The salary range for this position is CAD $28.31 - $28.31 / hour
Job Summary
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 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 looking to fill a Relief Full-Time opportunity for a Nursing Unit Clerk to join the Surgical Short Stay Unit at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C.
Detailed Overview
Under the general supervision of the Manager, Health Services, performs reception and clerical duties related to the operation of the unit.
Responsibilities
- Processes physicians' written orders; flags charts for RN to check.
- Compiles charts and Kardex on admission; prepares and completes necessary documentation for admission of surgical patients, discharges, transfer or death of a patient.
- Maintains departmental timekeeping; enters payroll data into computer; prints reports for the manager; makes adjustments as required.
- Answers telephone, take and relay messages, answers routine inquiries or refer as appropriate; opens and distributes mail, faxes, etc.
- Acts as a receptionist; greets and directs visitors and patients.
- Orients new staff and students to unit; demonstrates procedures, answers questions and explains unit organization and layout.
- Picks up and sign for narcotics as required.
- Maintains stationary and supply levels for unit; monitors stock, prepares requisition for reorder.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Grade 12, completion of a Unit Clerk Program plus one (1) year's recent, related experience as a unit clerk in an acute facility or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to type at 40 w.p.m.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to deal with others effectively.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and organize workload.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
- Ability to operate a computer and related equipment.
About Fraser Health
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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