Clerk, Rehabilitation Services - Queen's Park Care Centre

at  Fraser Health

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $27.10 - $27.10 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to six Métis Chartered Communities.
Our team of nearly 45,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care. Learn more.
We are currently looking to fill a Casual opportunity for a Clerk, Rehabilitation Services at Queen’s Park Care Centre located in New Westminster, BC.
Queens Park Care Centre (QPCC) is located in New Westminster and provides rehabilitation services, an adult day program and a long-term care community. QPCC has an outpatient rehab service and 76 specialized inpatient rehabilitation beds. These provide intensive rehab for different patient populations including Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke rehab patients as well as lower leg amputees, complex neurological conditions and other muscular skeletal injuries. Queens Park is a small and friendly site with a close link to its community and a high dependency on it’s multidisciplinary team. An active wellness committee, a strong Foundation partnership and a leafy green location help support our focus on staff wellness. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute towards making a significant difference in patient or resident lives. Come help us take Queens Park into the future - Apply today!
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SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to keyboard at 45 wpm.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.

• Schedules and books patient appointments by receiving appointment requests, making follow up appointments, assigning and adjusting dates and times in accordance with established guidelines, maintaining patient wait list, contacting doctor’s offices, patient or unit to confirm patient appointment and directing patients to the appropriate area.
• Registers and admits new patients for rehabilitation within the program by obtaining and entering patient information, contacting referral agencies such as doctors and health care facilities to verify patient information, and completing admission and other required forms.
• Sets up and maintains filing systems for various department records.
• Types a variety of technical and non-technical documents such as correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, medical billings, statements and forms from draft and/or dictation; composes correspondence as directed.
• Performs clerical duties such as answering the telephone, taking and relaying messages, re-directing calls to the appropriate department, responding to general inquiries, maintaining supplies, preparing requisitions for signature, and collecting and distributing mail.
• Maintains and updates various records including department activities and statistics and prepares related summary reports.
• Provides patients with invoices for materials/supplies purchased, according to established guidelines. As required, collects monies and issues appropriate receipts, submitting monies and documentation to the Accounts Receivable Department.
• Arranges meetings as directed, books meeting rooms, types and circulates notices and agendas. Records, transcribes and distributes minutes of meetings. Maintains appointment calendar for program as required.
• Performs timekeeping by completing payroll sheets, entering payroll information into the computerized system, submitting to payroll and processing payroll corrections as necessary.
• Performs other related duties as assigned