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Advanced Medical Support Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 35 days ago
About the Role
Portland VA Medical center is looking to fill an Advanced Medical Support Assistant position in the Inpatient & Emergency Services Division (IESID) service line at their Portland, OR campus. The list generated from this announcement can be used up to 90 days to fill any additional vacancies that may arise.
What You'll Do
- →Advanced Medical Support Assistants provide administrative support to our clinical colleagues in the care of our Nation's Veterans.
- →Our mission is to provide efficient and effective healthcare services by promoting and enabling the delivery of timely, accurate, accessible health care.
- →VA is committed to cultivating a dedicated workforce of highly skilled employees who understand, believe in and take pride in VA's mission.
- →AMSAs are essential to the success of this mission and may be assigned to any department/service line of the medical center that have a need.
- →Duties will include but are not limited to: Determining health care eligibility for Veteran patients.
- →Administrative processing of Veteran patients in enrollment, benefits, and registration.
- →Counseling Veteran patients regarding entitlement enrollment for health care benefits and other special programs.
- →Obtaining essential information and documentation from Veteran patients for enrollment activities.
- →Performing scheduling functions for Veteran patients including appointments, cancellations, and re-scheduling.
- →Facilitating communication between Veterans and other facility consult departments.
- →Support of inpatient units and wards with administrative duties during day, evening, night, and weekend shifts.
- →Processing and record keeping of inpatient medical records.
- →Manual and electronic data entry.
- →Collation of statistical information.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 662248db-30ca-44d2-a887-f999a66f6a32
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