Unit Coordinator 24 hours day / evening

Clerical Support Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Job Description :

Position Summary : Under general supervision of the Registered Nurse, provides clerical support to inpatient nursing unit.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to :

• Prepares patients charts, ensuring that all necessary forms are available and relevant patient information is ready for use or review daily
• Assembles charts for admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Utilizes appropriate computer systems to process physician orders for relevant patient information
• Utilizes bedtracking systems to support timely patient flow.
• Answers telephones, following Lahey Clinic's established greeting; takes and transmits messages to unit staff.
• Responds to queries from physicians, nursing staff, and visitors taking care not to disclose confidential patient information to unauthorized individuals in accordance with various Lahey policies, outside regulations and laws governing patient confidentiality including but not limited to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
• Inventories nursing unit's office supply's and orders new supplies as needed to maintain standard inventory levels. Stores supplies ensuring that areas are neat and organized. Follows department procedures related to access to non-controlled medications, such as IV solutions and vaccines, when granted access to these medications as part of the job functions.

Minimum Qualifications :

Education : Requires high school diploma or equivalent.

Licensure, Certification, Registration : None

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities : Requires basic computer skills involving standard software for recording patient information in computerized databases, proficiency in reading comprehension, spelling, and writing normally obtained in high school and on-the-job experience.

Experience : None

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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