**Join the team at Avera!** **Love Where You Work:** Work at Avera where current employees rate their satisfaction at 94%. Join a team where the career opportunities are endless. **Culture:** Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter. **You Belong at Avera** **:** Competitive pay, front-loaded PTO and options for free health insurance, various shifts to fit your lifestyle and opportunities for career growth. **Avera has an exciting opportunity to be the first impression of Avera as a Scheduling Specialist for patient scheduling.** **_Position Highlights:_** + **One week of PTO front-loaded and a generous ongoing paid-time off package.** + **Options for Free Health Insurance!** + **Career Growth** **opportunities!** **Job Summary** + The Scheduling Specialist performs diverse duties as they relate to the clinic to include, maintaining multiple physician, patient, surgery, procedure and office schedules. + Schedules patient provider appointments, radiology, as well as other infusions, injections, referrals and medical tests as ordered by the physician or advanced practice provider. + Assists with scheduling of telemedicine visits and outreach visits. + Coordinates all patients testing, infusions, and services closer to home if patient requests. + Ensures authorization is in place prior to tests being performed. + Responsible for scheduling, maintaining, and disseminating an accurate provider and infusion schedule, including acquisition, retention, and organization of documentation, and will provide clerical services for the clinic as indicated. + Performs reception duties for all medical personnel and visitors as needed including computer entry, phone answering, patient, staff, and physician communication. **Education and/or Experience** + High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. + One year of medical secretary school preferred. + 3 or more years of experience as a scheduler, biller, or in a medical office preferred. + Certified Medical Assistant preferred. + Medical Terminology is required. **Work Schedule** + Monday–Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm; 80 hours every 2 weeks + No weekends or holidays **Pay** The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. + $18.25 - $23.00 per hour What Makes Avera Special? (http://www.avera.org/careers/what-makes-avera-special/) The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-504-4444. Additional Notices: For TTY, dial 711 Avera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.