Full-Time Health Unit Clerk (HUC)

UHS•Fargo, ND

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Join the expanding team in our new state of the art 132 bed behavioral health facility! This full-time opportunity offers 40 hours per week, full benefits, and Monday-Friday. Prairie St. John's has been providing services for children, adolescents, and adults to address behavioral health and substance use challenges since 1997. Prairie offers inpatient hospitalization, day treatment, and intensive outpatient services. Accredited by The Joint Commission, we are the largest, freestanding behavioral health facility in the region. More than 4,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Prairie St. John's.

Requirements

Previous experience working with children, adolescents or adults in a health care setting or group setting such as day care, school, group homes, or residential facilities.

Responsibilities

Organizes assigned activities in order to complete them in a timely fashion.
Assists in organizing the unit and nurses’ stations.
Helps direct patient flow, retrieves charts form the physician’s offices, tracks patient lab work and other documents; and monitors the admission lab turnaround.
Demonstrates the ability to prioritize responsibilities.
Must be able to work on all units as necessary.
Initiates chart forms for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges; assembles admission charts.
Maintains patients’ charts in appropriate organizational and sequential order.
Inventories unit stock ensuring availability of proper supplies.
Files reports and test results in a timely manner.
Prints out nursing notes.
Maintains a supply of admission chart packs.
Assists in maintaining the patient bed board.
Calls for and obtains previous medical records for patients upon admission.
Communicates patient requests to appropriate staff member in a timely manner.
Schedules patients’ appointments and pre-registers patients for existing appointments.
Assists staff with answering the phone.
Assists with duties of the Mental Health Tech as necessary.
Assists with Emergency Code Response.
Participates in therapeutic crisis intervention when needed with patients.
Observes and monitors the patients’ status and safety; delivers care according to standards consistent with multidisciplinary treatment and discharge plan, care directives, and expected outcomes.
Assists RN and LPNs with daily set up and delineation of duties upon the approval of the RN.
Contacts outpatient providers to notify of patient admission.
Contacts parents for children/adolescents to notify of admission.