Clerical Assistant - Med Surg

Engage with us for your next career opportunity. Right Here. Job Type: Regular Scheduled Hours: 16 💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St.

Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. 🌟 Benefits That Support You We invest in you — personally and professionally.

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• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility Job Summary: St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Clerical Assistant for our Med Surg Unit located within the Edgewood Hospital. Schedule: One weekday evening shift (3:00PM-11:00PM) and every other weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Job Description: The best career starts here. The Clerical Assistant is responsible for coordinating and maintaining the clerical functions and duties of a designated unit or program. Utilizes customer service skills when greeting patient/visitors and answering telephone. Demonstrates the ability to complete worklist tasks triggered by physician orders or nurse generated tasks under the direct supervision of licensed nursing personnel. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background. Utilizes customer service skills when addressing patients/visitors, physicians and co-workers face to face and on the telephone. Organizes and performs clerical duties in Epic related to admission, discharges, and transfers of a patient to assure pertinent data is recorded for present and future use. Complete worklist tasks triggered by physician orders or nurse-generated tasks. Updates and maintains patient records as prescribed by the hospital and unit policy to allow functional use by nursing and medical staff. Functions as information source for medical and nursing staff, patients, and visitors. Relays written and verbal communication and will be responsible for reporting all pertinent patient/family observations to the professional staff. Performs activities designed to support unit as directed such as ensuring compliance with environmental standards by performing light housekeeping duties and participation in performance improvement activities including compliance checks, data accuracy checks, etc. Assists in maintaining adequate amount of supplies on the nursing unit and obtains other items as needed from Central Supply and Par Level. Performs other duties as assigned. Education, Credentials, Licenses: High school diploma or GED Specialized Knowledge: Basic computer literacy Kind and Length of Experience: Successful work employment history Prior clerical experience including phone etiquette Data entry FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.