Senior Administrative Assistant

Senior Administrative Assistant

Are you looking for a rewarding career with top-notch benefits? We are looking for a qualified Managerlike you to join our Texas Health family.

Position Highlights

• Work location: Texas Health Denton
• Core Work hours: Monday - Friday; 8:00a-5:00p;

Since 1987, Texas Health Denton has served the Denton community and surrounding areas including Corinth, Lake Dallas, Argyle, Sanger, Aubrey, and communities throughout North Texas and southern Oklahoma. As a 255-bed, full-service hospital with more than 1,100 employees and 486 physicians on our medical staff, we're one of the largest employers in Denton County.


We offer advanced care in robotic and endovascular surgery, general surgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, spine and back services, emergency medicine, and bariatric surgery. Additional services include cancer treatment, critical care, neonatology, cardiac CT imaging, neurology, electrophysiology, stroke care, vascular care, women's and infants' services, interventional radiology, and wound care including hyperbaric treatment.


Our four-story Women and Infants Specialty Center features twelve labor and delivery beds, two C-section suites, six antepartum beds, and 23 postpartum beds. We are Denton's only provider of obstetrical and neonatal intensive care and the largest provider of obstetrical services in the City of Denton. The facility's ground floor includes a dedicated breast imaging center, outpatient physical therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, and our internal medicine residency program.


Texas Health Denton is a Joint Commission-accredited Advanced Primary Stroke Center, a certified Chest Pain Center, a Comprehensive Heart Attack Center, a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, and a Magnet-designated hospital.

The Sr. AA has the following duties and responsibilities:

Relieves management of daily operational problems by responding to all forms of inquiries by seeking the appropriate resources for resolution. May have receptionist responsibilities for management or the department. Develops relationships with internal personnel or departments, vendors or customers to follow-up with issues, obtain services, or finalize plans or agreements. Acts as the department or functional liaison for purchasing, payroll, facilities, equipment or I/S activities. Manages upkeep of manuals or education materials. If applicable, responsible for maintenance of department mailing lists, various logs e.g. mail, visitors, licensing logs.

Assists management with maintenance of Policies and Procedures, documentation revisions and recording of meeting minutes. Uses various database software to create routine and non-routine reports, presentation materials or documents. Uses advanced software programs e.g. spreadsheets, graphics to create or generate documents, web pages or articles, statistical reports or tables, graphics presentations, or educational materials requiring data collection, mathematical manipulations, or information research.

May perform data entry into databases e.g. time and labor. May be responsible for data integrity of unit databases, reports or documents.


Creates draft or final written correspondence for management review. Communicates instructions from management or other personnel to staff to expedite workflow through the department or project and perform all necessary follow-up to problems. May be responsible for entering information, articles, or reports into department or functional web sites. Uses various advanced software tools to create non-routine or ad hoc reports, documents or presentation materials for meetings, seminars, education or events.

Assists management with budget development, expense tracking. Responsible for direct input of data or creation for various reports to assist in the budgeting process. May be accountable for assisting management or project team to meet financial goals of the department or project and/or related accounts payable/receivables. Identifies problems and propose resolutions to management. May be accountable for limited funds disbursement for the department without management immediate approval.


Acts as functional or department liaison for project(s) and/or supervisor(s). May act as the dept trainer for specific skills or be responsible for simple data management, research or reporting.


Manages the department or manager's schedules and calendars. Scheduling duties includes making travel arrangements/accommodations for management or personnel, room scheduling, communications of itineraries etc. Resolves scheduling conflicts. Creates the necessary communications and sends to all personnel regarding meetings, classes, seminars etc. Monitors deadlines and may ensure deadlines are met and proper arrangements made for presentations and necessary presentation materials.

Responsible for monitoring department activities and/or as a project lead. May be part of a routine or special project committee or be responsible for summarizing meeting results for all participants. Takes initiative towards problem resolution by being pro-active and may propose possible resolutions and changes to project leadership or management.

Other duties as assigned.


Education
H.S. Diploma or Equivalent Required

Experience
5 Years in support of a department or supervisor or projects Required

Skills
Advanced office software applications skills and experienced user of office and desktop
publishing applications e.g. power point, Excel spreadsheet creation, and other presentation software to create presentations and some analysis, and collaboration platforms e.g. Microsoft Teams. Proven experience producing various forms of business correspondence - e.g. business letters, memos, written and statistical report documentation for production. Proven mathematical skills to collect, manipulate and analyze financial or statistical data. Good project management and organization skills. Excellent verbal, written communications and interpersonal skills. Ability to give instructions and clearly explain any type of problems or situations.

Why Texas Health?

At Texas Health Resources, our mission is "to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve".

As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000+ employees, we're one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding. