Lead Tift- Cook Patient Access Specialist

Legacy Behavioral Health Services; Tifton (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Competitive pay

Paid leave: 24 days first year

401(k) with employer contributions and

3% match after one year

Job summary

Legacy Behavioral Health Services is seeking a Lead Patient Access Specialist to operate in Tifton and Adel, Georgia. The role oversees clerical staff, coordinates schedules, and ensures accurate financial and clerical records while liaising with clinical and administrative teams.

The ideal candidate has a technical or associate degree in business, with prior medical office and supervisory experience, strong data analysis skills, and solid communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Technical or associate degree in a business-related field.
• Prefer 5 years experience in a medical office environment.
• Previous management experience of at least 1 year supervising clerical staff.
• Requires basic computer skills and working knowledge of EMR.
• Ability to analyze data for improvement opportunities.
• Discretion with confidential information and consumer-protected information.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and teambuilding.

Responsibilities

• Manages clerical staff and duties to support clinical programs within the counties served.
• Hire, train and discipline staff.
• Maintains clerical personnel files, approves timesheets and leave, schedules staff to meet clinic needs.
• Acts as liaison between Clerical, Clinical, Medical and Administration; ensures policy compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data analysis

Teamwork

Education

Technical or associate degree in business

Job description

Legacy Behavioral Health is hiring individuals with a passion for making a difference in their community! We are seeking a Lead Patient Access Specialist to work in Tifton and Adel, Georgia. Manages clerical staff and clerical duties to support clinical programs within the county(s) served. Hire, train and discipline staff. Maintains clerical personnel files, approves times sheets and leave, schedules clerical staff to adequately meet needs of the clinics. This position assures needed financial and clerical records are maintained, serves as liaison between Clerical, Clinical, Medical and Administration when called upon and assures staff comply with agency policies and guidelines.

Benefits:

• Health insurance: Quality, affordable coverage through State of Georgia employee benefit plans.


• Competitive pay


• 24 Days of paid leave in your first year


• Retirement Plans: Automatic 2% employer contribution to your 401(k), plus a 3% match after one year.

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This position requires:

• A technical or associate’s degree in a business related field.


• Prefer 5 years experience in a medical office environment.


• Previous management experience of at least 1 year of direct supervision of clerical staff, required.


• Requires basic computer skill. Thorough understanding and working knowledge of all aspects of EMR.


• Ability to analyze data for improvement opportunities.


• Utilizes discretion in handling the organization’s confidential information and consumer-protected information.


• Must have a valid drivers’ license.


• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, and teambuilding.

Who we are:

Legacy Behavioral Health Services provides support within 10 counties in South GA, Ben-Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift and Turner County. Legacy Behavioral Health Services believes that through individualized care, quality of care and support, your life could be transformed.

Working Conditions:

Physical Demands
Sit, walk, and stand: may spend up to twenty-five percent of working time standing/walking. Lift, carry, push, pull: generally not more than ten pounds of force is needed to lift, carry push, or pull objects. Bend, stoop, and kneel: occasional bending and kneeling may be required in troubleshooting equipment/assisting clients. Manual dexterity/wrist and hand repetitions: good manual and finger dexterity is needed; up to fifty percent of working time may be spent using a computer keyboard. Vision, hearing, speaking: must have good visual acuity and depth perception to operate the computer system; speaking and hearing are essential to the communication needs of the position.

Environmental Conditions

Moving mechanical parts are found in the work environment. Work is performed in a well-lighted, temperature-controlled, and humidity-controlled environment.
May be requested on occasion to travel to conferences and meetings as an organization representative. Must be able to make arrangements to attend these as required.

ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION

Position opened to:

ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS

Internal Applicants must be in their current position for 6 months with no disciplinary action unless the position available is within your current department and you have been employed, in your current position, for 1 month without any disciplinary action.

Drug-Free Workplace/ Equal Opportunity Employer