Description
OVERVIEW:
Join us and help bring mental health care to all, regardless of circumstances, background, or identity! If you are organized, flexible, love people, and want your work to make a real difference, you could be our perfect Receptionist! The position is five hours a day, five days a week. Job duties include answering phones, greeting clients, preparing our daily deposit, and checking insurance. Bilingual Spanish and experience with an electronic health record are highly preferred but not required.
THE DETAILS:
Classification: Part-time, 25 hrs/week, In-person from 12:30pm-5:30pm M-F (can be flexible)
Compensation: $21-$22/hr DOE.; added pay for Spanish bilingual. Generous benefits including paid vacation, sick, holidays; employer paid short and long term disability; 403(b) retirement with employer contribution; mental health and education benefit.
Reports to: Executive Director
Location: Northeast Portland, Oregon
Closing: Open until filled
Duties and Responsibilities
* Provide reception duties: answering phones (on multi-line system), greeting people entering the office, check in clients
* Collect new client information by phone or electronically
* Use computer and electronic health record software to enter client, appointment, and billing information, correcting data as needed
* Prepare and balance daily receipts, batches, and bank deposits
* Verify client insurance
* Open, process, and distribute mail
* Manage cash drawer, assuring adequate amount for daily change, visiting the bank as needed
* Process electronic and paper insurance payments
* Make reminder calls, texts, and emails to clients in a professional and friendly manner
* Regularly check and respond to organizational voice-mail and email
* Prepare clinical record requests
* Mail or email correspondence
* Basic office maintenance, including oversight of waiting room, literature, and adequate office inventory
* General support including copying, data entry, scanning, scheduling, or other duties as assigned
Skills required:
* High school diploma or equivalent
* One to three years' experience in similar position, within a clinical office preferred
* Experience with EHR, appointment scheduling, and patient/client demographics preferred
* Bilingual (English/Spanish) fluency preferred, but not required (added compensation may apply)
* Proficiency in Microsoft Word, 10-key, and comfort with computers and learning new software
* Excellent verbal, phone, and written communications skills
* Ability to present information concisely and effectively, both verbally and in writing
* Commitment to continually increase level of cultural sensitivity, awareness, and competency
* Ability to organize and prioritize work
* Ability to work independently with little supervision
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Commitment to the social justice values of NCC
About Us:
The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center (NCC) is a women-founded and led, family-friendly, warm and welcoming workplace. We are a completely independent nonprofit, community mental health center providing counseling and psycho-educational workshops to anyone, regardless of financial resources, faith, sexual orientation or identity, lived experience, or background. Rooted in social justice, NCC believes everyone has a right to quality health care and has a generous sliding scale ensuring no one is turned away because of an inability to pay. NCC is committed to these ideals and making them visible in daily operations.
Equity
NCC is dedicated to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion across our organization, and the Development and Outreach Coordinator will share these values and commitment. NCC recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Applicants and employees need not be Catholic. All are encouraged to apply.
Apply
Submit chronological resume to: Receptionist - . @nwcounseling.org
Listing Type
Jobs
Categories
Healthcare | Nonprofit
Position Type
Part Time
Experience Level
Entry Level
Employer Type
Direct Employer
Salary Min
21
Salary Max
22
Salary Type
/hr.
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