| Reference #: | #023-2025 |
| Position Type: | Full-time |
| Location: | Strathroy, ON |
| Date Posted: | Jan 31, 2025 |
Job Description
JOB POSTING
Middlesex Hospital AllianceStrathroy Middlesex General Hospital Site
Posting #023-2025
FULL-TIME UNIT CLERK OR / SAME DAY CARE
Job Description:
The OR /SDC Clerk will provide administrative support within the perioperative services department, ensuring smooth operations and effective coordination between patients, healthcare providers, and support staff. This role requires a strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
Main Job Duties:
Job Qualifications:
*The MHA is a FRAGRANCE REDUCED environment*
Qualified individuals interested in this opportunity may submit a resume by e-mail to humanresources@mha.tvh.ca.
Internal candidates are asked to apply no later than February 7, 2025.
We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and inclusive work environment that inspires respect. MHA is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2+ persons. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services.
Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (Criminal Records and Judicial Matters Check/Vulnerable Sector Check) completed in the last 12 months (original document) prior to commencing employment.
*Accommodations are available on request for interviews and other selection processes*
Middlesex Hospital AllianceStrathroy Middlesex General Hospital Site
Posting #023-2025
FULL-TIME UNIT CLERK OR / SAME DAY CARE
Job Description:
The OR /SDC Clerk will provide administrative support within the perioperative services department, ensuring smooth operations and effective coordination between patients, healthcare providers, and support staff. This role requires a strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
Main Job Duties:
- Create master schedules for multiple teams that support department needs and complexities.
- Prepare schedules and vacation planners following MHA non-union polices and the ONA collective agreements.
- Cover immediate and future vacancies, prepare staffing boards, manage schedulers and the master OR calendar.
- Complete payroll following MHA non-union polices and the ONA collective agreements.
- Manage booking slips (elective and board cases), OR bookings and all related pre-admission appointments ensuring proper alignment with surgeons, anesthesia teams, and other relevant departments.
- Communicate with MDRD with pick cards, scheduling and changes including add-on cases or order changes.
- Communicate with diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, patient registration, health records, ambulatory care and physio to coordinate care.
- Support the charge nurse with required schedules and status reports.
- Support Quality Improvement Decision Support Specialist with statistical data.
- Communicate with patients to confirm preoperative instructions and assist with any queries regarding surgery and hospital policies.
- Serve as a point of contact for patients, medical staff, and other hospital departments to relay important information and provide support as needed.
- Maintain accurate patient records, including surgical schedules, consent forms, and medical records.
Job Qualifications:
- At time of hire, must provide vaccination records or proof of immunity against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chicken pox). Must provide documented proof of two COVID 19 vaccinations.
- At time of hire, must provide documentation of the Tuberculosis skin testing within the previous 12 months.
- Secondary School Diploma
- Recent clerk experience in peri-operative services, outpatient-setting experience preferred.
- Proficiency with skills in a “windows” based environment including Excel, Word and Access
- Experience with Gateway Reporting, Cerner, Surginet
- Medical Terminology course preferred
- Experience with wait times, QBP funding
- Experience with booking OR cases, pre-admit clinics and multi-practitioner appointments
- Experience with staffing, building schedules scheduling, payroll procedures, knowledge of ONA Collective agreement and nonunion policies and procedures
- Excellent clerical skills
- Demonstrated ability to assess concurrent demands, set priorities, organize work and maintain accuracy and concentration during periods of high activity.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal, communication and critical thinking skills.
- Demonstrated communication skills for patient care and multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of the health care team.
- Understanding and use of good body mechanics. Ability to sit for extended periods.
- Demonstrated Excellence in Attendance
*The MHA is a FRAGRANCE REDUCED environment*
Qualified individuals interested in this opportunity may submit a resume by e-mail to humanresources@mha.tvh.ca.
Internal candidates are asked to apply no later than February 7, 2025.
We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and inclusive work environment that inspires respect. MHA is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2+ persons. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services.
Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (Criminal Records and Judicial Matters Check/Vulnerable Sector Check) completed in the last 12 months (original document) prior to commencing employment.
*Accommodations are available on request for interviews and other selection processes*