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**Req ID**:126278**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Western** **Zone, **Valley Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPWZ PERI Day Surgery VRH**
**Type of Employment**:Casual Relief** **(**3%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status**:Admin Professionals** NSGEU** **position**
**Posting Closing Date**:7-Sep-22**

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, the Booking Clerk is the initial contact for the unit and ensures clear concise communication and facilitates the flow of information with other facilities, the health care team, visitors, family members and patients. As part of a multidisciplinary team the Booking Clerk provides supportive service to patients, core nursing staff and physicians and works in cooperation with departments within the hospital setting as well as other Nursing units. The role may also include stocking and ordering of equipment for the department.

The Booking Clerk ensures that the principles and practices that guide our work such as the mission, vision, values, expected behaviors, the leadership philosophy, organizational health, population health, ethics, safety, quality, partnerships and interprofessional collaboration are integrated within the services they provide and through the messages they deliver.

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12 or equivalent
- Graduate of an approved office administration course or minimum of one (1) year experience in a secretarial/general clerical position
- Successful completion of a course in medical terminology
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills (listening, verbal and written), demonstrating a high degree of tact, sensitivity, judgment, courtesy and confidentiality when dealing with physicians, all levels of staff and the public.
- Demonstrated accountability
- Demonstrated judgment and decision making skills
- Demonstrated commitment to customer service
- Demonstrated communication and conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrated collaboration and teamwork skills
- Commitment to continuous improvement and innovation
- Demonstrated leadership abilities
- Demonstrated planning and time management skills
- Minimum keyboarding skills of 25 wpm, with a maximum 5% error rate, and data entry experience.
- Commitment to promoting a culture that supports safety, ethical practices and organizational health
- Physical capabilities to perform the duties of the position
- Exemplary work history as demonstrated in current and past employment
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

**Hours of Work**:
Casual Relief position

**Salary Information**:
$21.80 to $24.39 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit - NSGEU 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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