Unit Secretary

Description

Lifepoint Rehabilitation, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, is building a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in west side of Jacksonville, North Florida Rehabilitation Hospital. This two-story, 60,582-square-foot hospital, expected to open in 2024, will sit on 5.55 acres at southwest Normandy Boulevard and Interstate 295. The new hospital will have all private rooms and focus on acute rehabilitation for patients who suffer from stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, multiple trauma, amputation and other injuries or disorders.

It will also feature multidisciplinary therapy gymnasiums with therapeutic technologies that include augmented-reality balance training, therapy bionics and a full-body exoskeleton. If you are an enthusiastic individual seeking an environment dedicated to superior patient care and an organization with a strong mission to serve our community, we invite you to apply

Our Benefits:

* Tuition assistance/reimbursement
* Low nurse-to-patient ratios
* Expansive benefit package
* Professional development and advancement opportunities
* Targeted approach to career development
* Strong interdisciplinary teamwork opportunities
* Superior quality patient outcomes
* Supportive leadership and culture
* CEU Support
* State-of-the-art equipment

JOB SUMMARY:

Supports nursing department operations by assisting with administrative duties such as greeting visitors, scheduling appointments, transferring phone calls, admitting and discharging patients, communicating and coordinating between physicians, nursing staff and other hospital staff. May transcribe physician orders and file paperwork. May assist with patient care as trained.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

* Ensures visitors are acknowledged quickly and helps direct them and answer any questions.
* Initiates medical record upon admission. Maintains said record during patient stay, and closes the record upon patient discharge within the electronic medical record.
* Initiates follow-up regarding doctors' orders.
* Ensures that all patient and special charges are processed.
* Serves as unit receptionist for incoming and outgoing calls and visitor information.
* Interacts frequently with unit personnel, physicians, visitors, patients' families and other ancillary hospital personnel for the purpose of giving and receiving information.
* Has contact with patients. Duties may include answering patient lights, and fulfilling patient request for non-care items, attend appointments with patients, working in the café. Requires professional, courteous, and helpful manner in all contacts with customers.
* Position involves multi-tasking in a high stress environment. Requires constant mental alertness and the ability to calmly and accurately perform duties when subjected to frequent and varied interruptions.
* Must have the ability to exercise judgment and initiative in the resolution of problems encountered.
* Ensures that all patient and unit equipment, supplies and procedures are ordered and received,
* Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

* High school diploma required, with two years of college level education preferred.
* Computer experience required.
* Prior experience in a hospital setting is preferred.
* Must have the ability to work with all levels of medical personnel, patients and families,
* Ability to speak and write concisely with knowledge of medical terminology desirable.

North Florida Rehabilitation Hospital will have all private rooms and focus on acute rehabilitation for patients who suffer from stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, multiple trauma, amputation and other injuries or disorders. We will also feature multidisciplinary therapy gymnasiums outfitted with the latest therapeutic technologies, including augmented-reality balance training, therapy bionics and a full-body exoskeleton. Additionally, it will include a therapeutic courtyard with exterior amenities to support patient care and help patients return to daily living activities.