Audiology Clinic Operations Assistant

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

• Fulfill your calling with SSM Health !

• Experience working with Children is a plus !

• Monday-Friday-8:00AM-4:30PM

• Day Shift-40 hours per week

• Primary location will be at Cardinal Glennon Hospital, may need to travel at one of our other locations.

Job Summary:

Provides office support for the Audiology department in addition to performing audiometric screenings.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitors and maintains daily and future schedules, including the supply schedule, allocate schedule and daily reconciliation of provider schedules.
• Coordinates buying, receiving, stocking and pricing of hearing aid products. Orders and maintains adequate inventory.
• Assists patients with understanding insurance benefits, discounts and payment options. Develops quotes for services and equipment. Creates contracts for orders.
• Verifies insurance and completes prior authorizations for hearing aid purchases.
• Performs industrial audiometric screenings (after certification).
• Performs minor hearing aid repairs and cleaning as needed.
• Maintains treatment rooms, stocks supplies, cleans and sterilizes instruments on a regular basis.
• Assists the Audiologist with testing of children through use of visual reinforcement audiometry and play audiometry and distraction during immittance testing.
• Rooms patients, prepares them for various types of testing.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• High school diploma or equivalent

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 

Resuscitation Certification Requirement: Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) required within 90 day of employment. Other resuscitation certifications may be required dependent on department.

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

4500000010 Audiology

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

• Flexible Payment Options: our volun