The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a part-time TH Staff Assistant 2. The successful candidate will: • Provide administrative support for the department. Liaise with physicians and support practice growth. • Support patient care clerical and administrative activities, while trying to optimize the patient experience across the care continuum. • Coordinate clerical work activities by determining appropriate work priorities and methods. • Receive inquiries and complaints and follow-up by coordinating with others as necessary to obtain the required information, which can include composing appropriate written responses. • Search files, gather facts, and compile a variety of data required for preparation of reports. • Act as liaison to expedite the flow of information. • Schedule and coordinate meetings and other work-related activities. • Receive calls, relay information to appropriate parties, and follow-up where necessary and appropriate. • Open, sort, and distribute mail and correspondence. • Coordinate activities to ensure timely submissions of documents or information that may be required of several staff personnel to complete a major project. • Type drafts and finish a variety of documents from written or verbal instruction, including correspondence, reports, and other materials that are sensitive, complex, or technical in nature. • Prepare reports where the information may be gathered from several sources or may be difficult to organize and compile. Search records and provide factual data from information on file. • Take dictation, which may include minutes of meetings, and transcribe notes into finished documents. • Compose a variety of letters, memoranda, instructions, and other documents on own initiative, from brief notes, and/or from verbal instruction. • For relief purposes, may be assigned clerical or secretarial activities of other personnel. • Perform other work as assigned. • Model the WE CARE values of the organization. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's Degree • Or, Associate's Degree with 2-years of relevant work experience in an administrative support capacity. • Strong interpersonal communication skills. • Excellent written and oral communication skills. • Adept at multi-tasking. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). • Familiarity with EHR and registration programs a plus. • Or, a satisfactory equivalent combination of experience, education and training to the above. Preferred Qualifications