Health Unit Aide, Urgent Primary Care

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $24.80 - $26.43 / hour Why Fraser Health?: We hire great people for excellent jobs and need your help to expand our ability to deliver prompt and professional services. We are currently looking for a** Part Time Health Unit Aide** to join our Urgent Primary Care Centre team in **Chilliwack, B.C**. We are looking for a committed and personal person with an eye for detail who is able to juggle numerous tasks in a busy environment and conduct business in a professional manner. You like helping people and you display excellent communication skills while carrying a high level of integrity, discretion, and confidentiality. You will take a thorough, hands-on approach to deliver high quality and precise work with a focused approach to complete routine day-to-day tasks and handle changing calendars, priorities, and timelines. Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of 43,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care. Effective October 26th 2021, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer. Detailed Overview: Reporting to the Manager, Clinical Operations or designate, this position plays an essential role in ensuring the delivery of quality and timely care, including efficient flow of clients through the Urgent Primary Care Centre ("UPCC" or "Centre"), maintaining a focus on immediate aspects of client-centered care such as client comforts, and ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for all individuals. Maintains supply inventories, equipment and clinic rooms for the Centre, and performs duties such as preparing clinic rooms, ordering, maintaining and organizing medical/surgical inventories and supply areas, cleaning equipment and instruments, and delivery and processing of samples and lab specimens. The Centre provides urgent care to clients and longitudinal primary care to unattached vulnerable clients residing in the city of Surrey, to provide clients, families and caregivers with ease of access to timely, person-centred, continuous and culturally safe quality health services. As a member of an interdisciplinary team, ensures clients and their family members are supported in navigating the health care system. **Responsibilities**: - Maintains inventories of office, medical and pharmaceutical supplies and equipment by performing duties such as monitoring inventory levels, identifying requirements, processing and receiving orders, verifying invoices match packing slips, documenting, distributing supplies to staff as required, restocking/storing shipments, organizing repair/maintenance of equipment, delivering supplies and equipment to and from the hospital or other supply depot, as required. Communicates with Centre staff, central stores/purchasing, local hospitals and pharmacies and other health departments regarding supplies and equipment. - Provides support in clinical settings by performing duties such as setting up and dismantling rooms and calibrating and cleaning equipment such as scales and glucometers. - Prepares equipment and instruments for offsite sterilization in accordance with established procedures; cleans and organizes supply areas and prepares clinic rooms; cleans returned equipment and checks for repairs. - Delivers and disposes of supplies, biologicals, materials, and equipment by performing duties such as packaging, making arrangements for pickup and delivery, and transporting items such as samples and lab specimens. - Processes financial information such as encounter codes and physician billings using a computerized system, verifying information such as basic client details and coding, entering and updating records, calculating billing totals, uploading information for appropriate submission, following up on related discrepancies, and making corrections as directed. Refers complex problems to Manager or designate. - Performs administrative support duties by assembling, packaging, organizing and renewing pamphlets/resource information for distribution to the client and/or family. - Maintains department resources such as audiovisual and office equipment by carrying out minor maintenance such as loading paper, removing paper jams, cleaning glass and changing toner cartridges. Refers further maintenance of equipment required to the Manager. - In the course of completing duties to the C