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Medical Support Assistant (Advanced) - Behavioral Health
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is in Behavioral Health Service at the El Paso VA Health Care System (EPVAHCS). The incumbent will be assigned to work within the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team, Community Base Outpatient Clinic's (CBOC), Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI), NPAT and will be involved in all aspects of patient access, consults, and scheduling for the service.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Medical Support Assistant: https://youtube.com/embed/EE9c4XkaELo Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The incumbent serves as an Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA) in the Behavioral Health Service (BHS) at EPVAHCS.
- →The incumbent's work impacts the administrative aspect of patient care including access, scheduling/coordinating appointments using advanced clinic access principles, collecting, and updating demographic and insurance information, managing the Electronic Waiting List (EWL ), assisting with Community Care Service requests, patient processing, and customer service.
- →Incumbent is responsible for assuring that various aspects of staffing, training, compliance, reporting, quality assurance, and budgetary initiatives are met.
- →These activities directly affect the revenue cycle, patient access to care, hospital performance goals and objectives, as well as VHA public image.
- →The incumbent plays an integral role in identifying and developing ways to resolve problems with the administrative and clinical staff on access, customer service, patient flow, revenue, and data validation issues.
- →His/her work also impacts processes, action plans, monitoring, and reporting.
- →Failure to perform these duties properly could result in the veteran not receiving the treatment to which he/she is entitled or priority access to care to which he/she is entitled.
- →The lack of coordination provided by this employee could negatively impact upon clinical and/or administrative functions.
- →A large part of the duties of a clinical support section employee is acting as a receptionist at the clinic, either face-to face or telephonically, requiring excellent customer service skills.
- →The work requires a high degree of judgment in responding to both employee and patient concerns and providing solutions to process problems as they affect day-to-day operations.
- →The work is mostly sedentary and is performed in various outpatient clinic or office settings responsible for treating patients with a wide variety of medical problems.
- →The performance of daily rounds to the assigned clinic areas is required.
- →This may include frequent visits to off-site clinics to fill-in for or interact with the clinical support section employees and clinical/administrative staff in these areas.
- →May be required to work staggered shifts and/or weekend clinics in support of advanced clinic access initiatives.
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.
- ✓There is no education substitution at this grade level.
Personality Fit
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