Job Description

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This position is covered by the NP-3 Bargaining Unit; click here to review the current NP-3 Contract.
This position is in salary group CL-13; click here to review the current CL Pay Plan
This position is part of a classified Bargianing Unit. The benefits are:


Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These are the values that define UConn Health, and we are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking to add a full-time

Office Assistant

to our Radiology department. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for patient experience, we want to hear from you.



At UConn Health, this class is accountable for performing a full range of general clerical functions or for carrying out responsibility for the flow and completion of clerical work in an assigned area.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Works under the general supervision of an employee of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May have lead responsibilities over lower-level clerical or other employees as assigned.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

Performs the full range of general clerical duties as described in the following areas:

TYPING: + Types a variety of materials in relation to other duties or as assigned;
+ Enters and retrieves data on computers, tablets, and other electronic equipment.
FILING:

Sets up and maintains office procedures, filing and indexing systems and forms for own use.
CORRESPONDENCE:

Composes routine correspondence.
REPORT WRITING:

Compiles and generates recurrent technical, statistical or financial reports requiring judgment in the selection and presentation of data (format).
INTERPERSONAL:

Provides general information and referral services in response to citizen complaints or questions regarding an agency's services or authority; Responds to inquiries from other work units or departments/agencies; Applies agency policies and state statutes and regulations in determining case status or responding to requests for procedural assistance; May lead lower level employees in carrying out assigned clerical functions.
PROCESSING:

Maintains calendars of due dates and initiates recurring work or special clerical projects accordingly; Processes a variety of documents in determining routine case status; Exercises discretion in choosing appropriate follow through procedures within defined guidelines including assembling and reviewing incoming materials for accuracy, completeness and conformance to established guidelines and agency policy and procedures, verifying information through use of internal resources and contacts with sender and other work units and soliciting additional information as required by correspondence; Processes purchase requisitions/purchase orders for subsequent action; Prepares payment lists and billing invoices; Receives shipments of materials and matches/verifies shipment or billing invoices against original purchase orders; Maintains files, journals or account ledgers by posting credits, expenditures, interest, etc.; Figures payments, costs, discounts and adjustments using prescribed methods and formulas; Receives monies in various forms such as cash, checks and money orders and prepares for deposit; Maintains inventory and orders supplies; Uses a variety of electronic equipment to perform job functions.
Performs related duties as required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

Knowledge of office systems and procedures including proper telephone usage and filing; oral and written communication skills; skill in performing arithmetical computations; basic interpersonal skills; ability to perform a full range of clerical tasks; ability to operate office equipment which includes computers, tablets and other electronic equipment; ability to operate office suite software; ability to schedule and prioritize workflow; ability to read and interpret complex instructions.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

GENERAL EXPERIENCE:

Two (2) years of general clerical work experience.

MINIMUN QUALIFICATIONS:

SUBSTITUTION ALLOWED:

College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one/half () year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Epic experience OnBase experience Experience in a hospital setting Answering 80-100 calls a day 3-5 years or more working in a medical setting Radiology experience

SCHEDULE

: Full time, 40-hour work week, Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Will need to work holidays and other shifts as needed.

WHY UCONN HEALTH

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.