Job Purpose: The unit secretary performs order entry, answers phones and patient call bells, greets and directs visitors.
Minimum Requirements:
Education & Training: A High school diploma/GED equivalent.
Required Licenses/Certifications: BLS preferred
Work Experience: Minimum of 2-year clerical experience in a hospital setting preferred
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Perform general receptionist and clerical duties in order to facilitate efficient functioning of the nursing unit.
- Perform primary check-ups of the patients and makes sure that they are admitted to the concerned doctors
- These health unit coordinators also schedule appointments of the patients and make sure that the hospital is functioning smoothly
- Hand over test reports to the doctors
- Perform certain clerical duties such as maintaining important papers and records of the patients
- Order equipment and infrastructure required in the hospital
- Keep a track of the number of patients admitted to the hospital on a particular day and the collects of the hospital
- Help the patients in filling the hospital forms and understand the procedures of the hospital
- Perform other duties as assigned