Clerk/Messenger - 1199 | Line H0505T - BronxCare Health System : Job Details

Under direct supervision, performs general clerical work and messenger duties.

- Establish and maintain positive relationships with patients, visitors, and other employees. Interacts professionally, courteously, and appropriately with patients, visitors and other employees. Behaves in a manner consistent with maintaining and furthering a positive public perception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center and its employees.

- Contributes to and participates in the Performance/Quality Improvement activities of the assigned department. Contribution and participation includes data collection, analysis, implementation of and compliance with risk management and claims activities, support of and participation in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) teams, consistent adherence to the specific rules and regulations of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center (a) Safety and Security Policies, (b) Risk Management: Incident and Occurrence Reporting, (c) Infection Control Policies and Procedures and (d) Patient and Customer Service.

- Clerical:Performs a variety of routine clerical tasks, such as, filing of records, logs, forms, and general correspondence in neat, orderly fashion and in accordance with established filing system.

- Answers telephone, takes and relays messages, acts as Information Clerk and Receptionist.

- Performs a variety of clerical tasks, in conjunction with administrative services staff, where little knowledge of subject matter is required, such as, assisting with distribution of payroll checks, distribution of lab slips to appropriate person(s), etc.

- Assists in preparing records and other data for transmittal to other hospital departments.

- Messenger:Picks-up, sorts and distributes mail, letters, messages, packages, records, interoffice memoranda and other items and delivers them to various offices and departments of the hospital.

- Makes trips to and from outside establishments to deliver or obtain messages and packages.

- Collects outgoing mail from departments at routinely established periods during each day.

- Takes specimens to Fulton laboratory

- No experience requirements, will train on the job

- High School or GED (Required)

- Basic Computer knowledge (Required)