Responsibilities

ABOUT SOUTH TEXAS HEALTH SYSTEM – CLINICS

Join our South Texas Health System Clinics (formerly Valley Care Clinics) team! Providers with South Texas Health System (STHS) Clinics deliver high quality family medicine, health screenings and advanced specialized care to the people of the Rio Grande Valley. STHS Clinics is committed to delivering quality healthcare and service excellence. Our clinics are affiliated with South Texas Health Systems’ four acute care hospitals, behavioral health hospital, six freestanding emergency rooms and one joint venture hospital. Specially trained and highly experienced, our physician group treats a wide range of conditions using advanced technologies and minimally invasive techniques.

Website: sthsclinics.com

The Administrative Assistant provides and oversees a wide variety of clerical and specialized administrative functions that may be of a critical or confidential nature. Delivers administrative support on projects that are moderate in scope and complexity with primary responsibilities that include capturing, preparing, and composing data for the IPM Leadership Team. The Administrative Assistant offers a developed level of professionalism to interact effectively within a diverse environment and accomplishes tasks and projects as assigned that require independent thinking, creative analysis, and minimal supervision.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Screens telephone calls, receives, and directs visitors, and resolves routine inquiries.

• Schedules and maintains calendar of appointments and schedules including travel itineraries.

• Coordination of internal meetings with outside vendors and management to include booking conference rooms, conference call information and at times meal planning.

• Prepares and distributes minutes of meetings, handling confidential information with discretion.

• Assists in revisions, formatting and editing of guidelines, policies and procedures and maintains the most updated version in appropriate database.

• Provides clerical support (filing copying, mailings, etc.)

• Organizes education programs for staff as directed by the IPM Leadership Team. May assist in Market programs, projects, and processes.

• Other duties as assigned.

  Independence Physician Management (IPM), a subsidiary of UHS, was formed in 2012 as the physician services unit of UHS. IPM develops and manages multi-specialty physician networks and urgent care clinics which align with UHS acute care facilities. It also provides select services for the Behavioral Health division of UHS. Through continuing growth, IPM operates in 11 markets across six states and the District of Columbia. Our leadership team, practitioners, and teams of healthcare professionals are collectively dedicated to improving the health and wellness of people in the communities we serve.

  Benefit Highlights

• Challenging and rewarding work environment.

• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off

• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans

• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan

• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!

• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

  About Universal Health Services (UHS), Inc.

  One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $14.3 billion in 2023. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies.

  Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 96,700 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.

  www.uhs.com

  Qualifications

  Requirements:

• High School graduate/ equivalent required.

• Technical School/ 2 Years College/ Associates Degree preferred.

• Minimum (3 years) experience using advanced computer skills and coordinating projects.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications required.

• Experience in healthcare billing preferred.

• Service-oriented/ customer-centric with strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• Strong organization skills and attention to detail.

• Ablility to multi-task

• Possess time managament skills to meet established time frames

• Results oriented with a proven track record of accomplishing tasks within a high-performing team environment.

• Research, and problem-solving ability

• Mainframe billing software (e.g., Cerner, Epic, IDX) Computer, scanner, printer, phone, physical files.

  EEO Statement

  All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

  We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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  At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.

  If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters.