Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $28.31 - $28.31 / hour Why Fraser Health?:

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby.

The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

• Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces
• New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine and mental health patients
• New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces
• New acute care tower with 160 beds
• New medical imaging department
• New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology and plastics specialties.

We are committed to staff wellness and planetary health and have active working groups to support these initiatives. In addition, we value career advancement and offer professional development and education opportunities.

We are currently looking to fill a Relief Full Time opportunity for a Operating Unit Clerk to join Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C.

Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including:

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes
• Additional employee discounts and perks available
• Eligibility based on employment status

Detailed Overview: Under the direction of the Manager, Clinical Services or designate, performs a variety of clerical, reception, and statistical support functions for the Operating Room area. Responsibilities:

• Performs reception duties such as answering the telephone, receiving/relaying messages, taking messages, answering routine inquiries or referring calls as appropriate.

• Books emergency cases, completes related paperwork and notifies appropriate department, physicians, anaesthetists and staff, as directed.

• Retrieves required charts from the units, attaches documents such as medication orders and laboratory reports, forwards charts for review by anaesthetist and returns charts to appropriate units, in accordance with established procedures.

• Enters information on individual surgery into the information system. Distributes copies of the slates on the unit as established. Provides information on surgery, medical and nursing staff location, as required.

• Participates in the efficient running of the unit by providing information such as patient or surgery location and/or coordinating patient related services such as scheduling for diagnostic procedures, patient transportation, blood bank. Notifies appropriate areas of adjustments to the O.R. slate.

• Performs various related clerical duties such as retrieving daily, monthly and quarterly slates, maintaining/updating manual and computerized records, and compiling statistics.

• Monitors and maintains unit stationery and supply levels, prepares documentation, and requisitions stationery supplies from stores and for STAT supplies from areas such as Pharmacy; completes equipment repair or maintenance orders as directed.

• Orients new staff and students to unit by demonstrating procedures, answering questions, and explaining unit organization and layout.

• Performs clerical duties such as typing, filing and photocopying.

• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications: Education and Experience

Grade 12, medical terminology graduation from a recognized Nursing Unit Clerk program, plus one years recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to type at 40 w.p.m.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal effectively with others.
• Ability to organize work.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment.