• Job Description

  Req#: 841818700
  Roseburg VA Medical Center is looking to fill Advanced Medical Support Assistant positions located at the main Roseburg VA Medical Center in Roseburg, Oregon and the Eugene Community Based Outreach Clinics located in Eugene, Oregon.
  
  The list generated from this announcement can be used up to 90 days to fill any additional vacancies that may arise.
  
  
  
  

  Duties

  
  

  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.
  - Entry of Physician orders and consult requests.
  - Prepares Veteran patient statistics.
  - Providing reception to incoming and outgoing customers and communication.
  - Utilizes Microsoft Office software to compile data and formulate reports.
  
  
  Work Schedule: Typical tour of duty is Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm. Available tours will be discussed during the interview process.
  Compressed/Flexible:Not Available
  Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
  Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
  Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases . When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
  Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
  Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
  Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
  Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
  Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
  Telework: Not Available
  Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
  Functional Statement #: 000000
  Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
  

  
  

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• About the company

  The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with integrating life-long healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 1700 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country.

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