Clerical Assistant - Med Surg

About the role

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Clerical Assistant for our Med Surg Unit located within the Edgewood Hospital.

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and maintain the clerical functions and duties of a designated unit or program.
• Utilize customer service skills when greeting patients/visitors and answering telephone.
• Complete worklist tasks triggered by physician orders or nurse-generated tasks under the direct supervision of licensed nursing personnel.
• Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
• Utilize customer service skills when addressing patients/visitors, physicians and co-workers face to face and on the telephone.
• Organize and perform clerical