Job opening: Medical Support Assistant (OA)
Salary: $38 540 - 50 107 per year
Published at: Oct 20 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: Positions is locate in the Clinical Support and Operations Department with the Army Community Hospital Evans, Fort Carson, CO
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation
Position will require incumbent to work rotating shifts, nights and weekends.
A recruitment or relocation incentive may be authorized.
Student Loan repayment may be authorized.
Duties
Provide support and input for the coordination of administrative services (e.g., scheduling, templates, staffing, and training) performed within the health care facilities or offices.
Enter, upload maintain, review, and/or update health care records (e.g., patient data, patient identifiers).
Assess patients' administrative needs and provide guidance or assistance in resolving patient concerns.
Ability to provide clear and concise directions for patient care.
Requirements
- Requires incumbent to work rotating shifts (i.e. work schedule that requires employees to continuously rotate from one shift to another at predetermined intervals).
- Requires incumbent to work include shift work (evenings, weekends, holidays).
- This position is mission essential. The incumbent will be required to report to work during times of contingency operations, natural disasters, extreme weather or other emergency situations.
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires a mandatory seasonal influenza vaccine and is therefore subject to annual seasonal influenza vaccinations.
- This position is inclement weather essential. This means that you must be willing to make every attempt to report for duty on time and/or remain on duty during severe weather conditions.
- This position may require periodic immunizations (other than the influenza vaccine) and tuberculosis monitoring.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the Education and/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 documented experience in one of the following areas which demonstrates 1) performing customer service functions in a workplace setting such as interacting with customers; 2) receptionist type duties such as answering telephones, receiving patients, scheduling appointments; 3) utilizing a personal computer and office automation software programs. 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.
This position requires a typing proficiency of at least 40 words per minute (WPM) based on a 5 minute sample with 3 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-DD83CJ DHA CO SPRINGS MKT-EVANS ACH
DO NOT MAIL
Fort Carson, CO 80913
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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