Are you a fit?

Do you posses superior communication and organization skills? Do you enjoy planning and problem-solving? The best administrative assistants are responsible for actually digging in an doing a lot of the work that happens behind the scenes in healthcare institutions and all other types of large businesses. Administrative Assistants support individuals and/or departments.

Description

Job Summary:  Provides clerical support to assigned individual(s) and/or department(s).

Essential Functions:

  • Answer phones and greet visitors
  • Schedule appointments and maintain calendars
  • Schedule and coordinate meetings
  • Collate and distribute mail
  • Prepare communications such as memos, emails, invoices, reports and other correspondence
  • Write and edit communications, from letters to reports and instructional documents
  • Create and maintain filing systems, both electronic and physical
  • Manage accounts and perform bookkeeping
  • Record meeting minutes.
  • Perform data entry.
  • Maintain strict confidentiality.

Typical Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Computer literate-Microsoft Word & Excel, proficient typing skills (50 wpm).
  • Decision-making: administrative assistants need to make independent decisions on a daily basis, addressing the best way to handle specific tasks.
  • Communications and collaboration: An administrative assistant must collaborate with other administrators and support personnel, management and clients on a regular basis.
  • Organizational skills: The ability to maintain order helps ensure executives don’t miss appointments or deadlines.
  • Writing: Their emails, letters, documents and social media posts reflect upon their employers, so they need to know how to write professionally, using proper spelling and grammar.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  1. Knowledge of medical environment.
  2. 2+ experience in a similar field.
  3. Type 70 wpm.
  4. Knowledge of medical terminology.

Pay Ranges

Base Hourly: $18 per hour
Annual: $37000 – $53999

Education & Experience

Est. Education Duration: 1 years
Entry level opportunity

Educational Opportunities