Patient Care Secretary Days + Weekends Only

Vitas Healthcare Corporation; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Vitas Healthcare Corporation in Fort Lauderdale seeks a Patient Care Secretary to support the Team Manager and manage patient-care clerical tasks. You will screen calls, maintain schedules, prepare meetings, and ensure patient charts are complete and properly filed.

The role requires strong typing, good communication and telephone skills, multitasking ability, and computer literacy. High school graduation is required and prior experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Three years prior work experience preferred.
• Good typing skills.
• Computer literate.
• Able to handle multiple tasks.
• Excellent communication skills
• Good telephone skills

Responsibilities

• Screen telephone calls for Team Manager and facilitate communication between patients/families and team members.
• Take and maintain daily schedules for all team members.
• Attend weekly team meetings and prepare agendas.
• Establish and manage patient charts, including required documentation handling.
• Provide back-up documentation to Billing Department as needed.
• Enter patient care and volunteer data into Vx and event tracking.
• Communicate with staff and outside agencies as directed by Team Manager.
• Coordinate coverage and scheduling for part-time staff as needed.
• Order supplies and required forms for the team.
• Handle routine correspondence for Team Manager and team members.
• Process patient care mail and maintain census accuracy.

Skills

Typing

Communication

Telephone skills

Multitasking

Computer literacy

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

The Patient Care Secretary is a skilled secretarial person whose job is to support the work of the Team Manager and who is generally responsible for accomplishing all patient care related clerical procedures. Salary Range: : $12 - $20 / Hour

• Screens telephone calls for Team Manager. Facilitates communication between patients/families and other team members, including volunteers.
• Takes and keeps daily schedule for all team members.
• Attends weekly team meetings. Prepares agenda for team meeting. Follows through on assignments given by the Team Manager.
• Establishes, maintains, and closes patient charts in an orderly fashion. This may include but is not limited to the mailing of and follow-up on all required documentation such as Plans-Of-Care, Attending Physician Authorization forms and Medical Information Request forms.
• Provides back-up documentation to Billing Department routinely and as requested.
• Orders D.M.E. and maintains record of dates ordered and picked-up.
• Enters patient care and volunteer data into Vx and event tracking.
• Communicates with staff and outside agencies as directed by Team Manager.
• When the program utilizes part time staff, the PCS will maintain a list of all part-time staff jointly with other patient care secretaries. Contacts and schedules part-time staff at the direction of Team Manager.
• Jointly with other patient care secretaries, orders supplies and documentation forms used by the team.
• Does routine correspondence for Team Manager and other members of the team.
• Sorts and processes all patient care mail jointly with other patient care secretaries.
• Maintains A.D.T. and checks census daily for accuracy.
• In programs that have more than one patient care secretary, they will cover for each other for lunch, for team meetings, and for other short intervals of absence.
• Handles other tasks as assigned by the Team Manager.

Qualifications

• Three years prior work experience preferred.
• Good typing skills.
• Computer literate.
• Able to handle multiple tasks.
• Excellent communication skills
• Good telephone skills

EDUCATION

• High school graduate or equivalent required.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

• EOE/AA M/F/D/V