Receptionist

002 Sea Mar Community Health Center; City of Mount Vernon (NY); On-site; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is hiring a Front Desk Receptionist to act as the liaison between patients and the clinic. You will manage front desk activities, answer calls, schedule visits, and assist with patient registrations, ensuring a smooth patient flow and adherence to clinic protocols.

This role requires strong customer service, teamwork, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced health center environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Ability to manage phone calls and patient scheduling.
• Ability to work in a team and follow protocols.

Responsibilities

• Greet patients and check in with last name.
• Answer calls within 3 rings and greet warmly.
• Schedule and confirm patient appointments.
• Maintain patient registration and accounts in the practice management system.
• Assist with other front desk duties as needed.

Skills

Customer service

Phone etiquette

Communication

Multitasking

Education

High school diploma

Tools

Practice management software

Job description

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

We are recruiting for the following position

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

Position Summary

The Front Desk Receptionist is the liaison between the public and the facility. This job description does not suggest or imply that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The Front Desk Receptionist will be required to follow other instructions and to perform other duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services. Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

Includes the following, but is not limited to:

• Maintain a clean and healthy work space environment and patient area.
• Responsible for all daily front desk activities to ensure completion.
• Answers the telephone and assists callers.
• Schedules and confirms patient appointments according to the Front Desk Manual.
• Maintains an average daily registration schedule of 21 patients per provider (MD) and 18 patients per provider (ARNP/PA) or 70 phone calls, depending on role.
• Assists the medical/dental records department in; Scanning documents, queuing/indexing, sorting, filing, pulling charts as needed.
• Distributes and screens all incoming and outgoing mail.
• Maintains a 100% Collection rate by collecting patient's account payments and balances.
• Assists patients in filling out patient registration forms.
• Assists all patients with accessing services to Health Care.
• Informs patients about other Health Centers and community services.
• Accurately enters patient demographic information into the practice management system.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Works as a team with the back office to ensure Clinical Quality Measure gaps are addressed.
• The front desk will work as a team and complete the tasks that they are responsible for but will always be prepared to assist others as needed.

Productivity and Quality

Acknowledge each patient's arrival inside the clinic with a smile. Offer your assistance. If you are on the phone during their arrival, please let the patient know that you will be with them in a moment.

You will address each patient by their last name.

• You must answer each call within 3 rings.
• When you are addressing patients calling on the phone, each patient should receive a sincere and pleasant greeting.
• Every call should be answered with, "Good morning (afternoon), Sea Mar Community Health Centers, this is _______, how may I direct your call?"
• At no time should any call be placed on hold for longer than 2 minutes without checking in with the patient.

Personnel and Performance Metrics

• Adhere to schedule and be prepared to provide services by 8am each day.
• Provider services using AIDET skills at all times.
• Complete quality care gaps for 100% of patients treated.
• Provider services to a minimum of ten patients a day.
• Strongly support Follow My Health enrolment.
• Close chart notes within 24 hours of service.
• Must be able to support and maintain an average of 21 patient visits a day for a full days schedule per provider (MD) and an average of 18 patient visits per day per provider (ARNP/PA).

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to;
• Perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Pass the Pre-hire competency test.
• Pass the 90 day Probationary period Competency Test.
• Be able to troubleshoot office equipment.
• Good organizational skills.
• Be a de