Healthcare Administrative Assistant – Scheduling & Support

Mount Sinai Health System; Greenlawn (NY); On-site; USD 23,419 - 34,440; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a skilled administrative professional to provide secretarial and general office support within a department, care center, or nursing unit in the New York area.

The role includes word processing, typing, telephone reception, mail handling, and records maintenance, with duties spanning schedule management, data gathering, and basic accounting tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in secretarial science, Secretarial School diploma or High School Diploma/GED 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 and other documents from dictation or handwritten copy. Proofreads typed materials and makes corrections, as needed.
• May screen and schedule patient appointments, schedule referrals of special testing or doctors visits, and keep record of patient billing for submission.
• Makes travel, accommodation and/or transportation arrangements.
• Schedules and maintains calendar for meetings and/or appointments.
• Responds to inquiries for information according to established policies.
• Gathers, assembles and categorizes data for general information purposes and special reports.
• May process check requests and expense reimbursements.
• Performs other related duties as necessary.

Skills

Word processing

Typing

Telephone reception

Mail distribution

Record keeping

Calendar management

Education

Associate Degree in secretarial science

Secretarial School diploma or High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a skilled administrative professional to provide secretarial and general office support within a department, care center, or nursing unit in the New York area.

The role includes word processing, typing, telephone reception, mail handling, and records maintenance, with duties spanning schedule management, data gathering, and basic accounting tasks as needed.