Job Description

Front Office Supervisor

The Front Office Supervisor at Internal Medicine provides leadership, expert guidance, and oversight for PAS Trainees, Specialists, and Resource Specialists consistent with operational requirements and customer service philosophy of OHSU and the Department of Internal Medicine. Provides input and guidance for process improvement and customer satisfaction. Overall responsible for directing and coordinating the daily functions and duties of the front office, patient/clinician flow, compliance with regulatory requirements, ensuring education and training is up to date, HR management, scheduling (daily, weekly, and monthly), quality projects, safety for staff, patients, and visitors, and attending meetings. Provides back up support for clinical staff, including support for clinical support staff and providers.

Function/Duties of Position

• Supervises front office staff and provides daily guidance in problem solving. Monitors successful completion of competencies, makes recommendations for salary increases, approved and assigns, and PAS work. Works as back up for all front office and clinical staff and its functions. Works in concert with Practice Manager to recruit, train, and counsel employees, develop work plans, participate in discipline up to and including dismissal. Participates in evaluations and setting long and short term goals for front office staff. Enters and monitors staff schedules in Kronos timekeeping. Encourages a cohesive team approach to the day-to-day operations. Leads by example. Provides ongoing feedback to staff.
• Monitors Clinical Operations: Investigates clinic scheduling errors, patient volume and flow, unkept appointments and reschedules, clinicians' time utilization, recommending changes as needed. Recommends and implements operational changes as needed.
• Supervises Managed Care Coordinators (PAS Resource Specialists). Participates in setting goals and maintaining standards. Assists in maintaining and coordinating referral and authorization services. Makes sure that the FTE supports the number of referrals processed.
• Provides high quality customer service to both external and internal customers to meet and/or exceed service standards. Serves as a role model for all clinical employees. Communicates with patients/families, or other health care team members in a timely, cost efficient, and courteous manner.
• Personnel management: Creates and maintains the monthly, weekly, and daily staffing schedules taking into account clinician variance and employee vacation and sick time; ensures all staff are up to date with training; hires, disciplines, and terminates staff in concert with Practice Manager; completes employee evaluations (probationary and annual); responds to grievances; creates and updates job descriptions; promotes staff development.
• Maintains reports on phone system and stats to ensure patient satisfaction and prompt care. Keeps phone stats in appropriate range to meet goals.
• Meetings/Collaboration: Attends, participates, and leads meetings including but not limited to: back/front office meeting, all team, quality improvement, labor management, lean, and others as directed by the Practice Manager. Collaborates with the Practice Manager and other members of the leadership team.
• Provides support for front office and clinical needs.

Required Qualifications

• Associates degree or equivalent education and experience
• Two years front line clerical experience in clinical setting with previous lead experience. Experience in managed care, billing, scheduling, and HR.
• Electronic medical records, scheduling, Microsoft Office Suite, HR - hiring, training, discipline, termination, budget management, exceptional customer service skills, multi-line phone system, medical insurance - managed care, medical terminology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Experience in managed care, billing, scheduling, EMR and HR.

Additional Details

• Available to work Monday - Friday on flexible schedules - some Saturdays. Exposure to ill patients.
• Walking through clinics, working for extended periods at computer stations

Why Apply to OHSU?

We are Oregon's only public academic health center. In addition to caring for patients, we lead groundbreaking research. We also train the next generation of health care professionals. As Portland's largest employer, we give you opportunities to learn and advance in a system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington. All are welcome. OHSU welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, national origins, religions and sexual orientations. We are striving to build an anti-racist, multicultural institution and encourage people with diverse backgrounds to apply. To request reasonable accommodation, contact askhr@ohsu.edu

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