The story
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) is Tanzania’s largest local provider of disability and rehabilitation services in the country. We’re committed to not only empowering people with disabilities and their families, improving their quality of life, and ensuring access to medical and rehabilitative treatment, but crucially, preventing disabilities
wherever possible. We provide high-quality service to the hundreds of customers – regardless of age, gender, disability or socioeconomic status – that pass through our Disability Hospital every week, and require a dedicated team to help us manage and organize their records.
Are you the person we’re looking for to play a key role in CCBRT’s Social Services Department as a Medical Records Technician in the Registration section?
The role
As Medical Records Technician at CCBRT, you will issue and fill back patients’ files and assist in customer queries, while coordinating with other staff in and outside of the registration department, e.g. nurses, doctors, and accounts staff. You will collect and fill patients’ cards and files and assist in daily, weekly and monthly statistics reports, while preparing file indexes and
maintaining registration records and documents. You are expected to ensure the working area is clean at all times, receive previews, record and facilitate filing and distribution of records, all the while ensuring that confidentiality of patients and their health status is maintained. You will also retrieve files for specialized clinics (Oculoplastic, VR, glaucoma & cataract clinic), prepare general follow-up patients’ files and retrieve and prepare pre-surgical files, and ensure that and all required surgical forms are placed in files as per the checklist.
The candidate
Diploma in Records Management and 0-1 year experience in the medical field an added advantage, OR Certificate Records Management and 2-3 years of experience in the medical field an added advantage
Excellent customer care skills
Computer Literate
Good interpersonal skills
Strong communication skills
Self-confidence; a team player
Excellence in patient service
If you are interested, please submit your curriculum vitae with 2 references and a cover letter telling us why you believe you are the right person for the role, and why you want to work for CCBRT in particular. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage people with disabilities to apply. Please send your application via email to: recruitment.ccbrt@ccbrt.org