Office Assistant

About the role

Supports clinic, department or program in an administrative capacity. Department: 6601000024 SPS Endocrinology. Job Type: Employee.

Responsibilities

• Performs duties under supervision and within well established guidelines.
• Greets patients or visitors, answers/screens/routes telephone calls, files, distributes mail and performs other general clerical duties.
• May provide assistance with programs/software for providers.
• May assemble and maintain patient charts.
• Responsible for making copies, answering phones, making appointments, and maintaining records.
• May be responsible for maintaining office inventory including ordering supplies.
• Ensures that office equipment is in good working order and requests repairs or maintenance as needed.
• Communicates with patients, families, physicians and other healthcare team members about patient care according to protocol.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Education: High school diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience.
• Experience: No experience required.
• Required professional license and/or certifications: None.
• Physical requirements:
  • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0‑25 lbs.
  • Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  • Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication; ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25‑50 lbs.
  • Rare climbing.

Schedule

• Work shift: Day Shift (United States of America)
• Scheduled weekly hours: 40