HEALTH CLERK: NEONATAL ICU PRN
 MU Health Care | |
 United States, Missouri, Columbia | |
| 1 Hospital Drive (Show on map) | |
 Apr 18, 2025 | |
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Shift:PRN as needed, must work at least 24 hours in 6 week schedule period, current department need is for Mondays- can be days, evenings, or nights. May be required to work some weekends or holidays.
MU Health Care is looking for a dynamic and organized individual to join our team as a Health Clerk. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with exceptional guest relations skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently. We seek someone who is detail-oriented, flexible, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Your role will be crucial in maintaining a positive and orderly unit atmosphere, supporting both staff and patients with courtesy and respect. If you are a team player who is passionate about contributing to a patient-centered care environment, we encourage you to apply and become a vital part of our healthcare community. At MU Health Care, we have an inspired, hard-working and collaborative environment driven by our mission to save and improve lives. We believe anything is possible and rally around solutions. We celebrate innovation and offer opportunities to be a part of something bigger - to have a voice and role in the work that is serving our community and changing the field of medicine. Our academic health system - the only in mid-Missouri - is home to multiple hospitals, including the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and region's only Children's Hospital as well as over 90 specialty clinics. Here, you can define your career among our many clinical and nonclinical positions - with growth, opportunity and support every step of the way. Learn more about MU Health Care. Learn more about living in mid-Missouri.
Provide administrative and clerical support for units. Serve as the computer and office equipment resource or super user for areas. Additional clerical and administrative duties include but are not limited to answering phones, taking and relaying messages, ensuring follow-up as needed, monitoring and promptly answering call lights using positive guest relations skills, which includes coordinating appropriate staff assistance as required, coordinating, maintaining, and restocking unit supplies, which includes coordinating and completing retrieval and delivery, and serving as the unit resource person and communicator by maintaining line of sight on staff locations, equipment, and supplies. Coordinate paperwork for the unit, including admissions/discharge logs, census logs, patient medical records, and other unit-specific documentation. Maintain accurate and timely entry of information into the computerized bed-management system. Collect patient and unit data as assigned. Maintain appropriate medical records and other forms needed during computer downtime. Organize workload and manage multiple tasks while maintaining a neat and clean patient environment in the unit station and common areas. Utilize principles of Patient Family Centered Care to provide exemplary customer service. Establish and ensure good rapport with patients, guests, and staff. Monitor visitors on the unit and alert staff to possible problems and security issues. Assist with patient support and safety monitoring tasks that do not require hands-on clinical patient care, including observing assigned patients for safety, including suicidal precautions as outlined by the RN, reporting safety concerns to clinical staff, and redirecting patients until assistance arrives, meal-tray set up, monitoring safety including restraints, mobility, medical devices, that therapies remain, and for oral intake difficulties. Educate and train new health clerks, students, and other staff, related to health clerk activities and responsibilities. Contribute to and support a positive learning environment. Perform other duties as delegated by nursing staff and unit management as needed in routine and emergent situations. May complete unit/department-specific duties and expectations as outlined in department documents. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS High school diploma or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities can be acquired. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. This position is very active and may require ambulating, remaining in a stationary position and positioning self to reach and/or move objects above the shoulders and below the knees. The employee may frequently lift and/or move objects up to 10 lbs and occasionally move objects up to 25 lbs. This role may also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. This position is in a health care facility open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Rotating shifts as well as holiday and work during inclement weather will be required. Equal Employment Opportunity The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer. | |