Nursing Unit Clerk

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $30.03 - $30.03 / hour
Job Summary

Join our incredible team at Royal Columbian Hospital! As a Nursing Unit Clerk, your excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and effective communication will ensure efficient operation and exceptional patient care within our busy units.

In this vital role, you'll process medical orders, coordinate patient activities, and maintain clear communication across healthcare teams.

Royal Columbian Hospital is hiring for multiple Casual Nursing Unit Clerk roles

New Westminster

New Westminster is known for its stunning waterfront views along the Fraser River, located on the north side of the Fraser River bordering several municipalities in each direction (Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey, and Delta), making it the centre of the Greater Vancouver region. 

You'll support patients with daily activities, collaborate closely with healthcare professionals, and become an integral part of a fast-paced medical team dedicated to excellence.

Grow professionally while making a difference in patients' lives every day!

The Royal Columbian Hospital Redevelopment Project is well underway with phase two slated to open in 2025, and phase three in 2026.

Highlights for the three-phase redevelopment project include:

• A new and larger Emergency Department will have more treatment spaces and a satellite medical imaging unit
• More operating rooms and interventional radiology and cardiac suites on a surgical and interventional ‘superfloor’
• More beds for intensive care, cardiac intensive care, obstetrical, and medical/ surgical patients
• Larger maternity unit joined to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Advanced technologies and equipment
• 350+ underground parkade, new main entrance, and rooftop heliport

RCH provides a number of highly specialized acute care services such as tertiary trauma, cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, interventional cardiology and thoracic surgery that often require the care of multiple medical specialists, multidisciplinary care teams and the use of specialized equipment and technology.

In addition, RCH provides referral services in a variety of medical and surgical specialties such as mental health and substance use, internal medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, gynecology, urology, ophthalmology, plastic surgeries.

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Detailed Overview

Under direct supervision maintains unit records and supply levels; performs reception and clerical duties related to the operation of the unit.
Responsibilities

1. Transcribes physicians orders by copying information, completing required forms and/or entering information into the computer and distributing as required.
2. Schedules patient activities such as diagnostic procedures, appointments or transportation by contacting appropriate departments, physicians offices or outside agencies and maintaining related records.
3. Maintains patient records according to established procedures by setting up charts, adding or removing forms, and forwarding discharged patient records to Health Records Department.
4. Performs reception duties such as greeting and directing visitors, answering the telephone, taking messages, answering routine inquiries or referring as appropriate; opening and distributing mail as required.
5. Maintains unit stationary and supply levels by monitoring stock, preparing stores orders, requisitions or stationary orders, completes equipment repair or maintenance orders as directed.
6. Orients new staff and students to unit by demonstrating procedures, answering questions and explaining unit organization and layout.
7. Performs clerical duties such as typing, filing and photocopying.
8. As required by the department, maintains timekeeping and other staff related records by coding and entering hours to timecards, transcribing rotation hours by copying information onto required forms and/or entering into the computer, according to established procedures. Forwards timesheets, staffing information to staffing/appropriate department.
9. As required by the department, maintains relief staff call in list information such as name, telephone number and work availability; contacting staff to fill vacancies as directed.
10. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Grade 12 graduation, completion of the Unit Clerk training course plus one year's recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to type 40wpm.
• Ability to deal effectively with others.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment such as personal computers and meditech terminals.

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 50,000+ 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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