Unit Clerk - Perinatal - Part Time

Cayuga Medical Center

27d•$18 - $24•Onsite

About The Position

The Unit Clerk coordinates activities on the Perinatal unit, including greeting and directing visitors, patients, physicians, and staff. The role supports patient admissions, discharges, and transfers; maintains accurate and current information in patient charts; and assists nursing staff with non-clinical duties, including managing unit and patient equipment and supplies. The position is part-time, based at Arnot Ogden Medical Center, and scheduled for 20 hours per week across Monday through Sunday, with day/evening scheduling. The listed pay range is $17.84–$24.23 per hour.

Requirements

High school diploma, or comparable work experience accepted as a substitute for formal educational credentials.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within 90 days of hire.
Ability to operate a telephone, fax machine, and copy machine and handle medical records and other documents.
Normal speech, vision, and hearing.

Nice To Haves

Training in secretarial skills and medical terminology preferred.

Responsibilities

Greet patients and visitors courteously, direct them to appropriate areas, help them feel welcome, and enforce visiting policies as requested by the nurse.
Coordinate patient admissions, complete admission documents, assist with room assignments, initiate labeled medical records, help ensure admission diagnostic work is completed promptly, and notify the nurse of stat orders.
Coordinate patient discharges and transfers, prepare medical records for discharge, and deliver completed records to Health Information Services after discharge.
Answer telephone calls and patient intercom requests courteously and promptly; relay messages and calls to appropriate personnel and patients, and share information with other departments as needed.
Process physician orders, help ensure orders and stat orders are completed, notify the nurse of new orders, ensure orders are double-checked by the nurse for transcription, refer telephone and verbal orders to the nurse, and sign, date, and time processed orders.
Coordinate patient activities, note patient departures to and returns from other departments, and notify other departments about pertinent changes in patient status or physician orders.
Assist nursing staff in obtaining equipment or supplies from Central Supply and order supplies from the storeroom.
Make patient appointments and arrange transportation as requested.