of clients? Are you a Unit Clerk looking to showcase your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a new and dynamic environment? If you have answered “yes”, we want you to keep reading to explore your career with us!

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Relief Part-Time Unit Clerk to join our Emergency team at Ridge Meadows Hospital. Apply today and join our beautiful community in Maple Ridge, B.C.

Ridge Meadows Hospital (RMH) has 172 acute care beds. As a community hospital, it provides primary and secondary acute care and specialty services including 24/7 emergency, ambulatory care, day surgery, general and internal medicine, rehabilitation, maternity care, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, critical care, pharmacy, medical imaging, and a medical laboratory for both inpatient and outpatient needs. The site also offers a continuum of adult psychiatric and social services available on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Experience some of the benefits of working with us, including:

• Career advancement and growth opportunities.
• Comprehensive health benefits including extended health and dental 100% paid by us, that cover you and your whole family.
• Health and well-being resources, including an employee and family assistance program.
• Generous vacation time: eligible employees can earn up to four (4) weeks of vacation per year, with the possibility of accruing extra time based on their tenure with us.
• Access to exclusive staff discounts and perks with various partners including, a Transit Incentive Program.
• A defined pension plan.

Join our team at Fraser Health - where cared for people, care for people.

Detailed Overview

Under general supervision, performs a variety of clerical duties related to the operation of a patient care area such as acting as a communication link for the area, transcribing and processing physicians' orders, coordinating with other departments and facilities, coordinating patient appointments, arranging patient tests and receiving results, receiving and directing visitors, and assembling and maintaining patient charts.
Responsibilities

1. Prioritizes, processes, coordinates and transcribes physicians' orders by copying information, completing required forms and/or entering information into the computer and distributing information; performs follow up as necessary.
2. Schedules, books and coordinates patient appointments by receiving appointment requests, arranging appropriate appointment dates and times, making follow up appointments, adjusting appointments as required in accordance with patient and facility requirements; arranges patient tests; maintains appointment diaries by arranging and confirming patient appointments.
3. Acts as a communication link for the assigned area by contacting other facilities and departments, including bed booking to exchange information regarding bed availability to assist admissions, discharges and/or patient transfers; receives patient's tests, and receives visitors, provides information and directs to appropriate area.
4. Assembles and maintains patient charts according to established procedures; transcribes patient data into applicable health record system; attaches patient documents such as lab and/or special examination reports to chart; dismantles and forwards discharged patient records to Health Records.
5. Answers telephones, transfers calls, takes messages, answers routine inquiries or referring as appropriate; opens and distributes mail as required.
6. Performs related clerical duties such as data entry, filing, compiling, preparing and maintaining statistics including related reports, delivering and picking up items, maintaining and ordering stationery and supplies through stores, and arranging for and tracking equipment repairs as required.
7. Maintains timekeeping records for regular and casual staff and submits/enters to payroll system as required. Receives and processes requests such as vacation, leaves of absence and terminations by preparing necessary documentation and forwarding to the Manager, Clinical Services or designate for approval.
8. Accepts calls from nursing staff regarding illnesses and/or absence from work and communicates information received to nursing unit and appropriate person; calls in relief nursing staff according to pre-determined guidelines and refers problems to the Manager, Clinical Services or designate.
9. Maintains records on relief staff such as names, address, contact phone number, availability for work, suitable work area and hours worked.
10. Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

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

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to keyboard at 40 wpm.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Ability to utilize a variety of computer software applications.

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 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. 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.