Medical Office Assistant Pedi

6 days ago


Brockton, Massachusetts, United States Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Full time
Job Title: Medical Office Assistant Pedi

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Medical Office Assistant Pedi to join our team at Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. As a Medical Office Assistant Pedi, you will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth operation of our pediatric medical office.

Job Summary:

The Medical Office Assistant Pedi will be responsible for coordinating clerical aspects of patient services, ensuring completeness and continuity of care. This includes scheduling follow-up appointments, registration, scheduling internal and external referral appointments, acquiring referral authorization, collecting cash, and posting daily encounters.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Telephone calls: answers calls, assists the caller, and forwards the call as needed.
  • Internal appointments: schedules patients for follow-up and specialist visits at the Health Center.
  • Referral appointments: schedules referral appointments for patients at the referral specialties/facilities.
  • Referral tracking: maintains a tracking system of all external and internal referrals.
  • Check-in: patients checked from the registration areas into the specific waiting areas prior to being seen by their providers.
  • Cash: collects any additional patient copays and deductibles.
  • Communication: serves as a liaison between BNHC clinical areas, patients, and other agencies to ensure continuity of patients' care.
  • Forms: assists with any patient correspondence as directed.
  • Reporting: may be required to gather clinical information for reporting needs.
  • Interprets: may be called without notice to assist providers with interpreting.
  • Equipment & software: ensures proper use of all office equipment and software in accordance with office policy.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
  • May perform other duties as assigned by supervisor or department head.
  • Attend meetings and seminars to keep abreast of changing needs within the industry and department.
Professional Behavior:
  • Maintains a professional environment in a multi-provider, multidiscipline organization.
  • Maintains a patient-centered environment to ensure patients' continuity of care; advocates for patients.
  • Positive attitude towards co-workers and other health center departments.
  • Performs tasks within the scope of secretarial standards.
  • Demonstrates characteristics of accountability and responsibility.
  • Is reliable and dependable as demonstrated by excellent attendance, punctuality, and thorough follow-through of work tasks.
  • Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
  • Maintains discretion of conversation in work areas.
  • Is pleasant, courteous, and considerate of patients and co-workers.
  • Demonstrates ability to prioritize demands, work with distractions, adapt to change, exercise efficient time management, and work independently.
  • Demonstrates good communication skills.
  • Maintains appropriate chain of command.
  • Attends meetings.
QUALITY ASSURANCE/IMPROVEMENT:
  • Participates in the betterment of the health center through studies and reviews as necessary.
  • Goal setting: continually assess personal, team, and organization goals.
TEAMWORK ORIENTATION:
  • Maintains and encourages teamwork.
  • Maintains consistent effort to further goals by modifying and/or improving individual procedures and tasks.
  • Conflict Management.
  • Demonstrates and implements effective problem-solving.
  • Identifies and reports task and/or operational problems.
  • Manages conflict with staff appropriately.
  • Maintains good communication skills.
  • Participates in orientation of new staff and/or students.
QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Graduate of a medical secretary program preferred.
  • High School graduate or equivalent.
  • Willingness and ability to learn all aspects of job requirements.
  • High level of interpersonal and professional skills.
  • Bilingual required (Haitian Creole, Cape Verde Creole, Spanish, Portuguese).
WORKING CONDITIONS:

Works in a busy community health center in a high-crime, urban neighborhood. Interruptions are present and can be disruptive to work flow. Stress is present due to high volume of work, diversified nature of activities, and frequent crises and deadlines.

Performs other employee duties to cover for staff absences. Works overtime as needed for emergencies or to meet project deadlines.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Mostly sitting and walking. Physical demands require lifting small office supplies (not over 25 lbs.), mostly sedentary with some walking within office and to and from other departments. Visual acuity sufficient for frequent reading. Hearing acuity sufficient for holding conversations with or without audio devices.

Brockton Neighborhood Health Center is a multicultural organization that collaborates with community agencies and residents to provide high-quality comprehensive health care. We are committed to health promotion and disease prevention. BNHC began providing services in 1994 in a mobile medical van operating out of a church parking lot. Since then, the center has rapidly grown to provide desperately needed services to low-income and marginalized populations in the greater Brockton area. BNHC is committed to providing care that is responsive to community health needs and is linguistically, culturally, and financially accessible. BNHC serves an extremely diverse patient population including Brazilian, Cape Verdean, Haitian, Latino, Portuguese, African American, and Caucasian, 77% of whom live in poverty.

BNHC is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for patients and staff. As a condition of employment, employees, to include new hires, are required to be fully vaccinated to include the most recent COVID-19 booster and annual flu vaccines, with the exception of those who have documented medical or religious exemptions, that must be approved by BNHC according to its protocols. Additional vaccines may be required based on the recommendation of the CDC. New hires who are not yet vaccinated for flu or COVID can arrange to be vaccinated on site.



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