Reports To: Executive Director/Administrator, Clinical Director and/or Director of Operations About Luminary Hospice: At Luminary Hospice, we are a mission-driven organization that empowers our team members to shape our culture in order to allow them to provide the highest quality support to patients and families throughout their entire end-of-life journey. Our mission is to deliver personalized care that radiates compassion and preserves dignity for all that we are honored to serve on their end-of-life journey. We are centered on caring for the whole person – with expert medical care, pain management as well as emotional and spiritual support along with resources, information, and emotional support for families and caregivers.

About The Role

: The Patient Team Assistant is responsible for support the business operations function at Luminary Hospice inclusive of administrative support, coordination of medical staff activities, and acting as a liaison between clinical staff and business operations team.

Responsibilities

Duties: Provides assistance to the Executive Director/Administrator, Director of Clinical Services and Director of Operations, preserving the confidential nature of items of which he/she has knowledge. He/she must maintain the files, supplies, and general office condition in an orderly manner. Assists the hospice team members with ordering patient durable medical equipment, sending faxes, and email correspondence.

Assists with ordering and maintaining appropriate inventory of medical supplies for the field staff. Assists the Clinical Director in maintaining schedules for field staff and notifying personnel and facilities of changes in assignments. Maintains open charts by filing all clinical documentation in a timely manner.

Prepares for team meeting by having appropriate patient charts ready for the meeting, preparing the Plan of Care Updates, sending IDG meeting notes to each attending physician. Answers telephone inquiries and channels them appropriately. Sends, tracks and maintains the physician orders (doc tracking) in the EMR in a timely fashion to ensure proper flow of billing.

Maintains the patient census list, IDG meeting templates, morning call minutes, etc. Other duties as assigned.

performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.

Requirements

and expectations. Emotional Intelligence: Demonstrates knowledge on how to manage oneself and how to interact successfully with others. Time Management: Demonstrate ability to manage your time productively and efficiently.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Qualifications

: Minimum of two (2) years’ experience preferably in hospice or health care, or graduation from a one (1) or two (2) year business college preferred. Is at least 18 years of age. Proficient in MS Office applications and ability to learn department and job-specific software systems.

Demonstrate organizational skills. Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrate analytical skills when problem-solving.

Demonstrate high attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy. Core Competencies: Communication: Demonstrate knowledge to reply and receive information to and from others.