Total 19 Junior Executive level Customer Service job vacancies in San Juan, Puerto Rico

As a Administrative Support Assistant your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Coordinates foreign and domestic travel for staff within the business team.
• Ensures traveler or other employee with purchase authority authorizes travel and initiates payment.
• Provides administrative support functions to assigned duty station. Maintains physical and automated records, reports, guidelines, and various office correspondence.
• Assists the Budget Technician as needed by monitoring budgets and following established guidelines to ensure the data are correctly entered, accounts reconciled, and supporting documents are generated.

As a Administrative Support Assistant your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Coordinates foreign and domestic travel for staff within the business team.
• Ensures traveler or other employee with purchase authority authorizes travel and initiates payment.
• Provides administrative support functions to assigned duty station. Maintains physical and automated records, reports, guidelines, and various office correspondence.
• Assists the Budget Technician as needed by monitoring budgets and following established guidelines to ensure the data are correctly entered, accounts reconciled, and supporting documents are generated.

The Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA) interact with both internal and external customers providing exceptional customer service and ensuring overall customer satisfaction. Candidates will be reviewed for minimum qualifications as outlined in the qualifications section of this announcement and referred to the Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System AMSA Interview panel. Ideal candidates resumes must be skilled in customer service, identify customer concerns, customer satisfaction and resolution, ability to operate computer programs, and scheduling of appointments. In addition, you will be contacted by various entities within Human Resources to begin all pre-employment processes and must satisfy all condition of employment before a firm offer of employment is made.

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Scheduling, canceling, re-scheduling patient appointments and/or consults.
• Entering no-show information.
• Monitoring appointment requests from multiple electronic sources.
• Participating in team huddles and team meetings to manage and plan patient care.
• Setting priorities and deadlines.
• Adjusting the flow and sequencing of the work to meet team and patient needs.
• Monitoring pre-appointment requirements to assure readiness for patient visit/procedure (e.g. X-Ray, Lab Work).
• Managing electronic wait list to verify and validate accuracy and resolve issues.
• Participating and providing input in problem solving on operational issues or procedures in team meetings.
• Performing administrative follow up actions.
• Evaluating patient information and clinic schedule lists to determine whether patient is vested.
• Educating providers about shared patients (those who receive their care at multiple VAs or those who have care in the community and bringing to the attention of the provider.

Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Extensive knowledge of SWS and its programs as they relate to administrative functions.
• Detailed knowledge of the organizational structure of the VA at local and higher levels, in-depth working knowledge of VA policies and regulations especially those pertaining to SWS and its Programs.
• Knowledge and ability to apply patient privacy regulations and release of information procedures.
• Knowledge of medical terminology and usages, (in general, medicine, surgical, geriatrics, hospital terms, medical abstracts, abbreviations, nursing, social work, pharmacology, aging, and home health), spelling, grammar, and composition, and ability to determine and follow required formats for VA memos and reports.
• Ability to plan effectively, set priorities, coordinate activities, have a high degree of skill in oral and written communications with a variety of people of different backgrounds and comprehension, and present a positive image of the VA to the community. This may include clerical, technical, administrative, and professional people at all levels in the medical center and community agencies.
• Ability to adapt to changing situations, to modify plans and demonstrate flexibility in changing circumstances, while displaying a high degree of interpersonal skill.
• Knowledge of the duties, priorities, commitments, policies, and program goals of SWS staff, and ability to support these with a spirit of teamwork in performing non-routine assignments. Knowledge sufficient to recognize which information is or is not relevant to the problem at hand. Ability to perform, plan and organize work in situations where numerous demands are made.
• Knowledge required to coordinate the work of the office with other stakeholders, and for recognizing the need for such coordination in various circumstances.
• Thorough knowledge of statistical and analytical processes and deductive reasoning to conduct problem and trend identification and resolution.
• Skill in use of Microsoft Work, Outlook, and Excel programs, scheduling, and other VISTA packages as indicated by duties of the position. Ability to retrieve information from CPRS to assist field staff with information needs by phone.
• Skill in operation and routine maintenance of facsimile and copier machines, as well as personal computers and printers.
• Ability to identify safety issues related to patient/staff safety and acts appropriately to report unsafe conditions.
• Skill in applying basic data gathering methods, such as standard interviewing or surveying techniques, to collect various types of factual information.
• Excellent telephone and personal interaction skills to ensure tact and diplomacy in dealing with veterans, families, high level officials, staff and other administrative and clinical departments, representatives from private and community corporations, members of service organizations and other stakeholders.
• Plans and carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignment in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training or accepted practices in the occupation.
• The work includes various duties involving different and unrelated processes and methods.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Coordinates and provides administrative support;
• Schedules and manages appointments;
• Screens calls and visitors to the office, referring to other staff members as appropriate;
• Composes and prepares correspondence, forms, letters, memos, and reports;
• Schedules conferences, coordinates meetings and prepares meeting minutes;
• Maintains office supplies and equipment;
• Serves as the timekeeper for the service;
• Receives and reviews all incoming correspondence; and
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The Supervisory MSA is responsible for managing and supervising the appointment management services within OCC and supervises one Lead Advanced Medical Support Assistant and ten Advanced Medical Support Assistants (MSAs) within the program. He/she collaborates with and has an extensive knowledge of all clinical applications, services and programs, to include but not limited services within the OCC. The Supervisory MSA is flexible, multi-skilled and creative in solving everyday challenges unique to this standalone service. The Supervisory MSA assigns work and daily priorities to the Lead and Advanced MSAs and ensures the goals and mission of the Office and Health Care System are being met. S/he is responsible for all performance management functions related to Lead and Advanced MSAs.

