Unit Clerk for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Nights

About the role

The Unit Clerk/Receptionist performs clerical and receptionist functions for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Responsibilities

• Prepares and compiles records on the nursing unit.
• Coordination of unit communication systems (phones, nurse call system, hospital information systems).
• Relaying information; maintaining optimal public relations.
• Aiding in maintaining supplies, equipment, and overall unit environment.
• Other duties as assigned by the Unit Leadership.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required for those hired on or after 6/1/2017.
• One to three months related experience and/or training preferred.
• Previous healthcare experience preferred.
• Ability to successfully complete the organization's competency requirements for English, writing, spelling, and reading comprehension.
• Ability to successfully complete the hospital's orientation, core orientation, and unit-specific orientation.
• Working knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to input and retrieve data from the organization's computerized systems.
• The organizational skills to maintain records and orderly filing systems and to manage multiple processes simultaneously.
• Effective communication skills with patients, visitors, and all members of the care delivery team.

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate effectively with patients, visitors, and all members of the care delivery team.
• Work which produces very high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g. CRT work between 70 and 90 percent of the time, and work involving extremely close tolerances and considerable hand/eye coordination for sustained periods of time.
• Regular lifting of light-weight objects (i.e., 20 pounds or less) and assisting with heavier tasks such as assisting in lifting and moving patients.
• Maintains unsupervised access to the unit medication room(s) for stocking and/or retrieving supplies.
• Functioning in Patient Safety Assistant role NOT required in the following departments: 5102 Infusion Center (BMH), 5900 Endoscopy Unit (BMH), 6800 OB Labor/Delivery Unit (BMH), 6830 OB Mother/Baby Unit (BMH), 5700 Surgery (BMH), 5712 Preoperative Surgery (BMH), 5755 Bronson Outpatient Surgery Center - Waln (BMH), 6000 NICU (BMH), 5800 PACU (BMH), 5110 Anticoagulation Clinic (BMH), 6430 Prep & Recovery Unit (BMH).