Overview
**Description**
**Health Unit Coordinator – Surgery Oncology @ Swedish Edmonds**
**Part Time (20 Hour Week)**
**Evening Shift**
**8 Hour Shifts**
Responsible for performing general secretarial and clerical duties in the patient care areas. Interacts with patients, families and physicians and acts as a liaison among members of the health care team, patients and families. Assists the nursing staff in coordinating the activity of the unit. Oversees the orderliness of work areas and orders forms and other clerical supplies.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Swedish Edmonds and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.
**Receptionist:**
* Promptly answer telephones, intercoms, patient call lights and directs these calls to proper personnel. Acknowledge and greet visitors, patients, physicians and other employees.
* Maintains work schedules for personnel on the unit, including recording absences, hours worked. Clears changes to schedule with Nursing Office as needed by the unit.
* Maintains adequate levels of office and nursing supplies and forms. Completes requisitions as needed to maintain unit inventory.
**Unit Secretary:**
* Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, and transfer of patients. Notifies appropriate departments of patients disposition; assembles and prepares appropriate charts and forms.
* Accurately obtain, input, prepare and distribute all necessary information relative to a patient’s registration for the department in order to maintain an accurate medical record and ensure proper billing for services.
* Ensures confidentiality of patient information. May transcribe MD orders from the physician order sheet to the cardex and MAR.
* Coordinates the ordering of all diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients as directed. Coordinates appointments with respective departments. Route charts to departments as required for diagnostic and treatment procedures or consultation. Orders necessary equipment involved with patient care, i.e., back braces, splints, K-pads, alternating pressure mattress, etc.
* Efficiently and accurately schedules surgical procedures as requested for the department in automated scheduling system, coordinating procedure times within booking guidelines.
* Ensures all diet orders are accurate and ordered as required.
* Updates and maintains department files and information.
* Maintains a safe and clean working environment. Responds to emergency situations according to prescribed plans of action.
**Required qualifications:**
+ Course work in medical terminology
**Preferred qualifications:**
+ Recent experience in an acute care facility, or related work experience
**Why Join Providence?**
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our mission of improving the health and wellbeing of each patient we serve.
**About Providence**
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
**About the Team**
Swedish is the largest not-for-profit health care system in the greater Seattle area. It is comprised of five hospital campuses (First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, Edmonds and Issaquah); emergency rooms and specialty centers in Redmond (East King County) and the Mill Creek area in Everett; and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 128 primary care and specialty care locations throughout the Puget Sound. Swedish, named a LinkedIn Top Company to grow your career, employs nearly 13,000 caregivers (all employees), including nearly 1,400 providers. Whether through physician clinics, education, research and innovation or other outreach, we’re committed to caring for the people in our region and beyond.
We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
We are committed to cultural diversity and equal employment for all individuals. It is our policy to recruit, hire, promote, compensate, transfer, train, retain, terminate, and make all other employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin (including certain language use restrictions), ancestry, disability (mental and physical including HIV and AIDS), medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, age, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, and military and veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. We will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified caregiver or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.
We are a community where all people, regardless of differences, are welcome, secure, and valued. We value respect, appreciation, collaboration, diversity, and a shared commitment to serving our communities. We expect that all workforce members in our community will act in ways which reflect a commitment to and accountability for, racial and social justice and equality in the workplace. As such, we will maintain a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on any applicable legally protected status. We also expect that all workforce members will maintain a positive workplace free from any unacceptable conduct which creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
**Requsition ID:** 240058
**Company:** Swedish Jobs
**Job Category:** Clinical Administration
**Job Function:** Clinical Support
**Job Schedule:** Part time
**Job Shift:** Evening
**Career Track:** Admin Support
**Department:** 3905 SED SURGERY ONCOLOGY
**Address:** WA Edmonds 21601 76th Ave W
**Work Location:** Swedish Edmonds 21601 76th
**Pay Range:** $26.75 – $38. 27
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
Swedish Health Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
