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Posted: 05-May-26
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Internal Number: 269519
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About Duke University Hospital
Pursue your passion for caring with Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, which is consistently ranked among the best in the United States. The largest of the four Duke Healthhospitals with 1062 patient beds, it features comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center, an endo-surgery center, and more.
Job Band C1
Work Arrangement - Onsite
General Description:
Perform secretarial duties in support of general medical office activities to relieve medical professional personnel of clerical and administrative details and to maintain an efficient and effective operation.
Duties and responsibilities of this level
Screen and sort mail and documents; respond to routine items not requiring supervisor?s attention according to instructions and standard practices.
Department Level Duties
? Screen, distribute, and manage fax server for assigned organ program.
? Ensure mail is completed to and reaches the outgoing mail box at appropriate time to ensure prompt delivery. ? Ensure preparation of records to include labeling or cover for scanning to HIM, CD?s to radiology, and pathology. ? Complete training module for scanning and be able to perform scanning operations upon request. ? Minimize use of Fed Ex for unavoidable communication mailings to patients.
? Retrieve mail from program incoming mailbox for distribution on a daily basis.
Set up and maintain office files of patient records, reports, and correspondence and miscellaneous information in an organized fashion.
? Efficient use of Maestro care to document information, utilization of reports, work cues, and messaging.
? Utilization of LabDe for validation of externals labs and lab order entry as indicated, requesting of new performing labs, lab details pending reconciliation. ? Ordering of patient education materials from copy center, maintaining adequate supply to meet program needs. ? Preparing and sending program letter or other requested correspondence to patients or agencies by medical professional staff. ? Preparing evaluation, education class and annual patient packets, maintaining adequate supply.
? Ordering or communicating the need for supplemental brochures to AA if payment needed.
? Complete CTIL requests per office procedure (living donor)
? Prepare orders for Allomap/Allosure testing and fax orders(heart)
? Initiate service now tickets to add labs in LabDe / update referring physician names and numbers. ? Print and mail dialysis status reports to all dialysis units upon request of the AD, prepare envelopes, create labels, and mail.
Take or transcribe dictation; type medical reports and summaries, patient histories, operative notes, manuscripts and letters from rough draft to final copy ensuring accuracy and completeness. Operate general office machines to include regular typing and word processing equipment, copy machines, calculators and transcription equipment.
? Trouble shoot office machines, notify appropriate AA.
? Ordering of supplies for assigned program as requested. ? Ordering of printed materials from Universal printing, Copy Center as indicated. ? Prepare envelope supplies with cost center bar code. ? Maintain confidentiality in all correspondence.
Answer telephone, screen calls respond to routine questions and take messages to accordance with physician?s instructions; serve as receptionist for office or clinics as necessary ; greet patients, make appointments or proper referrals according to instructions and procedures; prepare documents and materials for clinics and / or patient admissions as requested. Maintain physician?s calendar of appointments and schedules, preparing materials and bringing pertinent times and dates to his/ her attention as requested.
? Provide phone coverage for DTC incoming call to all programs, screening, providing information to routine questions, and directing to destination as out lined by call management guide.
? Follow up on specimens/ packaging for CTIL testing. ? Calling for missing laboratory testing as requested by medical professional staff. Trouble shooting if testing has been completed and communication back to staff on completion. ? Access of Lab Corp/ Quest portal for lab retrieval. ? Working with customer service representative from lab to ensure accurate delivery of lab results.
? Maintain knowledge of all programs and activities to act as a resource for any caller.
? Retrieves after hours and overflow voice mail as assigned.
? Severe weather and holiday office closures recording of message for callers to DTC.
? Follow workflows for scheduling of appointments for all Duke Transplant Center Programs and assigned duties.
? Attends Medical Secretary Meetings, demonstrate teamwork and seek feedback about performance.
? Identifies resources for personal development at DUH - Online education modules, workshops, and EDI and present request to SAM or AD.
Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
? Maintain OESO training.
? Precept new staff members. ? Attend programmatic QAPI meetings. ? Cross coverage as needed to all programs in Duke Transplant Center. ? Other duties as assigned by SAM or Administrative Director.
? Attend DTC All-Staff Meeting, unless out on PTO.
? Attend team huddles and upon request, organ group huddles.
? Attend organ group retreats.
? Attend outreach events upon request of SAM or AD.
? Work will be performed in DTC location as determined by SAM or AD
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Work requires a general educational background normally equivalent to a high school education.
Experience
Work requires two years of related medical clerical experience required. sufficient to acquire skills in transcribing medical terminology, office organization, and communications. A completed medical secretarial program (nine months up to two years accredited program) may be substituted for equivalent experience.
Preferred experience: Epic, multi-tasking, detail-oriented, scheduling experience.
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