Unit Secretary- Behavioral Health

Position Title Unit Secretary - Behavioral Health, Strawberry Hill Campus Position Summary The Unit Secretary acts as a liaison, greets visitors, patients, and health care team members in a courteous, customer-focused manner. Ensures patient charts are organized, accurate, and complete per hospital chart order. Initiates breakdown of chart and completes discharge checklist. Monitors electronic records for new orders, consults for completion, accurate treatment teams, patient status, new results, and advance directives. Completes order entry for equipment, advance diet, and transport orders. Orders patient supplies and unit equipment as needed. Monitors and updates inventory and downtime bin. Enters dietary intake. Assists with safety and environmental rounds, monitors cleanliness, and assists with infection prevention efforts. Responsibilities Answers telephone and triages calls to unit, calls for consults, support, and ancillary departments as needed. Assists in monitoring patient disposition at all times as they leave or return to unit, using log. Assists with non-patient care needs as requested by unit staff (turning off lights, delivering mail, delivering flowers, etc.). Completes needed filing. Ensures call light system is updated with patient assignments each shift. Informs Admitting of discharges immediately upon patient leaving unit if needed. May be required to provide constant observation. Routinely maintains work area in a neat and orderly fashion. Schedules follow-up appointments for patients. Transports items to ancillary departments as needed and picks up any items if required. Required Education & Experience High School Graduate or GED. Completion of Medical Terminology class preferred. Employment Details Type: Full time Job Requisition ID: R-54325 Equal Employment Opportunity The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using the email View email address on click.appcast.io. Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP. #J-18808-Ljbffr