Unit Secretary- Weekends

The University of Kansas Health System; Kansas City (KS); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Unit Secretary, where your role is crucial in ensuring smooth operations within the unit. You'll be the welcoming face for patients and visitors, managing patient charts and electronic records with precision. This part-time position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to patient care by coordinating appointments and assisting with various tasks. If you're dedicated to providing excellent customer service and thrive in a dynamic environment, this role is perfect for you. Embrace a rewarding career in healthcare and make a difference in the lives of others.

Qualifications

• High School Graduate required.
• Completion of Medical Terminology class preferred.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a liaison, greets visitors, and ensures patient charts are organized.
• Monitors electronic records and assists with safety and environmental rounds.
• Schedules follow-up appointments and transports items as needed.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication Skills

Medical Terminology

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Unit Secretary acts as a liaison, greets visitors, patients, and healthcare team members in a courteous, customer-focused manner. Ensures patient charts are organized, accurate, and complete per hospital chart order. Initiates breakdown of chart and completes discharge checklist. Monitors electronic records for new orders, consults for completion, accurate treatment teams, patient status, new results, and advance directives. Completes order entry for equipment, advance diet, and transport orders. Orders patient supplies and unit equipment as needed. Monitors and updates inventory and downtime bin. Enters dietary intake. Assists with safety and environmental rounds, monitors cleanliness, and assists with infection prevention efforts.

Position Title

Unit Secretary - Weekends, Cambridge Tower A

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Answers telephone and triages calls to the unit, calls for consults, support, and ancillary departments as needed.
• Assists in monitoring patient disposition at all times as they leave or return to the unit, using log.
• Assists with non-patient care needs as requested by unit staff (turning off lights, delivering mail, flowers, etc.).
• Completes necessary filing. Ensures call light system is updated with patient assignments each shift.
• Informs Admitting of discharges immediately upon patient leaving the unit if needed.
• May be required to provide constant observation.
• Maintains work area in a neat and orderly fashion.
• Schedules follow-up appointments for patients.
• Transports items to ancillary departments as needed and picks up items if required.
• Performs the professional, clinical, and/or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• High School Graduate

Required Licensure and Certification

• Basic Life Support Heartsaver (BLS HS) (Non-Clinical) - American Heart Association (AHA) Heartsaver CPR/AED or BLS

Knowledge Requirements

• Completion of Medical Terminology class preferred

Time Type:

Part time

Job Requisition ID:

R-43003

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status, or genetic information.