Job Opening: Patient Service Representative
Job Description
Our medical clinic is looking for a Patient Services Representative.
The ideal candidate should compassionate, yet administratively minded.
Our Patient Services Representative will:
- Follow facility guidelines, healthcare laws, and regulations
- Ensure compliance with professional standards & regulatory requirements
- Maintain professionalism and treat patients with respect
- Respects patient’s rights by maintaining their confidentiality.
- Treat patients with empathy and respect while conducting oneself in a professional manner
- Perform analytical and data entry tasks
- Confidentially manage patient accounts and ensure complete and accurate patient registration
- Scan documents into patient charts and maintain a patient care database by entering new information as it becomes available
- Apply knowledge of services and clinical standards to everyday tasks
- Answer patient calls, emails and questions and coordinate the resolution of these queries.
- Assist in ensuring patients and family members understand instructions about their health conditions, and care
- Schedule patient visits and answer pre-visit questions
- Consult and collaborate with other health care providers and specialists to arrange patient appointments and referrals
- Check-in on patients regularly and evaluate and document their progress
- Work as a team player to ensure each patient receives the best service possible
- Coordinate with management and physicians to ensure comprehensive patient care
- Conduct staff meetings with the care team
- Contribute to a team effort by coordinating the management’s and Physicians’ directions with the staff to accomplish related results as needed
- Create and maintain staff and physician work schedules, coordinate absences and vacation schedules, while maintaining optimal staffing levels in the clinic
- Motivate staff to maintain a high level of patient care
- Assist care team with setting goals for quality assurance and best practices
- Develops interdisciplinary management tools by participating in meetings, coordinating information, and care requirements.
- Evaluates outcomes of care with the interdisciplinary team by measuring intervention effectiveness with the team
- Comply with legal requirements by fostering patient care practices that adhere to the clinic’s rules and regulations
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organizational standards
- Protects self, co-workers, and patients by following policies and procedures to prevent bloodborne and airborne diseases
- Transmit Information to patients about services available with the Clinic and our partners.
Skills and Qualifications
- Understanding of the resources, services, and clinical standards and outcomes of community health care
- Highly organized with a strong ability to manage different priorities
- Ability to work with others and use resources to problem solve
- Apply good judgement to fast-changing situations
- Excellent customer service skills to provide ongoing support for patients and their families
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Effective collaborator and works well with a team of other caretakers
- Ability to work under pressure with strong analytical thinking skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently
- Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, supervision, work direction and consultation.
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills and deal effectively with clients and their families, coworkers, physicians, other health care staff, and staff of external agencies,
- Demonstrated ability to teach, demonstrate, facilitate and coach.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver educational materials for staff/patients/clients and families based on educations theories, principles and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to promote a supportive and creative learning environment.
- Demonstrated ability to establish workload priorities in collaboration with others.
- Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in patient care.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities, problem-solve, adjust to unexpected events and deal with conflict.
- Demonstrated ability to function effectively and efficiently in emergency situations and guide others in order to deliver quality patient care.
- Demonstrated computer literacy to operate a computerized client care information system as well as applicable word processing, spreadsheet and database software applications.
- Experience using EMR and Microsoft Office, Ceridian Payroll and QuickBooks Software
- A caring and compassionate personality
- Demonstrated physical ability to perform the duties of the position
- Relevant training and/or certifications as a Patient Coordinator
All applicants will be required to provide proof of full vaccination as a condition of employment.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $20.00-$23.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Vision care
- Wellness program
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Orleans, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Must be currently living in the Greater Ottawa area and be able rto come for an in-person interview
Education:
- DCS / DEC (required)
Experience:
- Medical office: 1 year (required)
Language:
- English (required)
- French (required)
Work Location: In person