Supports the assigned unit by performing clerical duties such as secretarial, receptionist, and other designated activities. Provides indirect care following physician and nursing orders to achieve the highest standards of age/developmentally specific care.
Position Highlights:
- Shift Schedule: Full-Time, Day shift 7p-7a
- Location: Winston-Salem
- Department: Labor and Delivery
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
- Completion of a unit secretary course or equivalent preferred.
- Clerical experience preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clerical Duties: Complete clerical duties for patient scheduling, admissions, procedures, transfers, surgeries, discharges, and deaths under the direction of a Registered Nurse.
- Call Handling: Handle and screen incoming calls, transmit messages as necessary.
- Safe Environment: Contribute to a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment for patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers by following established procedures.
- Communication: Ensure complete, confidential, accurate, and timely communication of patient information.
- Data Entry: Complete requisitions, data entry, and nursing communication forms.
- Effective Communication: Communicate effectively with the team, co-workers, patients, and family members.
- Professional Growth: Take personal responsibility and initiative for performance, professional growth, and development.
- Efficiency: Conduct work in an organized, quiet, efficient manner, and demonstrate the ability to cope with stressful situations.
- Team Support: Complete assigned unit responsibilities and assist other staff members in completing their duties when time permits.
- Age-Specific Care: Provide age/developmentally appropriate patient care following guidelines for the specific age groups served.
Skills/Qualifications:
- Basic computer skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to perform effectively with frequent workload changes and competing demands.
- Ability to develop transcription skills.
Work Environment:
- Interaction with multiple levels of staff and departments.
- Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances.
- Possible exposure to infections and contagious diseases.
- Subject to multiple interruptions.
- Long periods on a computer.
- Possible exposure to cleaning agents/chemicals.
- Occasionally subject to irregular hours
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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