Office Manager- FT- Days- Safety

DHR Health; Edinburg (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

DHR Health in Edinburg, TX seeks an Office Manager to provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Safety Department. The role involves typing, scheduling, filing, and special projects to ensure smooth operations in a fast-paced healthcare setting.

Responsibilities include coordinating meetings, maintaining documentation, assisting with staff safety training, and supporting the department during leadership absence.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• IT tech/repair/troubleshooting experience strongly preferred.
• Telecommunication/Safety/Fire Monitoring training or experience.
• Valid Texas driver’s license and proof of vehicle insurance.
• Must be able to be sensitive to cultural and bilingual issues.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
• Ability to read, write and speak English.
• Ability to communicate clearly with nursing, administration, and physicians.
• Some evening or weekend work will be required.

Responsibilities

• Promotes the facility mission, vision and values in daily operations.
• Oversees the Safety department during the Safety Officer’s absence.
• Assists with hospital staff safety education and onboarding.
• Supports ID badge printing and programming as needed.
• Assists with new hire orientation when needed.
• Supports data collection activities for department leadership.
• Prepares administrative reports and schedules; maintains records and regulatory documents.
• Manages office supplies and maintains safety hardware inventory.
• Coordinates meetings, interviews, and calendar scheduling.
• Responds to calls and visitors with professionalism and courtesy.
• Maintains facilities compliance documentation and uses work order systems.

Skills

Communication skills

English proficiency

Organizational skills

Customer service

Multicultural awareness

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Valid Texas Driver’s License

Tools

IT tech experience

Telecommunication/Safety training

Job description

Office Manager- FT- Days- Safety - 17464

US:TX:Edinburg | Facilities & Support Services | Full Time

Posted a month ago

Description

DHR Health - US:TX:Edinburg - Days

Summary:

MISSION STATEMENT:

Our Mission is to improve the well-being of those we serve with a commitment to excellence: every patient, every encounter, every time.

VISION:

Our Vision is to create a world-class health system to advance medicine and increase access for the communities we serve by empowering caregivers to heal through compassion, knowledge, innovation, integrated care and excellence.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Provides secretarial and administrative support services to the Safety Department including, but not limited to typing/word processing, proofreading, preparing reports, processing correspondence, scheduling meetings, recording at meetings, receiving visitor, maintaining files and conducting special projects as assigned.

POSITION EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS :

• High School Diploma/GED required
• IT Tech/Computer Repair/Troubleshooting experience strongly preferred
• Require Telecommunication/Security/Fire Monitoring training or experience
• Valid Texas Driver’s License & proof of vehicle insurance
• Must be able to be sensitive to cultural and bilingual issues.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
• Ability to read, write and speak English
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with all levels of nursing, administration, and physicians
• Some evening or weekend work will be required

JOB KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE :

• 3-5 years Safety management experience
• 4-6 years in life safety/ IT or related areas
• Demonstrate knowledge of safety-related occupational training as well as local, state, and federal safety regulations or OSHA strongly preferred
• Able to respond to staff needs for any assistance to complete tasks

Responsibilities:

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promotes the facility mission, vision and values by effectively communicating them to others. Considers mission, vision and values in developing services, standards and practice
• Oversees the Safety department during the Safety Officer’s absence
• Assists with the development and performance of hospital staff safety education
• Helps with ID Badge printing and programming when needed
• Assists with new hire orientation when needed
• Assists the department director with data collection activities
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of grammar, punctuation and composition.
• Prepares a variety of administrative reports, statements and rosters. Gathers data and other necessary information.
• Maintains regulatory compliance documentation
• Assists with employee time management
• Coordinates inspection and maintenance activities with vendor and dealers
• Assigns and dispatches corrective work orders to safety department staff
• Consistently is attentive to detail, record keeping and required paperwork inherent to the position.
• Distributes mail in a timely manner.
• Maintains PAR level office supplies and inventory of necessary safety hardware.
• Arranges meetings and conferences, schedules appointments and interviews as well as perform other duties related to maintaining administration schedules.
• Accepts and screens telephone calls and routes calls appropriately; promptly and graciously responds to calls and visitors and determines the urgency of the situation; suggest appropriate referrals or informs administration when the situation warrants immediate attention.
• Tactfully handles difficult situations; contacts are handled professionally and consistently with courtesy.
• Establishes good rapport and cooperative working relationships with hospital personnel.
• Performs wells under pressure.
• Maintains facilities compliance documentation
• Utilizes the facilities work order system to schedule maintenance
• Coordinates maintenance and preventative maintenance activities with local vendors
• Document and report safety staff activities that may require corrective action.

