Advanced Medical Support Assistant

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Danville (IL); Presencial; USD 42.000 - 56.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

VA Illiana Health Care System is seeking an Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA) at GS-6. The AMSA will work within Health Administration Service, collaborating with a patient aligned care team (PACT) or other care settings where PACT models are used.

Applicants must meet the GS-6 grade requirements, including specialized experience and KSAs, and meet the basic English and educational requirements by the closing date 11/12/2026.

Formación

• KSAs include collaborating with clinicians across disciplines to meet patient care goals.
• Ability to set priorities and organize work to meet deadlines and comply with processes.
• Effective communication in person, electronically, and in writing; reports and data presentation.

Responsabilidades

• Answering phones, greeting patients, relaying messages to staff.
• Schedule, cancel, or reschedule appointments and/or consults per scheduling guidelines.
• Enter no-show information and monitor appointment requests from multiple sources.
• Coordinate transfers to VA facilities or private hospitals as needed.

Conocimientos

Collaboration

Communication

Prioritization

Interdisciplinary coordination

Educación

High School Diploma / GED

Descripción del empleo

The incumbent serves as an Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA) within Health Administration Service (HAS) at VA Illiana Health Care System. AMSA's at grade GS-6 work collaboratively under an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model (i.e. with a patient aligned care team (PACT), or within another specialty care setting where the PACT model is used such as Medicine, Surgical, Mental Health, etc.).

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/12/2026.

IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS LISTED ABOVE, YOU MUST MEET THE GRADE REQUIREMENTS AT THE GS-6 LEVEL TO QUALIFY FOR THIS POSITION.

Basic Requirements

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• English: Must be proficient in basic written and spoken English.
• Education/Experience:
  • Experience. No experience required.
  • Education: Must possess a High School Diploma, General Education Development equivalency certificate, or proficiency certificate from a State or territorial-level Board or Department of Education.

GS-6 LEVEL GRADE REQUIREMENTS

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have one (1) year of experience that is directly related to the duties of a MSA and that equips you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of this position. To be creditable, this experience must be equivalent to the next lower grade level, GS-5, and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with current MSA responsibilities. Experience at this level includes, but is not limited to: Advising clinical staff on current administrative processes. Answering phones, greeting patients, relaying messages to appropriate staff inside or outside of the unit, scheduling, canceling, re-scheduling patient appointments and/or consults including interpreting and verifying provider orders in accordance with VHA national scheduling guidelines. Entering no-show information; monitoring appointment requests from multiple electronic sources; participating in huddles with other MSAs and/or clinic staff to determine the daily needs of the clinic, monitoring both inpatient and outpatient appointments in areas of responsibility; verifying and updating demographics and insurance information when patients check-in for appointments. Coordinates administrative functions relating to emergency and non-emergency transfers to other VA facilities or private hospitals and determines appointment type based on the patient’s eligibility status (i.e., TRICARE, sharing agreements, collaterals, research patient, VA employee, etc.).

AND KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: You also must demonstrate the following KSAs:

• Ability to collaborate and communicate with a wide range of medical clinicians across multiple disciplines to accomplish team goal setting to ensure medical care to patients is met.
• Ability to independently set priorities and organize work to meet deadlines, ensuring compliance with established processes, policies, and regulations.
• Ability to communicate tactfully and effectively, electronically, by phone, in person, and in writing. This may include preparing reports in various formats and presenting data to various organizational levels, as well as resolving patient concerns.
• Advanced knowledge of the technical health care process (including, but not limited to: scheduling across interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery and/or care in the community models and patient health care portals) as it relates to access to care.
• Advanced knowledge of policies and procedures associated with interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery and/or care in the community operational activities that affect the patient flow, and patient support care to include, but not limited to appointment cycles, outside patient referrals, follow-up care, overbooking, provider availability, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of medical terminology due to the technical nature of language utilized by clinicians.

REFERENCE: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-06.

Physical Requirements:

The work is primarily sedentary. Physical demands do not exceed those of a typical office setting. There may be some walking, standing twisting, turning, sitting, pushing, bending, repetitive keyboarding, or carrying of light items. Some positions may require sitting for long periods of time at a computer terminal typing data while talking on a telephone headset.