The University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center is seeking a Clinical Services Specialist to provide daily administrative clinical and operational support to the Neurology Ambulatory Clinic as well as secondary support to other clinics within the Neurology Department as needed.
The Clinic Services Specialist acts as a resource on patient/clinical workflow: such as informatics (EHR) patient appointment systems care coordination billing/compliance and management of medical information for a clinic team.
Job Duties to Include:
- Provide daily administrative clinical and operational support to the Department of Neurology.
- Coordinate clinical visits and procedures in a multidisciplinary environment.
- Communicate with patients and external entities and manage the previsit activities by triaging patient inquiries.
- Provide support to the clinical teams of these divisions on inpatient clinic days including managing patient and faculty/staff schedules.
- Conduct post visit activities. Follow up with referring providers and patients for the completion of medical forms and questionnaires.
- Provide operational support to clinical teams of faculty and staff to assure division clinics are patient centric and flow without interruptions.
- Prepare and administer correspondence to patients about clinic visits and related clinical research.
- Serve as the point of contact for all patients faculty and staff in the Neurology Lab areas and communicate their needs to the clinical team.
- Communicate with other clinical sites both internally and externally.
- Manage communications between clinical teams and the various research programs. Respond to request for information.
- Gather medical information from patients and provide information using available resources.
- Make decisions and exercise a high level of autonomy while performing responsibilities.
- Develop and/or enhance the previsit visit and postvisit processes.
- Manage correspondence.
- Access the needs of the patients and interpret how the clinic team can serve them efficiently and effectively to enhance the patient experience.
- May provide functional and administrative supervision to undergraduate student assistants.
- Coordinate inpatient schedule for Neurology Clinic patients.
- Other duties as assigned.
Percent of Time: 100
Schedule: MondayFriday day shift no weekends or holidays.
The University of Iowa Health Care Medical Centerrecognized as one of the best hospitals in the United Statesis Iowas only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12000 employees students and volunteers work together to provide safe quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply stated our mission is: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum 1year experience in a medical/clinic setting.
- Recent working experience with electronic health records (e.g. Epic)
Experience in writing/developing correspondence with internal and external entities (e.g. patients customers vendors etc.
Proficiency in computer software applications (e.g. Microsoft Word Excel Outlook etc..
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of clinical scheduling patient scheduling and coordination of patient activities.
- Knowledge of University of Iowa policies and procedures
- Experience working with spreadsheets and database data entry
- Knowledge of billing/compliances.
Please attach a resume and cover letter as part of the application process. Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.
Successful candidates will be required to selfdisclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification.
Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment additional questions please contact Erin Curry ator
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