What are the responsibilities and job description for the Administrative Assistant/Receptionist - Addictions position at Seven Counties Services?
Job Description:
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Performs such front-desk/reception functions as meeting and greeting clients and visitors, answering multi-line switchboard, forwarding calls to voice mail or appropriate staff member, taking and delivering messages, checking in clients (including verifying such demographic information as telephone number, mailing address, payer source; collecting payment for services; documenting payment for services; notifying clinician when client arrives); reconciling cash drawer; scheduling client appointments; copying, sorting, and delivering mail; sending and receiving/delivering faxes; meeting with client to review client intake form; and handling difficult customer service interactions, either face-to-face or by telephone. Enters various client data in electronic information system (e. g., client demographics, clinical assessment summaries (CASs), client eligibility information, client transfers, event changes, annual review updates) and enters other program-specific data (e. g., grants, payee) in various databases. Performs such medical records-related functions as building new legal health records; archiving closed legal health records; pulling legal health records for clinicians in advance of client appointments; filing clinical documentation (e. g., progress notes, treatment plans) in legal health record; managing legal health records by creating new volumes when record grows too large for single file; processing disability requests, releases of information, and subpoenas and court orders; generating correspondence to requestors of information; transferring legal health records from one program site to another; ordering closed legal health records from archives; running deficiency reports on legal health records; recovering files; and performing quantitative analyses of legal health records. Files and maintains variety of correspondence, records, reports, and other documents, related to site's operations, in addition to those related to legal health records.
EDUCATION
- Completion of up to 18 months' business school, beyond high school.
EXPERIENCE
- Three-to-four years' experience working in office setting and performing various clerical or administrative tasks.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Typing speed 50 - 60 word units per minute.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Position has no unusual physical demands; individual has discretion about walking, standing, etc.
- Position requires lifting up to 10 pounds, with occasional lifting of ledgers, medical records, or computer runs.
- Position may occasionally require walking or standing, stooping, or bending.
- Occasional exposure to office chemicals or continual use of a video display terminal.
Time Type:
Full time