POSITION
DESCRIPTION
POSITION
TITLE: Homemaker Aide / Nurse Tech JOB CODE: 595
THIS
POSITION REPORTS TO: Coordinator,
Patient Care
SERVICE
AREA: Community Services
POSITION
PURPOSE: To obtain, manage, and store
information on homemaker clients.
Facilitate
the billing process on homemaker clients.
Provide positive image to customers.
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PRINCIPLE
ACCOUNTABILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES OF THE JOB:
* Maintain security and confidentiality of
data and information related to billing and
medical
record. Communicate appropriately with
billing clerk.
* Plan and implement measures to safeguard
data and information against loss,
destruction, and
tampering.
* Collect data in a timely, economical and
efficient manner. Manage appropriate
time
frames for
charting patient data collected on home visits and entering the
documentation
into the record. Assure timely data
entry.
* Communicate openly and pro-actively with
the staff to facilitate accurate billing
information.
* Post clinical notes to appropriate clinical
medical record daily.
* Provide accurate information to Meditech
and telephony software system to assure
departmental data
is accurate.
* Provide back up for all areas, both
clerical and field, as necessary. Answer
phones,
use fax, copier
and other equipment as needed.
* Act as mentor, teacher and field supervisor
for homemaker aides.
* Cooperate with surveyors and auditors.
* Participate in budget as requested.
* Problem solves in CQI process on each home
care program to make the organization
efficient and
effective.