Patient Care Secretary Night + Weekends Only

VITAS Healthcare; Fort Lauderdale (FL); Vor Ort; USD 16.531 - 27.552; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

A healthcare provider in Fort Lauderdale is seeking a part-time Patient Care Secretary to support the team with various clerical tasks. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, good typing abilities, and the capacity to handle multiple tasks. Responsibilities include scheduling, managing patient charts, and facilitating communication between team members and patients. This position requires a high school diploma and three years of relevant experience.

Qualifikationen

• Three years prior work experience preferred.
• Computer literate.

Aufgaben

• Screen telephone calls for Team Manager.
• Establish and maintain patient charts in an orderly fashion.
• Enter patient care and volunteer data into Vx.
• Maintain daily schedule for all team members.

Kenntnisse

Good typing skills

Excellent communication skills

Good telephone skills

Able to handle multiple tasks

Ausbildung

High school graduate or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Patient Care Secretary Night + Weekends Only at VITAS Healthcare supports the Team Manager in patient care related clerical procedures.

Salary Range: $12 - $20 / Hour

Responsibilities

• 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• EOE/AA M/F/D/V.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Part-time

Job function

• Administrative

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care