Patient Registration Clerk – Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Title of the Job: Patient Registration Clerk

Location: Winnipeg, MB

Job Description: Requisition ID: 368144Position Number: 20033517Posting End Date: October 19, 2024City: WinnipegEmployer: Winnipeg Regional Health AuthoritySite: Grace HospitalDepartment / Unit: Patient Registration – GGhJob Stream: Non-ClinicalUnion: CUPEAnticipated Start Date – End Date: 10/25/2024 – IndefiniteReason for Term: Other LeaveFTE: 0.70Anticipated Shift: EveningsWork Arrangement: In PersonDaily Hours Worked: 7.75Annual Base Hours: 1950Salary: $19.763, $20.355, $20.966, $21.594, $22.244, $22.910Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We’re united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.Position OverviewReceives patients who are being registered to an inpatient or outpatient program. Obtains all required documentation to pre-admit, register and assign beds to a patient according to Departmental and Hospital policies and procedures. Updates the ADT system by entering transfers, discharges and other edit information. Clerical duties include answering the telephones, responding to patient and visitor inquiries, and faxing information to internal and external sources as defined by policy. Other responsibilities include assigning beds, picking up and delivering charts, providing coverage for Communications Clerk, sending chart request information to Health Records on days and evenings and pulling charts from Health Records as required.Experience

• Experience as a ward clerk, Unit Assistant, Secretary or Receptionist in a clinical area is deemed to meet the definition of related.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• Grade 12 education.
• Successful completion of a Medical Office Assistant Program from a recognized College, Unit Clerk.
• Certificate program, or the first year of a recognized Health Information Management Professional program required; OR successful completion of a recognized medical terminology course, PLUS one year related office experience preferably in a Medical Record or Patient Registration Department, required.

Qualifications and Skills

• Working knowledge of patient data systems such as EPR (Electronic Patient Record) and ADT (Admission, Discharge, Transfer) System preferred.
• Keyboarding speed of 45 wpm.
• Ability to cope in stressful situations and ability to cope with the fluctuating work load.
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication in the English language required.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to function as an effective member of an interdisciplinary team, including collaboration, team work and good communication skills.

This term position may end earlier as outlined in your collective agreement.This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Company Name: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

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