Job Description:

Under the direction of nursing leadership, the Health Unit Coordinator facilitates unit organization and patient care by assisting in the coordination of patient, nursing, physician, and other health care provider office and clerical activities.

Job Essentials

Patient Care Support Activities:

• Assists with admission, discharge, and transfer of patients.

• Answer patient call lights.

• Schedules tests and treatments as ordered.

• May provide access control to visitor entrance to secure units.

• May also be responsible for telemetry duties.

• When working on a clinical unit, may be required to take medications from the delivery system to the RN.

Clerical Activities:

• Answers unit telephones and disseminates information appropriately.

• Processes, organizes, files and maintains patient and unit records.

• Transcribes physician orders.

• Acts as unit receptionist.

• May organize, stock and maintain supplies on the unit.

Collaboration:

Performs functions delegated by nursing manager and charge nurse.

Demonstrate effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, and organization.

Provides excellent customer service when responding to patient/family requests, physicians, nursing and other ancillary services.

Minimum Qualifications

• Clerical or customer service experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a secretary in a hospital

• Experience using electronic medical record

• Experience with word processing software.

• Basic understanding of medical terminology.

Physical Requirements:

Ongoing need for employee to see to utilize a wide variety of information including organizing and completing documentation and forms, accessing and entering computer information, and identify needs and emergencies.

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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate computers and type information, handle documents and files, and retrieve equipment and supplies.

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Expected to bend, lift, and carry patient files, documents, equipment, and supplies.

Anticipated job posting close date:

06/27/2024

Location:

Primary Childrens at Wasatch Canyons

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$17.60 - $22.88

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/employee-benefits/) , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers (http://www.sclhealthbenefits.org) ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/diversity/) .

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.