Health Unit Coordinator: Patient Care & Admin

Intermountain Health; Brighton (CO); On-site; USD 2,755,000 - 3,648,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health in Brighton, Colorado invites applications for a Health Unit Coordinator to support unit organization and patient care under nursing leadership. You will help coordinate patient flow, nursing and physician activities, and clerical tasks to maintain efficient unit operations.

Responsibilities include admission/discharge/transfer support, handling calls, transcribing orders, organizing records, and delivering excellent customer service to patients and families.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated clerical or customer service experience

Responsibilities

• Patient Care Support: Assists with admission, discharge, and transfer of patients, answers patient call lights, schedules tests and treatments, provides access control to visitor entrance to secure units, performs telemetry duties, and may deliver medications from the delivery system to the RN.
• Clerical Support: Answers unit telephones and disseminates information appropriately, processes, organizes, files, and maintains patient and unit records, transcribes physician orders, acts as unit receptionist, and may organize, stock, and maintain supplies on the unit.
• Collaboration and Customer Service: Performs functions delegated by the nursing manager and charge nurse, demonstrates effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, and organization, and provides excellent customer service when responding to patient/family requests, physicians, nursing, and other ancillary services.

Skills

Nursing

Patient Care

Office Administration

Medical Records Management

EMR

Teamwork

Computer Information

Organizing

Word Processing

Computer Literacy

Job description

Intermountain Health in Brighton, Colorado invites applications for a Health Unit Coordinator to support unit organization and patient care under nursing leadership. You will help coordinate patient flow, nursing and physician activities, and clerical tasks to maintain efficient unit operations.

Responsibilities include admission/discharge/transfer support, handling calls, transcribing orders, organizing records, and delivering excellent customer service to patients and families.