General Office Clerk

**Req ID**:191163**
**Location**:Western** Zone, **South Shore Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPWZ Rehab & Respiratory Services SS**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly PT long-assignment** (**50%**) x **1**
**Admin Professionals** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:29-Nov-24**

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.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Manager, the General Office Clerk (GOC) receives monies on a daily basis, enters and retrieves data from automated and manual systems, responds to inquiries, maintains filing systems as well as carrying out assigned clerical functions to assist patients, clients and families at the Business Office and to support accounts receivable. The General Office Clerk is responsible for the receipt and processing of payments made to Nova Scotia Health, enters and verifies financial data.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Grade 12 or equivalent
- Completion of an approved Office Administration or Secretarial course
- Successful completion of Medical Terminology Course required
- One year experience providing clerical support, preferably in a health-care setting required
- Experience working in a financial setting an asset
- Proficient in the effective use of computers (Microsoft Suite - Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, E-mail) and the ability to acquire additional skills as necessary
- Excellent organizational, communication (oral and written), and interpersonal skills, demonstrating a high degree of tact, sensitivity, judgment, courtesy and confidentiality when dealing with all levels of staff and the public
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and accurately handle multiple priorities
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative team, with the ability to understand own limitations and seek guidance as necessary
- Demonstrated outcome oriented by identifying ways to improve work or processes based on results and/or evidence and evidence of innovation and creativity within project work
- Commitment to promoting a culture of respect that supports safety, ethical practices, cultural awareness and organizational health
- Demonstrated regular attendance in current and previous employment
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Long Assignment, Part-Time; 35 Hours Biweekly
- Approximately 12 Months

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$23.35 - 25.39 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.