Medical Office Assistant / Receptionist, Urgent Primary Care Centre - Abbotsford

Salary : The salary range for this position is CAD $25.54 - $27.22 / hour.

Job Summary

We are hiring for a Relief Part Time Medical Office Assistant / Receptionist to join our Urgent Primary Care team in Abbotsford, BC.

Fraser Health values diversity in the workforce and strives 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.

Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields. For eligible employees, Fraser Health offers opportunities for career growth and advancement and competitive benefits, including but not limited, to :

• Start earning up to four weeks of vacation in your first year.
• Comprehensive 100% employer paid benefits.
• Immediate enrollment in a defined municipal pension plan.
• 87% maternity top-up.
• 50% subsidy on TransLink passes.

Come join our team!

Detailed Overview

Reporting to the Manager, Clinical Operations or designate, this position provides administrative day‑to‑day support to the Urgent Primary Care Centre (UPCC or Centre), and as the first point of contact with clients and their families, provides a key role in ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for all individuals through a positive, customer‑service oriented and client‑focused approach. The Centre provides urgent care to clients and longitudinal primary care to unattached vulnerable clients in the assigned area. The Centre provides clients, families and caregivers with ease of access to timely, person‑centred, continuous and culturally safe quality health services. Performs duties such as front desk reception interacting directly with clients who have highly complex medical and social needs, registering new clients and booking appointments and referrals, establishing and maintaining charts and chart organization including requests, maintaining database(s) and maintenance of electronic client case load, typing material utilizing word processing software, setting up and maintaining the filing systems, processing incoming and outgoing mail, faxes, reports / records and internal and courier documents, arranging meetings / special functions, and operating office equipment. As a member of an interdisciplinary team, ensures clients and their family members are supported in navigating the health care system.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Education and Experience : Grade 12, plus completion of a Medical Office Assistant diploma plus one year of recent related office / clerical experience or an equivalent combination of education training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

Ability to take initiative.

About Fraser Health

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 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. 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.

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