Unit Clerk

Requisition ID: 398859

Position Number: 20077479

Posting End Date: Open Until Filled

City: Winnipeg

Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Site

Pan Am Clinic - Pan Am Clinic - 75 Poseidon Bay

Department / Unit: Pain Clinic

Job Stream: Clinical Support

Union: CUPE

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

FTE

1.00

Anticipated Shift: Days;Evenings;Weekends

Work Arrangement: In Person

Daily Hours Worked

7.75

Annual Base Hours: 2015

Salary

$22.475, $23.136, $23.816, $24.515, $25.238, $25.982

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Position overview

The Pan Am Clinic is currently seeking a Unit Clerk for the Ambulatory Care Clinic. Reporting to the Manager of Ambulatory Care, the incumbent is responsible for providing clerical duties as well as meeting the departments' expectations.

Responsibilities

• Receives and registers patients to clinic, ensuring appropriate documentation is completed.
• Transcribes, processes and implements physicians' orders as required.
• Acts as communication link for the clinic, answering telephone calls, determining urgency and forwarding calls or taking and relaying messages.
• Obtains, assembles and maintains charts.
• Performs a variety of tasks pre-and-post visit to ensure patient care.
• Maintains unit supplies and performs other miscellaneous duties as required.

• Experience
• Previous related work experience preferred.

• Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)
• Completion of a high school or equivalent program of studies required.
• Successful completion of a recognized Unit Clerk course required.
• Medical Terminology required.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

Not Applicable

Qualifications

• And skills
• Minimum keyboarding speed of 30 wpm required.
• Must communicate fluently in written and spoken English.
• Must have good interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Must be able to function effectively in a stressful environment with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience maintaining a filing system.

• Physical requirements
• Must be able to function effectively in a stressful environment with frequent interruptions.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.