Ward Clerk

**Req ID**:133166**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Western** **Zone, **Valley Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPWZ W&C Women & Children's Health VRH**
**Type of Employment**:Casual** **Casual Relief** **(**3%** **FTE) x **10** **position(s)**
**Status**:Admin Professionals** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:20-Mar-23**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Manager Maternal Child, the Ward Clerk is responsible for all clerical duties assigned in the provision of efficient and effective patient care. Duties include assembling patients’ charts, compiling statistical information, maintaining supplies, photocopying, faxing and transcribing prescribers' orders. The Ward Clerk provides pleasant, cooperative, timely and accurate information to physicians, nursing staff and patients, exhibiting sound judgment and initiative, while working within the Mission, Vision and Strategic Directions and incorporates into daily practice the Core Competencies and Values of the organization.

**Qualifications**:

- Grade XII or equivalent
- Successful completion of a recognized office administration program
- Successful completion of Medical Terminology Course
- Expectation to obtain HASP (payroll) training, Meditech & Share training
- Must have a high aptitude towards office organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work in harmony as a member of the inter-professional team and the nursing program
- Must be able to use initiative and work with mínimal supervision
- Data entry and word processing experience/training in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook required
- Must be able to perform duties that involve lifting, bending and stretching
- Experience with community wide scheduling an asset for some units (i.e Oncology, Renal Dialysis)
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred.
- Successful Applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any additional costs as a condition of employment

**Hours of Work**:
10 Casual Relief position

**Salary Information**:
$20.10 - $21.91 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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