Clerical Group Leader

SUMMARY

Provides secretarial, clerical and administrative support services, including:

• Scheduling of meetings and appointments
• Screens calls
• Prepares correspondence
• Takes minutes of meetings
• Maintains patient records
• Prepares statistical analyses

RESPONSIBILITIES

Covers the efficient flow of work through an assigned area of responsibility. Prioritizes and assigns work to subordinate clerical personnel, reviews work for accuracy, grammar, punctuation, completeness, and format. Provides functional guidance regarding clerical operations, policies, and procedures of the department.

• Interviews prospective employees
• Recommends selection
• Completes performance appraisals
• Recommends corrective action, up to and including termination
• Recommends salary adjustments, where appropriate
• Schedules meetings and appointments
• Arranges travel accommodations
• Prepares agendas, gathers pertinent data for dissemination, and attends meetings to take, compose, transcribe, and distribute minutes
• Answers telephone and receives visitors
• Ascertains needs, establishes priorities, and investigates background material
• Responds to inquiries within the level of responsibility and authority, relaying other calls to the appropriate individual
• Prepares and maintains a variety of reports and documents (often of a confidential nature) requiring file search, interpretation, and compilation of data (i.e. budget reports, billing, grant proposals, time sheets, etc.)
• Prepares and signs routine correspondence in own name
• May coordinate information in order to prepare department newsletter, designs and prepares cover letter, forms, etc.
• Completes a variety of word processing tasks including correspondence, personnel profiles, agendas, manuscripts, records, charts, statistical tables, forms, etc., which may require knowledge of medical terminology
• May take transcribed dictation
• May gather information and prepare billing for service rendered, sending as appropriate to an individual or third party payer
• Maintains appropriate records for budgetary purposes
• Establishes, maintains, and revises as necessary records and filing systems, often handling highly confidential materials such as budget, payroll, patient, and personnel data
• Proposes changes in work procedures to more effectively coordinate flow of work through area of responsibility
• Records and monitors expenditures against budget, alerts supervisor of possible areas of concern
• Maintains inventory and orders office/medical supplies at own discretion, but according to knowledge of usage patterns and within established guidelines
• Performs library research in order to secure materials or guide supervisor to appropriate source and to prepare bibliographies on a given topic
• Maintains departmental resources library
• Performs clerical duties using such equipment as calculator, copy machine, word processor, typewriter, and transcription equipment
• Opens, sorts, and distributes mail
• Answers routine requests, maintains time sheets for personnel, processes requests for checks and expense vouchers
• Performs duties of subordinate clerical staff due to absence or if workloads require
• Performs other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BASIC KNOWLEDGE: Work requires in addition to the skills normally obtained through High School, one year of formal secretarial/business education or its equivalent. Medical terminology may also be required.
• EXPERIENCE: One to two years progressively more responsible experience acquiring secretarial skills and experience-based knowledge of support functions, ability to effectively coordinate an efficient workflow, exercise independent judgment, and develop interpersonal/communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills to effectively interface with Hospital personnel and persons from outside the Hospital such as vendors, patients, etc., and to direct the activities of a subordinate clerical group.
• Analytical ability in order to search records, interpret materials, and prepare a variety of reports and documents.
• Written and oral skills to prepare and review a variety of reports, documents, correspondence, and to effectively communicate policies and procedures.
• Ability required to operate office equipment.
• Organizational ability to prioritize and assign work, and to develop and maintain records and filing system.
• Proficient computer and typing skills to prepare a variety of reports, documents, and correspondence.
• Ability to exercise considerable independent judgment, requiring knowledge of department policies and procedures.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Normal office environment with some walking to assign work and review performance of clerical staff.

INDEPENDENT ACTION

Performs independently within the department’s policies and practices. Refers specific complex problems to the supervisor when clarification of the departmental policies and procedures are required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

Schedules and assigns work, providing guidance and counseling to subordinate clerical staff.

PAY RANGE

$19.97-$32.96

LOCATION

Rhode Island Hospital - 593 Eddy Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903

WORK TYPE

Sunday-Tuesday 3:30 pm-12:00 am with holiday rotation

WORK SHIFT

Evening

DAILY HOURS

8 hours

DRIVING REQUIRED

No