Nursing Unit Clerk - Burnaby Hospital

Fraser Health•Burnaby, BC

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby. The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030. Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include: Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces, New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine, and mental health patients, New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces, New acute care tower with 160 beds, New medical imaging department, New integrated BC Cancer Centre. Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety of health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and plastics specialties. We are currently hiring for a Nursing Unit Clerk to join our Emergency team at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

Requirements

Grade 12 graduation, completion of the Unit Clerk training course plus one year's recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Knowledge of medical terminology.
Ability to type 40wpm.
Ability to deal effectively with others.
Ability to organize work.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
Ability to operate related equipment such as personal computers and meditech terminals.

Responsibilities

Transcribes physicians orders by copying information, completing required forms and/or entering information into the computer and distributing as required.
Schedules patient activities such as diagnostic procedures, appointments or transportation by contacting appropriate departments, physicians offices or outside agencies and maintaining related records.
Maintains patient records according to established procedures by setting up charts, adding or removing forms, and forwarding discharged patient records to Health Records Department.
Performs reception duties such as greeting and directing visitors, answering the telephone, taking messages, answering routine inquiries or referring as appropriate; opening and distributing mail as required.
Maintains unit stationary and supply levels by monitoring stock, preparing stores orders, requisitions or stationary orders, completes equipment repair or maintenance orders as directed.
Orients new staff and students to unit by demonstrating procedures, answering questions and explaining unit organization and layout.
Performs clerical duties such as typing, filing and photocopying.
As required by the department, maintains timekeeping and other staff related records by coding and entering hours to timecards, transcribing rotation hours by copying information onto required forms and/or entering into the computer, according to established procedures. Forwards timesheets, staffing information to staffing/appropriate department.
As required by the department, maintains relief staff call in list information such as name, telephone number and work availability; contacting staff to fill vacancies as directed.
Performs other related duties as assigned.