Supervisor, Access Services

• High School Diploma plus 7 years of registration and/or billing experience including three (3) years of experience in a healthcare environment.

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, or related field
• Leadership or supervisory experience
• CHAA Certification

• Supervises department staff by monitoring activities and productivity daily and takes appropriate action to ensure staff consistently meets performance standards
• Responsible for ensuring the team meets expectations for work queue productivity, quality, and customer service
• Seeks continuing education of regulatory changes and industry standards; ensures information is provided to staff timely and based on workload
• Documents personnel issues and promotes a balanced a conducive work environment
• Ensures all department, CABC, ICE, and UAMS policies are followed
• Establishes and maintains performance standards for productivity, quality, and compliance
• Implements process improvement and reports results
• Ensures staff is educated and conducts themselves in the performance of all duties
• Knowledge of individual responsibility and ensures staff preparedness following Joint Commission standards and facility safety and emergency preparedness standards
• Maintains current knowledge of the profession and all state and federal regulatory mandates.
• Maintains required job skills competencies and completes skills assessments annually
• Completes and maintains documentation of continuing education hours annually
• Supervises the day-to-day operations of the assigned Access Coordinators, and Patient Representatives.
• Responsible for knowing and understanding clinic policies/procedures and is able to act on these policies/procedures
• Schedules, reschedules, coordinates, and cancels appointments using the hospital systems
• Works closely with management to develop, implement, and maintain formalized training plans
• Responsible for annual training facilitation staff development and providing employee coaching.
• Responsible for employee evaluations.
• Works with CABC Support for timekeeping and other HR items.
• Promotes teamwork and models the core concepts of Patient Family-Centered Care (PFCC).
• Conducts and assists with crucial conversations with staff when disagreements occur and when necessary progressive discipline.
• Perform other duties as needed.

• Stand: Frequently
• Sit: Frequently
• Walk: Occasionally
• Bend, crawl, crouch, kneel, stoop or reach overhead: Frequently
• Lift and carry weight: 25 lbs
• Push and pull weight: 25 lbs
• Use hands to touch, handle or feel: Frequently
• Talk: Continuously
• Hear: Continuously
• Taste or smell: Occasionally
• Read, concentrate, think analytically: Continuously
• Physical Environment: Inside Medical Facility Environment

This position is subject to pre-employment screening (criminal background, drug testing, and/or education verification). A criminal conviction or arrest pending adjudication alone shall not disqualify an applicant except as provided by law. Any criminal history will be evaluated in relationship to job responsibilities and business necessity.  The information obtained in these reports will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law. 

Please contact askrecruitment@uams.edu for any recruiting related questions.

All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Site https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS  

Please do not send to listed recruitment contact.