Clinic/Practice Assistant, Pain Management

Brigham and Women's Hospital•Newton, MA

57d•$19 - $27•Onsite

About The Position

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham. The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham's unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites. The vision for this role is to support both the Pain and Spine specialties within Newton-Wellesley Hospital Ambulatory Care Center (159 Wells Avenue in Newton). At the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Spine Center we work as a multidisciplinary team, with an emphasis on communication and coordination. Our specialists treat the full range of spinal disorders that affect the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar areas of the spine. After a careful evaluation with diagnostic and imaging tests, we create a personalized treatment plan based on your needs and goals. At the Pain Management Service at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, we care for people with many types of pain caused by a number of conditions, including acute pain that comes on suddenly and is caused by a specific injury or condition, chronic pain and cancer-related pain. We use a compassionate, team-based approach to diagnosing, relieving, and treating acute and chronic pain. We tailor our multimodal and multidisciplinary treatment plans to your unique condition and needs. Our top priority is to reduce or eliminate pain and help patients function as independently as possible. Job Summary We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Clinic/Practice Assistant to support the Pain and Spine team onsite Monday through Friday from 8:00am- 4:30pm. Clinic/Practice Assistants play an integral part in the operations of our community-based physician practices. Dedicated to administrative support, these Assistants serve as the gatekeepers of our practices and ensure that teams are delivering the highest quality experience, exceeding our patients' expectations. Leading up to the patient visit, Coordinators schedule all appointments, conduct reminder outreach, verify insurance, and obtain Prior Authorizations when needed. During the patient's visit, the focus is check-in, which includes greeting patients, answering all of their questions, collecting co-payments, and assisting with any pre-visit paperwork/forms. At the conclusion of the visit, during check-out, Assistants are tasked with scheduling follow-up appointments, tests, and/or procedures. Other duties include fielding all incoming telephone calls and triaging appropriately, handling in-basket messages, monitoring patient flow and waiting room activity, and providing general support to practice leadership, clinicians, and peers.

Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent required
office experience 3-5 years required
Strong technology and MS Office skills - Advanced Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Knowledge of office operations and standards and understanding of office procedures including filing, copying, scanning, printing and faxing.
Ability to use phone system and manage more non-routine phone calls and solve routine issues as appropriate.
Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience and Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents, to correspond and communicate with others clearly and effectively (including composing/editing e-mail, memos and letters), and to take complete and accurate messages.
Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Well organized and good time management skills to manage multiple tasks effectively, follow established protocols, and work within systems.
Ability to proofread and edit written documents.