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Medical Support Assistant (OA)
Military Treatment Facilities under DHA
Department of Defense
Location
Location not specified
Salary
$37,937 - $48,377
per year
Type
Full-Time
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GS-4 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $30,286 - $39,372
Typical requirements: 1 year general experience. 2 years college or associate degree.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves working as a support assistant in a military clinic in South Korea, where you'll handle patient scheduling, greet visitors, answer calls, and manage health records using computer systems.
It's a good fit for someone with customer service experience in healthcare or office settings, who is organized, comfortable with technology, and open to living overseas without relocation support.
Entry-level candidates with relevant education or volunteer work in similar roles would also qualify.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience in customer service in a patient care setting, such as answering phones and greeting patients
- Experience using computer-based systems to schedule appointments or manage patient information
- Four years of education above high school in business, secretarial, technical school, or related fields (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to work at Camp Carroll clinic in South Korea (no PCS or LQA authorized)
- Proficiency in entering data from healthcare record database systems
- Skills in reconciling end-of-shift reports and processing
Full Job Description
About the Position: This position is located at the Family Medicine Service department at the Camp Carroll clinic in South Korea.
This is a Direct Hire Solicitation under the Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the DoD. No recruitment, relocation, or student loan repayment incentives are authorized for this position.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS) and Living Quarters Allowance (LQA) are not authorized.
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or specialized experience requirements described below.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that includes:1) providing customer service duties in a patient care setting, such as answering phones and greeting patients; and 2) using a computer-based system to schedule appointments or manage patient information.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).
OR Education: Four years of education above the high school level obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university.
OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.
To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60.
Add the two percentages. Major Duties:
- Manage patient appointment schedules for the clinic/practice.
- Schedule appropriate patient appointments manually and/or in a medical healthcare records system.
- Enter data from numerous healthcare record database systems.
- Reconcile end-of-shift/end-of-day processing and reports
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