Unit Secretary Partial Hospital FT Days

Care New England Health System • Providence, RI

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About The Position

Butler Hospital is seeking a Unit Secretary for our first floor Adult Partial Program to support our growing team!

Requirements

• Education: High school graduate or equivalent, including course in English, typing, spelling and arithmetic.
• Training and Experience: 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.
• Experience in clerical or like work is required.

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 Hospitals service standards.
• Supporting other unit secretaries in census programs with similar tasks for their unit as assigned.
• Managing unit census/daily attendance and reporting attendance numbers daily.
• Maintaining supply orders for designated unit.
• Maintains supply of all necessary forms/packets/patient folders.
• Taking meeting minutes of staff meetings and distributing to staff.
• Maintains and keeps current staff list, staff directory of office/phone numbers, and supply of extra office keys.
• Manages incoming faxes.
• Supporting other unit secretary counterparts as needed.
• Performing various other clerical duties as needed on unit to support clinical staff, or as assigned by the program manager, including data entry (ie BASIS or other scales), mailing patient information packets, calling patients to provide basic information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees