Operating Room Unit Clerk

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $ $29.16 / hour
Job Summary

We are currently hiring for a Casual Operating Room Unit Clerk  to join our Operating team at Peace Arch Hospital located in White Rock, B.C.

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Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields. Fraser Health offers opportunities for career growth and advancement and competitive benefits, including but not limited, to:

Start earning up to four weeks of vacation in your first yearComprehensive 100% employer paid benefits Immediate enrollment in a defined municipal pension plan 87% maternity top-up50% subsidy on Translink passes

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We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

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Detailed Overview

Under the direction of the Manager, Clinical Services or designate, performs a variety of clerical, reception, and statistical support functions for the Operating Room area.
Responsibilities

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2. Performs reception duties such as answering the telephone, receiving/relaying messages, taking messages, answering routine inquiries or referring calls as appropriate.
   
3. Books emergency cases, completes related paperwork and notifies appropriate department, physicians, anaesthetists and staff, as directed.
   
4. Retrieves required charts from the units, attaches documents such as medication orders and laboratory reports, forwards charts for review by anaesthetist and returns charts to appropriate units, in accordance with established procedures.
   
5. Enters information on individual surgery into the information system. Distributes copies of the slates on the unit as established. Provides information on surgery, medical and nursing staff location, as required.
   
6. Participates in the efficient running of the unit by providing information such as patient or surgery location and/or coordinating patient related services such as scheduling for diagnostic procedures, patient transportation, blood bank. Notifies appropriate areas of adjustments to the O.R. slate.
   
7. Performs various related clerical duties such as retrieving daily, monthly and quarterly slates, maintaining/updating manual and computerized records, and compiling statistics.
   
8. Monitors and maintains unit stationery and supply levels, prepares documentation, and requisitions stationery supplies from stores and for STAT supplies from areas such as Pharmacy; completes equipment repair or maintenance orders as directed.
   
9. Orients new staff and students to unit by demonstrating procedures, answering questions, and explaining unit organization and layout.
   
10. Performs clerical duties such as typing, filing and photocopying.
    
11. Performs other related duties as required. 

Qualifications

Education and Experience

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

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to type at 40 w.p.m.
  
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
  
• Ability to deal effectively with others.
  
• Ability to organize work.
  
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
  
• Ability to operate related equipment.

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 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
 
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. 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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