Team Assistant Job at Home and Community Care Support Services

Home and Community Care Support Services Mississauga, ON

Job Description:
Are you highly organized, detail-oriented and able to work accurately in a busy environment with frequent interruptions? Are you looking to make a difference in your community? Take a look at this exciting opportunity.

As a valued member of our Home and Community Care team, you will provide support for the assigned Care Coordinator team in their daily activities to ensure that patients receive prompt, effective customer service.

By applying your healthcare administrative support experience, you will have the opportunity to impact lives in your community, enjoy a balanced lifestyle, and be part of a great team that makes care happen.

We are currently recruiting for the following Team Assistant roles:
  • permanent full-time at Halton Healthcare - Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital; the schedule will be Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm with a rotation to one week of 10:00 am to 6:00 pm every 6 weeks; this is an office based role and all hours are worked onsite at the hospital
  • permanent full-time on the Access Care Team; the schedule will include weekend and afternoon shifts (1:00 pm to 9:00 pm); during the 6-month probation period, the role will be working on-site at our Mississauga office, after probation the role is hybrid, rotating between working from the office and working from home


What will you do?

  • Provide administrative support services to Care Coordinators
  • Process new referrals, and orders for services, supplies and equipment
  • Process and assist in managing confidential patient records
  • Enter, update and maintain a high volume of patient data in the electronic database
  • Answer a high volume of telephone inquiries from patients, families and service providers, and refer callers as appropriate


What must you have?

  • A Grade 12 diploma (minimum)
  • 2+ years’ related office experience
  • Accurate keyboarding/data-entry skills
  • Proficiency with database software, MS Word and Excel
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Advanced multi-tasking skills, with the ability to meet performance and service goals
  • Very good interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team and interact tactfully and sensitively with patients from wide-ranging cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills


What would give you the edge?

  • A college diploma in the health or social services field, or business/office administration
  • Familiarity with medical terminology, and office administrative procedures/concepts
  • Knowledge of HCCSS services
  • Ability to speak French or another second language

Who we are
Home and Community Care Support Services play a key role in Ontario’s health care system. Working in partnership with patients, families, providers and community organizations, we ensure people have access to the health care they need — at home and in the community.

This is a momentous time for health care in Ontario as we move towards a better connected system that creates more seamless care for patients. Home and Community Care Support Services Mississuaga Halton is pivotal in this process. Entrusted with planning, funding, integrating and delivering health care across our region, we are finding better ways to provide high-quality services to the 1.2 million people that call our region home.

All applications will be reviewed; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Home and Community Care Support Services has implemented a mandatory vaccination policy across the province that requires all staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Applicants being considered for employment will be required to provide proof of vaccination documentation confidentially to Human Resources upon hire. Any medical or human rights exemption requests will be reviewed and validated prior to an offer of employment.

Home and Community Care Support Services Mississauga Halton is a respectful, caring and inclusive workplace, committed to Employment Equity. We welcome diversity in the workplace, and encourage applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, 2SLGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities. We will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. Applicants need to make their requirements known when contacted.



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