Job opening: Medical Support Assistant (Office Automation)
Salary: $38 162 - 49 615 per year
Published at: Aug 25 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This position is located within Tidewater Market, McDonald Army Health Clinic Center, FT Eustis
This is a Direct Hire Solicitation
Duties
The incumbent performs the full range of receptionist, recordkeeping and miscellaneous clerical duties within the ambulatory setting.
Enters, manipulates and/or retrieves information and data from automated systems.
Receives patients and visitors as the initial point of contact, in person or telephonically
Monitors and manages the Army Medicine Secure Messaging System (AMSMS) at the clinic/practice level.
Maintains all patients' records, both electronic and paper, according to regulation ensuring each entry contains proper patient and health care provider identification.
Responsible for the clerical duties inherent to the in processing (reception), care and out processing
(transition) of outpatients, families/caregivers and guests.
Responds to emergency calls and notifies emergency medical personnel
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- May be required to work overtime, weekends, holidays and evenings
- Physical Exam may be required.
- Immunizations are required.
- This position may be a weather or mission essential position.
- This may be a rotating position.
- This position may require occasional temporary duty travel - 5%.
- A qualified typist is required.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes, working in a medical environment performing one or more of the following, scheduling medical appointments, creating or reviewing medical files or folders, verifying eligibility information, utilize a medical automated software. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).
OR
Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60. Add the two percentages.
Proficiency Required: This position requires a qualified typist. A qualified typist can type 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Contacts
- Address JT-DHA-DD83CQ DHA TIDEWATER MKT-MCDONALD AHC
DO NOT MAIL
Fort Eustis, VA 23604
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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