Unit Clerk (Behavioral Health Center)

Overview

The Unit Clerk position performs routine clerical and administrative duties related to the day-to-day operation on a secured adult psychiatric unit of the Behavioral Health Center.  Work involves contact with patients, their families, and hospital staff.

Main Responsibilities include :

• Answers telephones, takes messages and responds to inquiries for routine information.
• Provides assistance to hospital staff, patients and their families / visitors, providing information and directions.
• Distributes patient rights booklets and informs patients of same and ensures documentation.
• Completes and processes forms, form letters and other records, charts and activity logs in accordance with established procedures and attention to accuracy.
• Responsible for preparing, compiling, maintaining and reviewing patient charts and records.
• Re-orders supplies and arranges for repair of equipment.
• Uses computer applications or other automated systems such as spreadsheets, word processing, calendar, e-mail and database software in performing work assignments.

Position is Monday to Friday, 8 : 00am-4 : 30pm.

Requirements / Qualifications

Qualifications :

Hospital / Program Description

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.

The Behavioral Health Center, located on WMC's Valhalla campus, has been a leading provider of psychiatric services since 1929, offering a full spectrum of inpatient, outpatient, community and emergency care for adults, children, and adolescents.

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Unit Clerk (Behavioral Health Center)