Admitting Clerk

**Req ID**:140788**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Eastern** **Zone, **St. Martha's Regional Hospital**
**Department**:IMIT HIS Admitting & Registration SMRH**
**Type of Employment**:Casual** **Casual Relief** **(**3%** **FTE) x **2** **position(s)**
**Status: CUPE** **Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:12-Oct-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**:
The purpose of this position is to receive and register inpatients and outpatients in a professional, efficient and caring manner in accordance with hospital policies and procedures.

**Specific responsibilities include**:

- Admit, discharge and transfer patients
- Register outpatients for clinics, Day Surgery, Emergency
- Operate switchboard and direct calls as required to departments and patients
- Maintains current knowledge of alarm procedures
- Act as receptionist to the general public and other clients
- Generate, distribute and maintain daily/monthly statistical reports
- Accept financial payments, provide receipts, facilitate transport of receipts/payments to finance and maintain cash drawers
- Incumbent will utilize NShIS and CRT
- Other job related duties

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12 plus graduation from an accredited secretarial or business course, or 1 year related clerical/secretarial experience required
- Medical Terminology Course
- One (1) year experience in the clerical field an asset
- Proficient keyboarding skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of Windows
- Good interpersonal and communication skills - a high degree of tact, judgement and confidentiality
- Ability to work independently, assess situations and seek resolution if possible, in accordance with District policies and procedures
- Ability to work in an area with frequent interruptions
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

**Hours of Work**:

- Casual Relief positions

**Salary Information**:
$20.09 - $21.90 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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