Receptionist

Position Purpose

Carries out duties as assigned and relieves management of clerical work and minor administrative and business detail by performing the following duties.

Essential Functions & Basic Duties

• Answers and screens incoming telephone calls and takes messages.
• Greets patients, families, staff, and visitors as they enter the Academy and monitors traffic flow to ensure that only appropriate persons are allowed to enter.
• Ensures that all visitors and patients are signed in before they enter the clinic.
• Organizes and maintains file system, and files correspondence and other records.
• Routes appropriate mail.
• Locates and attaches files to correspondence to be answered by the employer.
• Prepares outgoing mail and correspondence, including e-mail and faxes.
• Responds to requests for copies of patient medical records from other agencies, professionals, and/or patients.
• Makes copies of correspondence or other printed material.
• Performs daily status checks of each Medicaid patient's treatment eligibility.
• Breaks down each patient's medical chart after the patient has been discharged from the clinic and organizes and stores the records in the designated area.
• Scans documents as appropriate.
• Completes check requests, word processing tasks and updates documentation.
• Maintains a list of supplies needed and submits all supply requests to the Director for approval.

Experience/Knowledge Required

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Skills/Abilities

• Communicate effectively and professionally with a wide variety of people.
• Work with children birth to age 7 and families who are at risk.
• Show strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Show basic computer skills which includes a working knowledge of database, word processing, spreadsheet, and Internet software.
• Handle multiple tasks in a very busy environment.
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, policies, and other company documents.
• Write routine reports and correspondence.
• Speak effectively before groups of families or employees of organization.
• Add, subtract, multiply, divide, in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standard situations.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Kids Unlimited Learning Academy & Miracle Kids Success Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Salary

$12 - $16 per hour