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Smilow Cancer Hospital · 2 days ago

Verdi 5 West Unit Clerk

New Haven, CT

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

1+ years exp

Smilow Cancer Hospital is dedicated to providing high-quality patient care and support. The Unit Clerk will perform clerical duties to support the department, including greeting patients, scheduling appointments, and maintaining a clean and organized environment.

Hospital & Health Care

Responsibilities

Acts as receptionist, greeting and interacting with patients, visitors and others

Greets all patients and visitors in a courteous and professional manner

Performs various unit clerical tasks including mailing, messages, record-keeping, typing, and filing

Distributes mail, utilizes paging system, takes and delivers messages for unit personnel

Handles patient appointment system

Schedules patient appointments in coordination with the clinical staff

Interacts with all others in a manner consistent with excellent hospital public relations

Demonstrates professional and courteous manner during interactions with patients, hospital staff, physicians and their office staff, and with all other contacts

Cleanliness and safety

Maintains safe, clean, and organized environment in all clerical areas

Patients' Rights

Respects patients' rights at all times identified within the institution

Supplies/ordering, errands

Assists in maintaining supplies at appropriate inventory levels

Emergency situations

Performs efficiently in emergency situations as directed

Information/in-service participation

Appropriately seeks information or assistance from administrator, or other resource people

Qualification

Administrative clerical experiencePatient care environmentComputer usageCommunication skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent GED is required

One (1) to Two (2) years administrative clerical experience preferably in a patient care environment- or- current active YNHHS internal experience covering Business Associate/ Unit Associate responsibilities

Prior computer usage strongly preferred