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Medical administrative assistant
Pa Administrative assistant in medical institution Health services administrative assistant Healthcare assistant Healthcare secretary Medical pa Medical administrative assistant Medical assistant Medical institution administrative assistant Medical institution personal assistant Medical receptionist Personal assistant Secretary in medical institution
Medical administrative assistants work very closely with health professionals. They provide office support such as correspondence, fixing appointments and answering queries of patients.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Scheduling and confirming medical appointments and communicating messages for medical staff; and patients;
(b) Compiling, recording and reviewing medical charts, reports, documents and correspondence;
(c) Interviewing patients to complete forms, documents and case histories;
(d) Completing insurance and other claims forms;
(e) Maintaining medical files and records and technical library;
(f) Preparing financial statements and billing procedures;
(g) Assisting in the preparation of budgets, drafting of contracts and purchasing or acquisition orders;
(h) Supervising the work of office support workers and other office staff.
Knowledge
- Nursing and midwifery
- Medicine
- Management and administration
- Law
- Secretarial and office work
Digital competencies
- Planning events and programmes
- Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
- Collaborating and liaising
- Entering and transforming information
- Managing budgets or finances
Digital competencies
- Managing, gathering and storing digital data
Personal competencies
- Working efficiently
- Collaborating in teams and networks
- Communicating
- Following ethical code of conduct
- Processing information, ideas and concepts
Professional groups of the occupation
Technicians and associate professionals
Business and administration associate professionals
Administrative and specialized secretaries
Medical secretaries
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Medical secretaries
37
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
16,82%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
15,63% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
83,78%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
51,35%
Part-time contracts
1,00% Turnover index
73
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
6%
Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
The market for this profile is hiring
Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age
Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.
Business and administration associate professionals
61%
39%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Business and administration associate professionals
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
What vacancies are published in the professional family?
Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year
Administrative and specialized secretaries
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Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.
What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?
Medical secretaries
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
The vacancies published are for working in:
Job vacancies posted by county
Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.
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