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Heywood Healthcare · 1 month ago

Unit Secretary, MHU, 40-Hour, Day, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm, every other weekend and holiday, varied schedule, Monday - Sunday

US-MA-Gardner

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$18.50/hr - $24.41/hr

0+ years exp

Heywood Healthcare is a supportive employer that values its employees and offers competitive wages and benefits. The Unit Secretary will assist in planning, organizing, and implementing departmental activities by providing secretarial support and maintaining the physical environment for the Mental Health Unit.

Health CareHospitalMedicalMental Health

Responsibilities

Contributes to the design and development of systems that help the department run efficiently

Maintains systems that help the department run efficiently

Accurately compiles daily, weekly and monthly data and statistics as requested

Analyses data and prepares reports as directed

Performs support functions such as, answering phones, preparing materials for meetings, and typing letters and memos as requested

Ensures office supplies are maintained and available for the department to run efficiently

Greets, directs, and provides appropriate information to patients, visitors and hospital personnel

Responds to both in person and telephone customer service inquiries and needs

Provides clerical support to the Mental Health Unit Manager, Charge Nurse, and all other Mental Health Unit Staff

Supports the Department in the preparing of departmental logs, statistics, reports, and payroll as requested by the Mental Health Unit Manager

Supports the Department in the creating, copying and distributing of materials for patient care and daily activities

Provides data entry associated with patient care

Enters patient care orders into the computer as soon as they are received

Supports the Mental Health Unit Department in coordinating, through ancillary services, patient testing

Assists the Mental Health Unit Department Manager in the daily scheduling of staff

Assists in replacing unscheduled absences to meet department needs

Supports the Mental Health Unit Department in completion of patient charts after they are discharged

Organizes discharged patient charts and follows up with the Mental Health Unit Staff to assure that the chart has been completed, to ensure that Mental Health Unit Medical Records Guidelines are met

Conduct safety checks to ensure unit safety and patient safety

Delivers discharged patient charts to Medical Records within two days of discharge