The Supervisory MSA applies principles, methods and guidelines to evaluate administrative operations in order to determine best practices for organizing administrative work and the flow of information throughout the service. S/he must take into consideration the staff ratios and skill mixes needed to accomplish the work. Analysis results in recommendations for improvement and implementation of new systems and processes that are discussed with the rest of the management team for decisions regarding the efficiency of service operations. The Supervisory MSA performs duties related to the receipt, intake and indexing of health and administrative information.

The Supervisory MSA will interface with personal computer (PC) applications as well as numerous Veterans Health Information and Technology Architecture (VistA), applications. The Supervisory MSA will serve as a backup for time and leave management processing. The Supervisory MSA must possess a high degree of tact and diplomacy when dealing with Veterans who have multiple medical problems and may be frustrated with the administrative process associated with coordinating treatment with community care providers.

The Supervisory MSA provides a variety of complex and unique duties in support of the MISSION Act. The Supervisory Advanced Medical Support Assistant will conduct and lead daily team huddles to assist with the coordination of patient care management, deploying customer contact and call center strategies, monitoring performance of the unit and make recommendations for improving the Veteran access to care and experience with VA and community care providers. The Supervisory MSA plans and directs programs within the Office of Community Care. The Supervisory MSA is responsible for implementing and deploying operational changes when necessary to ensure care in the community is provide in accordance with MISSION Act guidelines.

The Supervisory MSA has full supervisory responsibility of at least one lead MSA and ten Advanced MSA's. Assignments at this level include but are not limited to; assigning and evaluating the work of subordinate staff, resolving complex problems to ensure patient requirements are met. Analyzing staffing and workload patterns to ensure appropriate coverage of workload needs. Planning work to be accomplished by subordinates, setting and adjusting priorities. Determining appropriate tours of duty. Approving or denying leave. Evaluating performance, rating employees, and recommending performance awards. Interviews and selects subordinate staff. Advises Program Manager with process improvement suggestions and new strategies by extracting and analyzing data to better manage care access and ensure compliant appointment management practices per the MISSION Act and scheduling directive guidelines.

The Supervisory MSA manages CPRS view alerts from providers, correspondence from external community care affiliates, caregivers, family support staff and Veterans for needed actions involving patient care and follow-up. Ensures subordinate Lead and Advanced MSAs appropriately manage inquiries and requests for care in the community to ensure requests are routed to the appropriate external provider and scheduled timely in accordance with MISSION Act and VA guidelines. Supervisory MSA has full administrative and professional responsibility for planning and directing the Lead and Advanced MSAs activities. In certain situations, the Supervisory MSA will be required to conduct scheduling assignments if no Lead MSAs or AMSAs are available to schedule patients or if the situation is complex or emotionally or politically charged.

Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm or as determined by supervisor.
Compressed/Flexible: At Supervisor discretion
Telework: Yes, position eligible
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

The incumbent functions as a program and administrative assistant to the ICMHRS/VRC Social Worker Coordinator and provides support to both teams. The incumbent takes initiative in certain aspects of program planning and development, scheduling, manages resources and establishes and maintains communications with such services as Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Service, OI&T, Fiscal, Quality Management and patient care services. Primary duty station is San Jose CBOC throughout the work week.

Major duties and responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Provides major and complex program, administrative and technical assistance in the day-to-day operations and program planning/evaluation for the ICMHRS and VRC
• Gathers and organizes and facilitates the submission of all data for performance measures and reporting this data to the care team weekly, including local ICMHRS, PRRC and Northeastern Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC) in order to meet all deadlines, set by VACO. Using a national data base (KLF) to obtain comparative data on encounters tracked for performance measures. .
• Provides customer service, general information and/or responds to telephone inquiries - assisting veterans, families, medical center staff and community agency personnel who are seeking ICMHRS or PRRC services. This may include identifying and contacting available clinicians in response to urgent needs of Veterans, families, and caregivers.
• Provides general clerical and administrative support coordination.
• Provides customer and general information for telephone calls from ICMHRS and PRRC team members in the clinic, field, or other program locations. Remains available to other VA staff, and/or community agency staff, regarding program inquiries, program concerns, etc. Incumbent obtains as much information as possible, provides information and resolves problems independently, when possible, prioritizes, and makes decisions regarding caller referral based on specific caller needs. The incumbent ensures timely response to team members that potentially have an emergent or urgent care need through prompt identification of the problem and appropriate team referral. Interacts with visitors and co-workers in a courteous, tactful, helpful manner, exercising mature judgment and diplomacy.
• Produces a wide range of documents using a variety of office automation technologies. Applies advanced work processing software to materials involving complex formats such as automatic generation of indices and tables of contents, importation of graphics, charts, or special symbols or precise alignment of multiple columns. Prepares files and charts in a timely manner, ensuring that all relevant correspondences and clinical material pertinent to ICMHRS and PRRC are in place.
• Creates and maintains respective electronic Program Manuals to assist ICMHRS and PRRC staff in the implementation of VACO directives, policies and procedures and accompanying databases.
• Receives/screens and manages all incoming and outgoing documents, publications, directives, and correspondence, determining appropriate action and/or response with minimal direction from ICMHRS and PRRC Coordinators. Collects, identifies, records and tracks community resources as appropriate to ICMHRS and PRRC programs. Attends trainings, as needed, to fulfill ICMHRS and PRRC program and VAPAHCS facility requirements

• Duties listed below are at the full performance level.
• Updates leadership on all matters impacting internal and external partners.
• Plans and monitor office budget and enter information into the budgetary workplan.
• Prepares confidential and sensitive correspondence for the leadership.
• Assists with processing grants and agreements and ensuring that all paperwork and requests are accurate.
• Assists with special project assignments related to highly controversial and confidential matters, office continuity, and internal direction of the office.
• Formulates a variety of technical correspondence, incorporating leadership’s philosophy and goals.
• Participates in management level meetings and discussions related to administrative and management support.
• Supervises 20% or less of the time

Major Duties and Responsibilities to include but not be limited to:

