Program Assistant

FLSA Status:          Nonexempt

Original Date:      

Last Revision:       May 2018

 

JOB SUMMARY:  Provides non-clinical support in the daily operation of the department. Assists with planning, implementing, and follow up of courses, programs, meetings and other work activities.  Maintains data systems related to quality and performance improvement, and develops associated reports. 

 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:  High school diploma or GED equivalent.  Associate's or Bachelor's degree preferred.  Program development/planning and experience in a hospital setting preferred.

 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION:  N/A

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Assists with course/program development, implementation and oversight.
2. Assists clients by providing information and/or resources.
3. Collects, reviews, and compiles data, statistics and materials relevant to quality and performance improvement reports and projects.
4. Prepares and edits written materials to ensure a quality output.
5. Performs financial duties for department.
6. Ensures the quality of professional services by updating knowledge, skills and continuing professional growth.

 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Superior organizational, technology, informatics skills

Negotiation and conflict resolution

Willingness to use considerable discretion and independent judgment

Knowledge of medical terminology

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Comfortable, clean, office environment

Significant amount of computer interface

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

0% 35% 65%     to to to     35% 65% 100% N/A Activity   X     Standing X       Walking     X   Sitting   X     Bending   X     Reaching with arms     X   Finger and hand dexterity     X   Talking     X   Hearing     X   Seeing         Lifting, carrying, pushing and or pulling: X       20 lbs. maximum X       50 lbs. maximum       X 100 lbs. maximum

 

 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.