Sinai Health is looking for an Administrative Assistant to support our Department of Surgery.
The Administrative Assistant is an integral part of a busy and dynamic clinical practice within the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. In this role, you will be expected to exercise sound judgment and independence while managing the day-to-day related administrative activities. You will demonstrate a strong commitment to quality customer service, applying excellent problem solving and communication skills to ensure the success of a physician’s clinical practice within the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital.
In this role you will:
- Schedule patient appointments for clinics or operative procedures
- Validate OHIP health cards and hospital registration information
- Prepare charts for daily clinics and makes sure all results are filed on chart
- Review and transfer messages to physicians with patient chart for follow-up. Prepare charts for new patient referrals as required
- Retrieve release of information documents from patient charts in order to forward information to other physicians, prepare charts for patient rounds
- Maintain physicians calendars and schedules. Process all dictated clinical notes (i.e.: fax to referring physicians)
- Establish forms, tables, spread sheets, etc. to capture monthly statistics
- Function in a public relations role with both “walk-in” and telephone clients; provide timely, friendly and informative service
- Work collaboratively with other administrative support staff
- Communicate and maintain working relationships with several institutions
- Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required
