Operations Assistant at EHA Clinics

EHA Clinics, a subsidiary of eHealth Africa, is a health care network operating across Nigeria that provides high-quality, innovative, data-driven, and technology-enabled services. EHA Clinics delivers a comprehensive range of state of the art health care services in each location, e.g,  general consultations, laboratory investigations, pharmaceuticals, annual medical checks, child wellness checks, ultrasonography, and specialized services (urgent care, telemedicine, home care, dental care, and ophthalmology).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Operations Assistant

Location: Sangotedo, Lagos
Department: Operations
Reports to: Clinical Operations Manager

Mission Statement

• We are on a mission to deliver quality health care that is accessible, effective, and affordable.
• By leveraging technology and an exceptional team, we provide a superior experience, improved outcomes, and reduced pricing for our individual, family, and business members.

Core Values:

• Customer Experience:  We deliver ever-increasing value and convenience to our customers and ensure they are treated with the utmost respect and service regardless of income or social status.
• Quality: We strive to improve our customers' health, families, and community. We will continuously improve our quality to provide health care services according to the best available science.
• Safety: We ensure our staff are trained to perform their duties safely and reduce the spread of infections. Our facilities and processes are designed to ensure maximum safety for our customers.
• Staff Engagement: We invest in the well-being, training, and development of our staff.
• Financial Stewardship: We work to reduce waste and maximize value to our customers, investors, and partners.

Our services:

• Medical Services
• Research and Informatics
• Pharmacy
• Laboratory & Diagnostics
• Community Health (REACH Program)
• Telehealth and Telemedicine.

Mission Objective  

• Clinical services operations department is responsible for the smooth running of the clinics, by providing support to the medical team to ensure the delivery of quality healthcare.
• The operations assistant manages appointment schedules for both the patient and doctor ensuring that patient wait times are kept at the minimum.
• They also provide information about the services and products of the Clinics when visitors make an enquiries as well as handling patient billing.

Duties and Responsibilities
Purpose:

• Attends to patients at the clinic, triaging and classifying patients for optimal care create, update, and maintain low-level records and databases related to Odoo, EHA Care etc
• Ensuring the smooth running of the clinical operation in the clinics thereby encouraging a high patient flow and adherence to schedules. 
• Sales of clinical products such as membership packages e.t.c
• Scheduling appointments and keeping track of patient wait time, Initiate prompt communication and reminders with patients on appointments through SMS, phone calls, emails etc

Engagement:

• Providing information about the services and products of the Clinics when visitors make an enquiry. 
• Acts as liaison person between the patient and other departments. Resolving queries and requests from the patients to the laboratory, medical and pharmacy teams.
• Act as liaison officers between HMO clients and EHA Clinics; confirming patient eligibility, seeking approvals, pre-authorizations and service coverage enquiries from the HMOs

Delivery:

• Patient billing management- receipt of payments from clients and HMOs via various payment methods not limited to cash payments, bank transfers, POS e.t.c 
• Supports managers and employees through a variety of tasks related to organization and communication
• Accomplishing organizational goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Key Area Of Note:

• Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals, etc.
• Research unusual symptoms and treatment options, through consultation with physicians and other medical specialists.

Key Skills And Attributes 

• Hold Computer literacy
• Excellent Communication and Customer Service
• Caring, Compassionate, Dedicated and Professional
• Working Under Pressure
• Humane, Empathetic and Supportive Bedside Manner
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Problem solving and Initiative
• Time Management and Organization
• Attention to Detail.

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 moderate, but can become louder at times due to group discussions or activities.
• EHA Clinics is a tobacco-free environment. 

Remuneration
NGN 100,000 Monthly Gross.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.