About the Role
YSM is seeking a Patient Services Administrator to provide excellent, welcoming, efficient, and professional receptionist and client referral support at the Evergreen Health Centre. The role involves developing skills in relationship building with hard-to-reach populations, crisis intervention, conflict management, and empowering community members.
Responsibilities
- Provide a welcoming and warm atmosphere to community members, volunteers, students, and staff.
- Ensure privacy and confidentiality.
- Manage the flow of the reception area, directing visitors, contractors, and deliveries.
- Manage conflict and ensure safety.
- Manage and answer calls, emails, faxes, and mail, redirecting as necessary.
- Schedule and coordinate clinic appointments with community members, volunteers, and staff.
- Manage wait lists, screening, intake, and registration of new patients.
- Support volunteer needs, including check-in and preparing clinical rooms.
- Input and update data in databases including Google Sheets, Paradigm, CHR EMR, OSCAR EMR, and Salesforce.
- Ensure accurate data entry and documentation.
- Process health record requests.
- Keep informed of and outreach to community resources.
- Connect community members to internal and external resources.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners.
- Maintain infection prevention and control measures.
- Provide administrative support to the health centre.
- Process forms, gifts-in-kind donations, and courier/mail deliveries.
- Be an active team member of the wider YSM community.
- Respond to emergency situations in accordance with YSM policies and procedures, including assessing when to call for assistance.
Requirements
- A minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in reception work or office administration in a medical environment.
- Experience working with vulnerable and marginalized populations.
- Experience working in a walk-in urgent care setting.
- Excellent working knowledge of EMRs, Salesforce, MS Office software, Google Drive etc.
- Good telephone voice, tactful, diplomatic, and friendly.
- Strong verbal and written business English communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
- Prompt, reliable, adaptable, self-motivated, conscientious, and innovative.
- Experience working in a multicultural, multi-faith setting, and those with multiple challenges.
- Ability to keep composure and prioritize effectively during high-stress periods and situations.
- Ability to professionally and compassionately handle confidential, sensitive material.
- A demonstrated personal commitment to the principles of faith values and mission of YSM.
- A Police Record Check (Vulnerable Sector) is required.
Skills
- Reception work
- Office administration
- Medical environment administration
- Working with vulnerable and marginalized populations
- Walk-in urgent care setting operations
- EMR systems
- Salesforce
- MS Office software
- Google Drive
- Telephone communication
- Business English communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution
- Data entry
- Documentation
- Health record processing
- Community resource outreach
- Collaboration
- Infection prevention and control
- Administrative support
- Form processing
- Donation processing
- Mail/courier handling
- Teamwork
- Emergency response
- Crisis prevention intervention
- Trauma-informed care
- CPR First Aid
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Full-time
- 37.5 hours per week
Experience Level
- 1-2 years
Education Level
- Medical office administration certification an asset
Salary/Compensations
- $44,156.55
Benefits
- Group RRSP matching
- Annual leave
- Paid personal days
- Comprehensive health and dental care coverage
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (including counselling by Christian professionals)
About the Company
- Yonge Street Mission (YSM) is a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to ending chronic poverty in Toronto.
- Founded in 1896, YSM transforms lives through holistic programs and services, enabling vulnerable individuals and communities to move from surviving to thriving.
- YSM invests in its staff, seeking diverse individuals who are Christians with a heart for those in need, a desire to transform lives, and who treat everyone with dignity and respect.
Equal Opportunity
- YSM welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
- YSM does not use any form of artificial intelligence (AI) at any stage of the recruitment process, including candidate screening, shortlisting, assessment, and selection.
