Unit Clerk

Alberta Health Services' core values - compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety - guide our actions and behaviors to achieve excellent patient and family-centered healthcare for all Albertans. You must be committed to our Core Values to pursue this exciting opportunity in Long Term Care at Big Country Hospital. Reporting to the Site Manager, the Unit Clerk position is responsible for delivering high quality and quantity patient care and customer service. Collaboration with the Unit Clerk working Acute Care/ED is expected. If you are a Unit Clerk who loves the rural lifestyle and working with the elderly, then this position in Oyen might be just for you! Big Country Hospital’s Long Term Care has 30 beds in a beautiful facility with a large dining room, solarium and attached garden area. Long Term Care in Oyen has a comfort/palliative care focus. We work based on a multidisciplinary team approach providing family centered care to residents and clients. Oyen is an oil/gas, ranching/farming community with a multi-cultural flavor. Residents of Oyen enjoy a wide range of indoor and outdoor recreational activities including camping, boating, fishing/ice fishing and rodeo, 4H club, and horse-back riding, just to name a few.

As a Unit Clerk, you will be responsible for the efficient flow of communication between health professionals, departments, patients and families while maintaining confidentiality of patient information. You will also be responsible for a variety of administrative tasks which may include reception, greeting and directing visitors, patients and health professionals, maintaining patient records and charts, transcribing and processing physician orders as well as scheduling patient tests and/or treatments. You will also be responsible for performing a range of administrative activities in support of the unit.

Completion of Grade 12 or equivalent. Completion of an accredited Unit Clerk Course or equivalent training program.

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention.

Unit Clerk Certificate; Connect Care experience; iRequest experience.