Unit Assistant - Surgery Sched

Mclaren-Health-Care; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Michigan is seeking a Health Unit Coordinator to support nursing staff and assist in patient care per care plans and hospital policies. The role involves day shifts in a full-time schedule with varied daily hours.

Your responsibilities include routine patient care tasks, data collection and reporting, and clerical duties such as phone handling and data entry. Prior healthcare clerical experience is valued.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Health unit coordinator course or medical terminology/data entry coursework.
• Specialized education options include CNA/EMT/clinical rotation.
• Nursing assistant experience of at least six months if specialized education not met.
• Six months of clerical healthcare experience with direct patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provides routine patient/resident care such as call light response, ambulating, transferring, positioning, and personal hygiene assistance.
• Collects, records, and reports patient data and changes in condition.
• Provides general clerical support to the unit (phone, data entry, distribution of information).

Skills

Patient care

Data entry

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma

Health unit coordinator course

Nursing assistant certification

Emergency Medical Technician program

Medical assistant program

Clinical rotation in nursing program

Tools

Windows OS

MS Office

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Department:Surgery Sched
Daily Work Times:Varies
Shift: Day
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 80

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient/resident care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.

2. Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data.Reports changes in patient/resident condition.

3. Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry.
• Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:
• acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or
• long term care nursing assistant course or
• completion of an emergency medical technician program or
• completion of medical assistant program or
• completion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program.
• Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.
• Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.
• Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26011834
• Daily Work Times: Varies
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.