• Schedules, cancels, re-schedules patient's appointments and/or consults; entering no-show information and appointment cancellation information.
• Sends appointment notifications, instructions, and reminder/cancellation letters to patients, checking in patients arriving for their appointments.
• Verifies and updates demographic and performing basic eligibility, co-pays and preauthorization requirements for specific coverage and insurance capture.
• Logs into automatic computer-based phone system to answer and direct multi-line phone systems in a courteous manner. Taking complete accurate telephone messages and/or documentation of contact into CPRS via view alerts.
• Checks and responds to voicemail.
• Monitors incoming and outgoing faxing and distribution.
• Monitors and/or manages multiple reports, lists and suspenses to include but not limited to: electronic wait list, unseen report, recall reminders, open encounters/EARRS, NEARS, Veteran Choice List, missed opportunity report, consult management and tracking.
• May be required to perform the following: Timekeeping, Encounter completion, Coordination of Hoptel requests, Patient Travel, ADPAC (Automated Data Processing Applications Coordinator).
• Enters appropriate, complete, accurate information into electronic record (CPRSNISTA) and other clinical information systems as appropriate to the area assigned.
• Responsible for Lobby Management to include but not limited to: Keeping lobby presentable, restocking flyers and or brochures, be mindful of Veterans that have been waiting longer than 15 minutes.
• Performs typing work from written material using word processing software and equipment (such as but not limited to Microsoft office applications). Responds to incoming correspondence Performs general filing. May maintain office supplies as a designated shopper. Receives sorts and delivers to the appropriate individual's incoming and outgoing mail or other documents.
• Completes initial paperwork for walk-in "triage" patient's, notifies the appropriate nursing staff members and brings urgent matters to immediate attention of nursing, or physician staff.
• Collaborates effectively with the other staff to ensure seamless care.
• Acknowledges and/or completes routed view alerts with-in 48 business hours.
• Types routine correspondence, progress reports, memorandums and statistical reports using Vista, MS Word and Excel.
• Maintains up to date training on VA Scheduling Requirements.
• Provides on-the-job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices and may provide feedback to the new employee.
• Responds to view alerts via CPRS within 48 hours.
• Prepares for clinic visits to include PACT scrubbing.
• Coordinates patient discharge.
• Reconciles end-of-shift/end-of-day processing and reports.
• Generates, receiving and distributing mail to medical staff and patients.
• Orders and keeps records of supplies.
• Files results of treatment in medical records electronically.
• Determines patients' eligibility for treatment and paid travel expenses, if applicable.
• Records physicians' orders for patients on a variety of records, if applicable.
• Selects, completes, and routs requests for patient activities and treatment procedures.
• Schedules appointments for patients with other medical services.
• Prepares patient projection reports.
• Serves as timekeeper for permanent and contracted staff.
• Must have minimum of basic knowledge of the following eligibility, TRICARE & ChampVA eligibility, Release of Information process, Vetlink, Kiosk, MyHealtheVet, HIMS, office equipment to include copier/fax machine, and preauthorization requirements for specific coverage (i.e., TRICARE, sharing agreements, etc.).
• Occasional travel to the San Bruno CBOC for training or other back office assignments.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

- Responsible for managing Human Resource aspects of service operations, including hiring process, disciplinary action and Labor/Management relations. Responsible for resource management and distribution, assessing staffing levels and needs, space planning, and assessing equipment and technology needs along with corresponding requests for needed resources.
- Prepares performance plans and performance evaluations; recommendations for appointment, awards, advancements and ensuring new hires are properly vetted. Incumbent monitor's staff competencies and updates staff competency folders in accordance with all regulatory guidelines and identifying continuing education and training needs.
- Skillful in interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution. Complies with and ensures that Department of Veterans Affairs EEO guidelines are followed within the Service.
- Supervise, direct and manage a diverse MSA staff and is involved to on-the-job team problem solving; developing, implementing and evaluating improvements to work processes and identifying continuing training needs. Supports and is involved in teamwork and/or team building both within the incumbent's Service and other Services.
- Responsible for a full range of functions associated with the daily operation of the assigned clinic, ensuring that referrals for the section are processed, treatments are provided, and documentation is completed according to TJC, CARF and service policies.
- Provides advanced professional oversight and consultation to MSA staff and evaluates complex processes with great autonomy. Incumbent develops and implements new processes and provides guidance for MSA staff.
- Consults with medical staff through patient presentations, clinics and confer.
- Responsible to continually evaluate the success of ongoing improvement projects programs and recognizes the need for new programs. As the need for new programs is identified, the incumbent must develop and initiate new treatment programs which apply current research finding.
- Monitor's inventory, projects equipment and supply need for treatments and submits requests of those if indicated.
- Responsible safe operations of the clinic, ensuring the safe environment, the work area is secured, and equipment is clean.
- Possesses subject matter knowledge of the organization and Service in order to respond to requests, inquiries, problems, and to identify and communicate any discrepancies in scheduling or improperly completed orders. Incumbent must be able to follow extensive guides in form of instructions, manuals, regulations, and precedents that apply to the work. Incumbent uses own judgment in locating and selecting appropriate guidelines, policies, procedures, and other sources and adapts them according to the circumstances of the specific situation.
- Responsible for data collection and validation. He/she will ensure that encounter errors (e.g., open encounters) and appointment wait time errors are corrected timely. He/she will also ensure that consults are addressed by staff in a timely manner. This will include setting goals, assigning and reviewing work, setting deadlines, and taking corrective action when goals are not me

