Health Unit Coordinator
Shriners Children's
Health Unit Coordinator
Shriners Children's
Nonprofit pediatric specialty care and research
Company Overview
Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.
With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.
Job Description
We currently have an opening for a part-time Health Unit Coordinator to join our Portland, OR team. The HUC is responsible to Nursing leadership. Provides clerical and office support in the inpatient setting. The HUC is responsible for answering phones, directing communications, registering patients in the computer, maintaining patient information (paper and computerized), transporting specimens, and procuring needed supplies, medications, and blood products.
Key Responsibilities:
Seeks to provide an environment conducive to family centered care
Is aware of patient/parent and staff boundary issues
Supports the professional interdisciplinary staff in their role to provide expert clinical care to patients
Completes all paperwork for admissions and discharges according to policy and procedure
Demonstrates appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills when dealing with patients, families, visitors and other staff
Required Qualifications:
1 year Transcription, medical terminology, office organizational skills
1 year Computer applications, typing, general office skills
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Preferred Qualifications:
3 years' experience as Unit Clerk/Unit Secretary/Health Unit Coordinator
3 years experience Electronic Medical Record
Bilingual in Spanish
Nonprofit pediatric specialty care and research
Shriners Hospitals for Children runs a network of 22 pediatric specialty hospitals in the US, Canada, and Mexico, delivering advanced care for children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, cleft lip and palate, and other neuromusculoskeletal needs. Care is provided through a team-based, family-centered approach that combines surgery, rehabilitation, and therapies with education and research, all supported by philanthropy and partnerships. It differs from many competitors by being a nonprofit system funded by donations, offering coordinated, multi-location pediatric specialty care with a strong emphasis on family-centered care, research, and medical training. Its goal is to provide high-quality, compassionate care while advancing medical knowledge and training for healthcare professionals, sustained by charitable giving.
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