Unit Clerk, Medicine Inpatient

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $28.31 - $28.31 / hour

Job Summary

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 modernised 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 of 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 plastic specialties.

We are committed to staff wellness and planetary health and have active working groups to support these initiatives. We also value career advancement and offer professional development and education opportunities.

We are currently looking to fill a Relief Full Time opportunity for a Unit Clerk to join the Acute Medicine Unit at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C.

Benefits

- Comprehensive, 100% Employer‑Paid Benefits: full coverage.

- Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation.

- Benefit Portability: seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.

- Immediate Pension Enrollment: secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.

- Maternity Top‑Up: receive an 87% top‑up during maternity leave.

- TransLink Pass Subsidy: save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes.

- Additional employee discounts and perks available.

*Eligibility based on employment status

Detailed Overview

Under general supervision, performs a variety of clerical duties related to the operation of a patient care area such as acting as a communication link for the area, transcribing and processing physicians' orders, coordinating with other departments and facilities, coordinating patient appointments, arranging patient tests and receiving results, receiving and directing visitors, and assembling and maintaining patient charts.

Responsibilities

1. Prioritises, processes, coordinates and transcribes physicians' orders by copying information, completing required forms and/or entering information into the computer and distributing information; performs follow‑up as necessary.

2. Schedules, books and coordinates patient appointments by receiving appointment requests, arranging appropriate appointment dates and times, making follow‑up appointments, adjusting appointments as required in accordance with patient and facility requirements; arranges patient tests; maintains appointment diaries by arranging and confirming patient appointments.

3. Acts as a communication link for the assigned area by contacting other facilities and departments, including bed booking to exchange information regarding bed availability to assist admissions, discharges and/or patient transfers; receives patients' tests, and receives visitors, provides information and directs to appropriate area.

4. Assembles and maintains patient charts according to established procedures; transcribes patient data into applicable health record system; attaches patient documents such as lab and/or special examination reports to chart; dismantles and forwards discharged patient records to Health Records.

5. Answers telephones, transfers calls, takes messages, answers routine inquiries or refers as appropriate; opens and distributes mail as required.

6. Performs related clerical duties such as data entry, filing, compiling, preparing and maintaining statistics including related reports, delivering and picking up items, maintaining and ordering stationery and supplies through stores, and arranging for and tracking equipment repairs as required.

7. Maintains time‑keeping records for regular and casual staff and submits/enters to payroll system as required. Receives and processes requests such as vacation, leaves of absence and terminations by preparing necessary documentation and forwarding to the Manager, Clinical Services or designate for approval.

8. Accepts calls from nursing staff regarding illnesses and/or absence from work and communicates information received to nursing unit and appropriate person; calls in relief nursing staff according to pre‑determined guidelines and refers problems to the Manager, Clinical Services or designate.

9. Maintains records on relief staff such as names, address, contact phone number, availability for work, suitable work area and hours worked.

10. Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Grade 12, medical terminology and graduation of a recognised Nursing Unit Clerk program, plus one year of recent, related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

- Ability to deal with others effectively.

- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

- Ability to keyboard at 40 wpm.

- Ability to organise work.

- Ability to operate related equipment.

- Ability to utilise a variety of computer software applications.

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 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. 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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