Medical Front Desk & Admin Coordinator

Guardian Recruiting (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; Presencial; ZAR 134.000 - 201.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Guardian Recruiting (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town is seeking a dedicated Medical Receptionist for a Specialist Practice to provide friendly, professional front-desk support, greet patients, and coordinate appointments with accuracy and courtesy.

You will answer calls, take and route messages, maintain patient records, manage the diary, communicate billing policies, prepare files for appointments, and assist with referrals, tests, and in-room procedures.

Formación

• Front-d desk reception experience in a medical setting preferred.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Proficient with patient record systems.

Responsabilidades

• Answer calls in a professional, courteous manner and route messages to relevant staff.
• Maintain and update patient records; manage the diary and appointment scheduling.
• Assist with billing, quotations, referrals, lab results and post‑operative notes as needed.

Descripción del empleo

Our client is looking for a Medical Receptionist for a Specilaist Practice to be based in Cape Town.

Reception:

• Answering of all calls in a professional, courteous and efficient manner.

• Take messages and ensure they are actioned by relevant person.

• Maintain the issue logbook for all messages and matters that arise on a daily basis.

• Assist with phone, email or sms patients with feedback from doctor regarding messages left.

• Assist with managing the diary – booking patient appointments, communicate billing policy to all new patients.

• Assist with preparing all files for following day’s appointments.

• Welcome patients arriving in a friendly and professional manner, communicate time delays to manage client expectations.

• Assist with checking that all patient details on file are still up to date and obtain new details if relevant.

• Open accounts and capture all relevant information accurately on system for new patients.

• Assist with contacting other doctors to obtain notes and referral letters if needed for a patient’s visit.

• Assist with obtaining patient results and related correspondence (lab results, radiology etc).

• Ensuring patients get the relevant information and forms needed when they need to have an in-rooms procedure, an operation and to be hospitalised.

• Providing quotations for all patient procedures.

• Prepare the theatre list bookings and pre-authorisations.

• Assist with arranging the Anaesthetist and Assistant for surgeries.

• Ensure all clinical notes are captured on the patient files post-surgery.

• Keeping track of Assistant fees and payments made to them.

• Keeping track of cases where the doctor has assisted in surgeries.

• Assist with doctors’ reports, thank you letters (where necessary).

• Keeping track of pharmacy accounts and stock per Doctor.

Accounts:

• Bill patients accordingly and collect payment where necessary.

• Accept money (cash or card) write receipts.

• Allocate patient payments.

• Ensure all theatre billings have been completed by the doctor within 48 hours.

• Liaise with the Bureau on patient related queries and assist with debt collection.

• Month end processing.

• Daily banking given to the doctor.

• Maintain Petty Cash.

• Maintain attendance register.

General:

• Schedule all admin related appointments with the doctor and the various service providers

• Liaise with contractors such as hospital technical department, IT specialists, Suppliers etc.

• Maintain all supplier contracts and agreements.

• Ordering stock from various places: pharmacies, stationers etc

• Support of various marketing initiatives.

• Assist the doctor with all office admin related tasks.

• Maintaining the CPD register.

Kindly note that by submitting your application for this career opportunity, you agree that Guardian Recruiting may use your application for the purpose of the recruitment and selection of the said position, and thisinformation may be shared with the relevant stakeholders in the business.

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Should you not have heard back within a two-week period, please assume that your application was unsuccessful.