LINES OF RESPONSIBILITIES :

(Chain-of-command) Safety Officer → 2. Vice President – Facilities and Asset Management

Other information:

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Provide excellent customer service to all DHR customers. All employees are required to attend the DHR C.A.R.E.S program which outlines the Customer Service Principals including: Commitment, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Service.

AGE SPECIFIC :

Employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirement relative to his or her age.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: (ADA) :

A. Essential Duties: Indicated by bold print within performance standards, preceding individual numbered criteria.

The following table provides physical requirements that will be associated with, but not limited to, this position:

Light/moderate lifting up to 20 lbs, from the floor to shoulder height.

Yes

Kneeling

Yes

Must be able to assist other employees with lifting more than 20 lbs.

Yes

Walking

Yes

Light/moderate carrying up to 20 lbs.

Yes

Yes

Straight pulling

Yes

Yes

Pulling hand over hand

Yes

Pushing

Yes

Repeated bending

Yes

Yes

Reaching above shoulder

Yes

Yes

Yes

Climbing Ladders

No

Dual simultaneous grasping

Yes

Depth Perceptions needed

Yes

Ability to see

Yes

Yes

Operating office equipment

Yes

Twisting

Yes

Operating mechanical equipment

Yes

No

Ability to read and write

Yes

Ability to Count

Yes

Ability to hear verbal communication without aid

Yes

Operating Personal Vehicle

Yes

Ability to comprehend written/verbal communication

Yes

Other: Ability to deal with stress

Yes

OSHA Category

III

B. Working Conditions: The individual spends over 95% of his/her time in an air-conditioned environment with varying exposures to noise. There is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The position does have low exposure to malodorous, infectious body fluids from patients and some minimal exposure to noxious smells from cleansing agents.

C. Occupational Exposure: This position has minimal to no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and is an OSHA Category III (although situations can be imagined or hypothesized under which anyone, anywhere, might encounter potential exposure to body fluids). Person who performs these duties are not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way.

Intelligence: General learning ability: The ability to “catch on” or understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. 3

Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them, and to use them effectively. To comprehend language, to understand relationships between words, and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs. To present information or ideas clearly. 3

Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. 2

Spatial: Ability to comprehend forms in space and understands relationships of plane and solid objects. Frequently described as the ability to “visualize” objects or two or three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms. 2

Form Perception: Ability to perceive pertinent details and objects or in pictorial or graphic material to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures and widths and lengths of lines. 3

Clerical Perception: Ability to receive pertinent details and verbal or tabular material. To observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers, and to avoid perceptual errors in arithmetic computation. 2

Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands to fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly. 3

Finger Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with fingers in placing and turning motions. 3

Manual Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with hands in placing and turning motions. 3

Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination: Ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli. 3

Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive and respond to similarities or differences in colors, shapes, or other values of the same or different color. To identify a particular color, or to recognize harmonious or contrasting color combinations, or to match color adequately. 3

I have read and reviewed my job description with my supervisor or designee and I understand the job I am expected to perform.

If applicable ____________ certification will be completed within _________ time frame of hire/transfer date.

Employee Signature: ________________________________ Date: ____________________