Unit Coordinator, Cardiology Unit (Evening)

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

Under general supervision of the Registered Nurse, provides clerical support to the inpatient nursing unit.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Prepares patients charts, ensuring that all necessary forms are available and relevant patient information is ready for use or review daily 

• Assembles charts for admissions, transfers, and discharges.

• Utilizes appropriate computer systems to process physician orders for relevant patient information

• Utilizes bedtracking systems to support timely patient flow.

• Answers telephones, following Lahey Clinic’s established greeting; takes and transmits messages to unit staff. 

• Responds to queries from physicians, nursing staff, and visitors taking care not disclose confidential patient information to unauthorized individuals in accordance with various Lahey policies, outside regulations and laws governing patient confidentiality including but not limited to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

• Inventories nursing unit’s office supply’s and orders new supplies as needed to maintain standard inventory levels.  Stores supplies ensuring that areas are neat and organized.  Follows department procedures related to access to non-controlled medications, such as IV solutions and vaccines, when granted access to these medications as part of the job functions. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education:  Requires high school diploma or equivalent.
• Licensure, Certification, Registration:  None
• Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:   Requires basic compter skills involving standard software for recording patient information in computerized databases, proficiency in reading comprehension, spelling, and writing normally obtained in high school and on-the-job experience.
• Experience:  None

Pay Range:

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.  Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.