Booking Clerk

Description:

• Utilizing a computerized scheduling system, schedule and book patient appointments and follow-up appointments which includes booking complex interdisciplinary appointments, adjusting arrangements in accordance with patient and departmental requirements and notifying both patient and clinician, ensuring that appropriate date, time, and location are provided to patient, and placing appointment reminder calls to patients/families.
• Receive and register patients within a computerized scheduling system upon arrival.
• Ensure patient demographics and appropriate information is complete and accurate and follow up with appropriate parties as necessary. Advise appropriate professional that the patient has arrived.
• Perform receptionist and other clerical duties including answering telephones, responding to inquiries and requests for information, obtaining patient files as necessary, greeting patients and families, printing daily and/or monthly schedules, and forwarding problems and complex queries to appropriate personnel.
• Assemble and maintain client charts by utilizing appropriate forms and layout in accordance with established procedures and filing documentation. Telephone physicians’ offices or hospitals to request client information/documentation to ensure accuracy of records and charts.
• Perform referral functions including duties such as gathering additional/missing information, performing data entry, and receiving and processing related paperwork.
• Schedule new referrals based on established criteria and works with physicians, clinic nurses and other allied health professionals to appropriately schedule referrals based on clinical indicators.

What you bring

• Completion of Grade 12.
• Two (2) years’ recent experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

You are able to:

• Keyboard 45 w.p.m.
• Possess knowledge of medical terminology
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Deal with others effectively.
• Organize work.
• Operate related equipment.
• Physically carry out the duties of the position.