Work Schedule: Full Time 40 hours a week. Exact work schedule to be discussed during interview.
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

As a MISSION SUPPORT ASSISTANT (OA) , your typical work assignments may include:

• Performing administrative support services, to include Records Management, Privacy Act, official mail control, postal management, forms management, correspondence management, reports control, record keeping, etc.
• Performs a variety of clerical duties to include, prepares and maintains correspondence pertaining to travel, time and attendance, data processing and maintenance, personal property (accountable and non-accountable), supply management, human resource liaison assistance, records management, and TFO management.
• Assists with managing division fleet services, including vehicles timely maintenance, service, repairs, supplement.
• Responsible for providing technical assistance for Division's personal property.

• Performs the duties of the Team Coach in his/her absence and shares in those responsibilities on a daily basis.
• Ensures that the team's quality and timeliness of service meets performance indicator goals.
• Responsible for the cost-effective use of resources to accomplish the team's assigned outcomes.
• Gathers, interprets, and recommends appropriate action based on a wide range of data addressing service concerns.
• Analyzes and interprets laws, rules and regulations and their effect on the establishment of new policies, procedures, and/or methods of operation.
• Monitor leave balances, approve/deny leave, and certify timecards.
• Run production and workload reports.
• Communicate with senior management.

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Compile information for any required annual and special reports, meetings, conferences, and memorandums from required sources.
• Receive visitors at the logistics areas and provides support addressing telephone calls for the Service.
• Provides support to administrative personnel of the Supply Chain Service.
• Coordinate with FMS the maintenance and cleaning of all areas and rooms assigned to the Supply Chain Warehouse office.
• Provided support with the reservation of training rooms assigned to the Supply Chain Warehouse office.
• Receive, review, and processes all mail Internal and External in accordance with established criteria.
• Service as timekeeper of the designated area. Follow regulations in accordance with policies. Review time and attendance to ensure completeness prior to certification.
• Responsible for scheduling and coordinating the agenda for monthly staff meetings, coordinating meetings, and of maintaining file of minutes of the multiple committees that she/he attends.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Duties consist of the following, but are not limited to:

• Record and transcribes meeting minutes, prepares agenda and keep the open issues tracking grid.
• Serve as focal point to track office assignments to ensure timely reply or actions and to ensure that deadlines are met.
• Maintain and controls records of incoming correspondence and follow-up working process to ensure timely reply and/or action.
• Gather, compiles providers' specific data such as productivity, compliance with mandatory trainings, practice review reports, unsigned notes, consults, etc.
• Type memorandums, minutes, letters, reports, and other general office materials including confidential matters pertaining to disciplinary actions, boards of investigation and controlled correspondence for which is required to maintain high level of confidentiality.

WHAT IS THE TAXPAYER SERVICESDIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

This cadre provides for the advance identification and utilization of a cadre of well qualified and highly motivated employees to fill temporary non-bargaining unit management assistant positions. As a Management & Program Assistant Cadre, you will be responsible for: Following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Identifies potential and actual problems and probable causes. Researches a variety of issues, gathers pertinent statistics or information, reports findings to higher level employee, and may recommend corrective action for aspects of a program or function.
• Monitors, reviews, and evaluates operations and interrelationships with other functions regarding workflow, work redundancy, or systemic problems and report findings to higher level employee(s).
• Verifies completeness and accuracy of controls to ensure compliance with established procedures and formats.
• Revises procedures, controls, etc., as instructed by analyst(s) or comparable positions.
• Drafts memoranda, preliminary reports, and charts showing findings or recommendations.