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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Practice Operations Assistant

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383

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Practice Operations Assistant – Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Performs administrative and clinic support duties within physician operations to ensure efficient daily office operations and to support the delivery of safe and quality patient care.

Job Details

Shift: Day (Start: 8:00 AM, End: 4:30 PM)

Work Days: Friday, Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Position Type: Regular (Full-time)

Location: 5461 Meridian Mark Rd

Seniority Level: Entry level

Job Family: Practice Operations & Management

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

Experience

One year of experience in administrative or office management role (physician office clinic setting preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare, or related field

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Certification Summary No professional certifications required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Demonstrated verbal and written communication, organizational, customer service, and interpersonal skills

Proficient in full suite of Microsoft Office and other Windows-based applications

Job Responsibilities

Serves as primary contact and resource for patient appointment scheduling; may include collaboration with centralized contact center teams.

Maintains provider and resource schedules through the use of Epic and system tools; may include oversight of schedule disruptions, development of inpatient service schedules, updating room scheduling tools, etc.

Works to meet all department and CPG patient access goals and metrics.

Coordinates with clinical teams to ensure all information and resources are available for patient care; may include scheduling interpreters for clinic visits, obtaining medical records, etc.

Reviews and answers Epic InBasket messages, emails, and phone calls related to scheduling, patient access, and other administrative requests.

Optimizes schedule utilization by monitoring and managing patient recall and wait lists, work queues, appointment referrals, etc.

Addresses patient communication including faxes, mail, inbound and outbound phone calls, patient forms, etc.

Performs general administrative duties to support department/office including creating correspondence, filing documents, photocopying, answering, and routing calls, collecting credentialing documents, submitting expense requests and meeting coordination.

Orders and stocks supplies, performs record-keeping and/or cash reconciliation activities, acts as liaison to other departments and/or vendors, takes minutes at meetings, and performs quality management functions as necessary.

Prepares minutes, agenda, and coordinates other meeting materials in a timely manner.

May be responsible for basic payroll or timekeeping activities, human resources paperwork, and/or database record maintenance as necessary.

May perform other department-specific duties and other assignments as appropriate.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

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