Unit Secretary Butler Per Diem

Care New England; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Care New England’s Butler Hospital is seeking a Unit Secretary to perform clerical duties on a nursing or clinical unit. You will follow confidentiality expectations and support staff, patients, and families in a professional, helpful manner.

The role requires experience in clerical work, a high school diploma or equivalent, and ability to handle stress in a busy hospital environment. On-the-job training in hospital terminology is provided.

Qualifications

• Experience in clerical work is required.
• High school graduate or equivalent, including course in English, typing and arithmetic.
• On-the-job training in practices and terminology of the hospital.
• Must be able to perform duties under stress in a busy environment.

Responsibilities

• Observe hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Maintain patient charts and electronic medical records for admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Use electronic systems to ensure labs and orders are tended to timely.
• Report needed repairs to related services.
• Answer phones and relay messages.

Skills

Clerical experience

Typing

English proficiency

Stress management

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

The Unit Secretary performs clerical duties on a nursing or clinical unit. They follow confidentiality expectations and facilitate an atmosphere of cooperation by being professional, pleasant, and helpful to the staff, patients, and families. They observe all general hospital and departmental policies, guiding principles, rules and regulations. They attend orientation and complete ongoing in-service education as required.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Observing all general hospital and departmental policies, guiding principles, rules and regulations.
• Maintaining patient charts and electronic medical record for admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Working within electronic system to ensure labs and other communications / orders are tended to in a timely manner.
• Reporting needed repairs to related services.
• Making emergency phone calls as directed.
• Answering telephone and relaying messages accordingly.
• Adhering to Butler Hospital’s service standards.
• Managing unit census/daily attendance and reporting attendance numbers daily.
• Maintaining supply orders for designated units.
• Maintaining supply of all necessary forms/packets/patient folders.
• Managing incoming faxes and telephone calls.
• Assisting patients locate appropriate clinical staff to get their needs addressed.
• Performing various other clerical duties as needed on unit to support clinical staff, or as assigned by program manager, including data entry (ie BASIS or other scales), mailing patient information packets, calling patients to provide basic information.

Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent, including course in English, typing, spelling and arithmetic.
• Experience in clerical work is required.
• On-the-job training in practices and procedures of the hospital and certain medical terminology.
• Must be able to perform duties under stress and in a busy environment.

EEO Statements

Americans with Disability Act Statement: External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled must be able to perform the essential job-specific functions either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.

EEOC Statement: Care New England is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

Ethics Statement: Employee conducts himself/herself consistent with the ethical standards of the organization including, but not limited to hospital policy, mission, vision, and values.