Description
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Person who provides assistance to one or more physicians or professionals, or to a work team, in their administrative and professional duties. He or she prepares medical records, reports and requests for analyses, operating protocols or other documents based on typed, handwritten or dictated texts and enters them on a computer application.
The Medical Secretary also prints out such documents and has them distributed to the personnel concerned. He or she may be required to deal with service users, book appointments, and receive and forward messages to personnel concerned and service users. The Medical Secretary handles the mail, writes correspondence and updates the filing of records.
SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS
In the context of a project or project collaboration, the Medical Secretary will be called upon to collaborate in the specific operational functions of activities related to medical records. He/she will collaborate with the organization's partners, affiliated organizations and any other members of the organization handling medical information. He/she will be involved directly in the digitization and classification of user information's.
Education: * High School Diploma.
Experience:
- One (1) year of relevant experience.
Knowledge and Abilities:
- Knowledge of the rules surrounding the communication of information in a health establishment is an asset;
- Knowledge of medical terminology to prepare documents and reports is a strong asset (possibility of a test);
- Knowledge of the MSSS Network and administrative regulations is an asset;
- Good knowledge of routine office work;
- Good knowledge of Office Suite (possibility of a test);
- Ability to work well under pressure and independently with minimum supervision;
- Be able to handle multiple files at the same time;
- Excellent communication skills (both written and spoken);
- Practical, attentive to detail and analytical;
- Sense of accountability, resourcefulness & vigilance;
- Teamwork skills;
- Well organized.
LANGUAGE* Fluent in English; * Fluency in Cree or French is an asset.
OTHER* May be required to work occasionally extra hours outside of the regular shift for projects;* May be required to travel occasionally within the territory and in our other points of service;* Telework may be available.
