Nursing Unit Clerk - Burnaby Hospital

at  Fraser Health

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $28.31 - $28.31 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
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.

• 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