Sinai Health is looking for a Clinical Program Assistant, Palliative Care to support our Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care.

Each Clinical Program

Assistant (CPA) on our team is assigned a set of primary responsibilities but is expected to prove full coverage for other CPA responsibility areas as required.

The Temmy Latner

Centre for Palliative Care offers medical care and support to patients and their caregivers in their own home. We care for patients of all ages with serious, life-limiting illness who cannot easily travel to appointments or who have no clinic-based palliative care available to them. We also provide care in the hospital through our In-Hospital Care Program.

Manage palliative care referrals Initiate patient referrals to out-patient clinics or other palliative care programs Provide front reception duties including greeting visitors, answering and responding to telephone requests or forwarding calls as appropriate Manage incoming and outgoing patient information, including scanning and uploading into electronic medical records Provide administrative support to the physicians, as required, including the review, formatting and uploading dictated notes Keep records of,



and send out death notices to appropriate health professionals Receive and report shadow billing and after-fours billings Prepare the quarterly call schedule for the home-based and hospital-based programs, in collaboration with the Home-Care Lead Physician Successful completion of a Medical Secretary or Medical Office Assistant Diploma from an accredited educational institution ~2 years of recent medical secretarial experience working in a clinic/health care environment ~ Previous experience maintaining electronic health records ~ Applicants with proven equivalent recent and related training and experience may be considered Excellent telephone and interpersonal skills Demonstrated quality patient service Robust understanding of medical billing practices Advanced technical skills and proficiency using electronic medical records and MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history Full Time Due to the nature of this position additional/varied hours may be required.

Replacement

Vacancy

📌 Clinical Program Assistant, Palliative Care (Toronto)
🏢 Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Sinai Health
📍 Toronto