Perioperative Booking Clerk Jobs

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Req ID: 157113
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Northern Zone, Aberdeen Hospital
Department: OPNZ PERI General OR ARH
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly PT ( 50% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: CUPE Admin Professionals Position
Posting Closing Date: 1-Jun-23
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.
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About The Opportunity
Reporting to the Health Services Manager – Perioperative Services and CSPD, the Perioperative Booking Clerk, in collaboration with the charge nurse and Assistant Manager, is responsible for ensuring that OR theaters are utilized appropriately in accordance to OR block distribution and Patient Access Registry Nova Scotia (PARNS) with consideration of the available human, financial and physical resources. In collaboration with the Surgical Preadmission Clinic (SPAC) coordinates the client’s surgical journey to ensure that the client has had the appropriate work up completed. The OR booking clerk works with departments and units that impact OR utilization to ensure that booking times are appropriate in order to facilitate smooth flow of the OR day.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Strong knowledge of multi-disciplinary job functions preferred
• Experience in a healthcare facility preferred
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with change management and conflict resolution would be an asset
• Successful Applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills required
• Demonstrated formal training and working experience using Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Internet) as well as Meditech ORM required, PARNS, SharePoint
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
• One to two years experience working with scheduling and/or booking of patients or like tasks required
• Medical terminology course is required
• Knowledge of surgical procedures would be an asset
• Successful completion of Post Secondary education with a focus on office administration procedures required

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours

• 1100-1500 hrs daily
• Permanent Part-time (50%) position, 37.5 Hours Bi-Weekly

Compensation and Incentives
$21.73 - $24.31 Hourly
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.
Preferred candidates must be able to demonstrate proof of primary series of COVID -19 vaccine at time of hire.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.
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