Healthcare Administrative Assistant

Mount Sinai; Halesite (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a detail-oriented administrative assistant to perform secretarial and general office support for a department, care center, or nursing unit in New York. Responsibilities include answering calls, filing, scheduling appointments, coordinating travel, and handling patient billing records.

The role requires an associate degree or secretarial training plus at least one year of related experience, with strong typing, communication, and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or secretarial training plus one year of related experience.
• 1 year of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Answers telephone, screens callers, relay messages and greets visitors.
• Opens, sorts and prioritizes mail; picks up and delivers materials as required.
• Maintains records through filing, retrieval, retention, storage, coding, updating and destruction.
• Types routine correspondence, memos, reports, minutes from dictation or handwritten copy; proofreads and corrects as needed.
• May screen and schedule patient appointments, referrals, and keep patient billing records.
• Makes travel, accommodation and/or transportation arrangements.
• Schedules and maintains calendar for meetings and appointments.
• Responds to inquiries per established policies.
• Gathers, assembles and categorizes data for information and reports.
• May process check requests and expense reimbursements.
• Performs other related duties as necessary.

Skills

Telephone reception

Typing

Record keeping

Scheduling

Education

Secretarial education

Job description

Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a detail-oriented administrative assistant to perform secretarial and general office support for a department, care center, or nursing unit in New York. Responsibilities include answering calls, filing, scheduling appointments, coordinating travel, and handling patient billing records.

The role requires an associate degree or secretarial training plus at least one year of related experience, with strong typing, communication, and organizational skills.