Pediatric Dental Office Assistant - Little Smiles of Hazelwood/Dardenne Prairie - Ozark, MO

Permanent Dental Receptionist / Front Desk Job

Ozark, MO

Job Description

Are you passionate about making a positive difference in children's lives? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to excel?
If so, we invite you to join our dedicated team as a Business Assistant!
As a vital member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of our office while providing exceptional service to our young patients and their families.
If you're organized, detail-oriented, and have a heart for helping others, we'd love to hear from you.
Join us in creating smiles and building brighter futures for children in our community!
The ideal candidate will have experience in dental receptionist duties and medical administrative support. The Business Assistant will be goal oriented, positive, and professional, as they will handle checking patients out after treatment and cleanings. This position needs to be team-centric, innovative, organized and detail focused with the ability to multitask.
Duties:

Reschedule appointments based on the patient and Dentist’s availability and needs
Greet patients and family as they exit the practice after treatment and cleanings
Record broken appointments and last minute cancellations in the patient’s chart
Analyze data to determine answers to questions from patients or members of the public
Maintain patient records
Accountability, coaching, and development
Schedule appointments
Processing Claims and Billing Statements
Delivering marketing campaigns
Reviewing accounts receivable and collections
Interfacing with insurance companies
Present Treatment Plans and Collect Co-pays
Maintain and Organize other front office duties as assigned
Organize and prioritize your duties

This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic healthcare environment and contribute to patient care! If you are a motivated individual with the required skills and experience, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding role.
Essential Functions:

Express Ideas and Information in written form clearly, succinctly, accurately, and in an organized manner.
Be organized, motivated, committed and self-directed.
Organize and structure work for effective performance and goal attainment, set and balance priorities
Posses a positive attitude about the practice, the service and the products sold by the practice
Work cooperatively and collaboratively with others to achieve goals by sharing or integrating ideas, knowledge, skills, information, support, resources, and responsibilities and providing recognition as warranted.
Anticipate or identify problems and their causes; develop and analyze potential solutions or improvements using rational and logical processes or innovative and creative approaches when needed.
Identify own work and career interests, strengths and limitation; pursue education, training, feedback, or other opportunities for learning and development; manage, direct and monitor one’s own learning and development.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Working knowledge of dental practice management software (Dentrix, Eaglesoft, etc.)
Knowledge of dental terminology.
Understand and comply with policies and procedures associated with a ​dental practice.
Understand and comply with HIPAA.
Understand and comply with the HI-TECH Act of 2009.

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee may be regularly required to sit for long periods of time
Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
Specific vision abilities are required by this job, including close vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus (when required by the americans with disabilities act, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $18.00 per hour
Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Health savings account
Paid time off
Vision insurance

Medical Specialty:

Pediatrics

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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