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Heywood Healthcare · 3 months ago

Unit Secretary, Emergency Department, Per Diem, Variable Shifts

US-MA-Gardner

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

Heywood Healthcare is a provider of healthcare services that values its employees and offers competitive wages and benefits. The Unit Secretary will assist the Emergency Department manager by providing clerical support, managing communications, and ensuring that supplies are properly ordered and stocked.

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Responsibilities

Provides clerical support to clinical staff (e.g. maintains unit files, organizes patient care record, prepares admission and pre-op charts, etc)

Under direction of nurse, makes all appropriate arrangements for outside services, transfers, and ambulance services in a timely manner

Appropriately prioritizes tasks adjusting to changing workload as necessary (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, recognizes emergency situations, etc.)

Maintains clean and safe work environment (identifies and/or removes safety hazards)

Performs thorough, timely, and accurate transcription of physicians’ orders (including entering into Meditech OE module where utilized)

Performs support functions to manager/director such as payroll, copying, typing, etc

Participates in the learning for colleagues and self (e.g. assist with orientation of new staff in-services, educational programs, etc.)

Completes demographics on the charge card so that supplies are restocked

Inventories, orders and stocks all supplies to ensure rooms are ready for patient care treatment