Health Unit Aide, Urgent Primary Care Centre-Abbotsford

Are you passionate about playing an essential role in ensuring the delivery of quality and timely care of clients ? Are you looking to bring your extensive Medical office skills to a rewarding role? If you have answered “yes”, we want you to keep reading to explore your career with us!

 We currently have an exciting opportunity for a  Part-Time Health Unit Aide  to provide support to our Urgent  Primary Care centre  located in beautiful Abbotsford, B.C

 Urgent and Primary Care Centre are medical facilities that provide ongoing medical care and/or timely care for urgent, non-life-threatening injuries and illnesses that should be seen by a health care provider within 12 to 24 hours but do not require the level of service or expertise found in an emergency department.  They are part of the primary and community care system with a focus on a unified approach to team-based care to wrap services around our patients.Learn more   click here

 Abbotsford is located in the heart of the Fraser Valley, one hour (70km) southeast of Vancouver’s city centre. Abbotsford boasts a variety of exciting activities for everyone with easy access to downhill skiing, white water rafting, sturgeon fishing, hot springs, camping, mountain-top hiking, waterslides, theme parks, scenic gardens, wineries and breweries, concerts, nightlife, shopping and much more click heree

Experience some of the benefits of working with us, including:

• Career advancement and growth opportunities
• Comprehensive health benefits including extended health and dental 100% paid by us, that cover you and your whole family.
• Health and well-being resources, including an employee and family assistance program.
• Generous vacation time: eligible employees can earn up to four (4) weeks of vacation per year, with the possibility of accruing extra time based on there tenor with us.
• Access to exclusive staff discounts and perks with various partners including, a Transit Incentive Program
• A defined pension plan.

Join our team at Fraser Health- where cared for people ,care for people.

Reporting to the Manager, Clinical Operations or designate, this position plays an essential role in ensuring the delivery of quality and timely care, including efficient flow of clients through the Urgent Primary Care Centre ("UPCC" or "Centre"), maintaining a focus on immediate aspects of client-centered care such as client comforts, and ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for all individuals. Maintains supply inventories, equipment and clinic rooms for the Centre, and performs duties such as preparing clinic rooms, ordering, maintaining and organizing medical/surgical inventories and supply areas, cleaning equipment and instruments, and delivery and processing of samples and lab specimens. The Centre provides urgent care to clients and longitudinal primary care to unattached vulnerable clients residing in the city of Surrey, to provide clients, families and caregivers with ease of access to timely, person-centred, continuous and culturally safe quality health services. As a member of an interdisciplinary team, ensures clients and their family members are supported in navigating the health care system.

Education and Experience

Grade 12, plus completion of a Medical Office Assistant certificate plus one year of recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Knowledge of nursing equipment.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Ability to type at 40 wpm. 
• Ability to work independently and in cooperation with others.
• Ability to organize and prioritize.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport with clients.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Conflict resolution and crisis intervention skills.
• Ability to observe and recognize changes in clients.
• Knowledge of general office procedures.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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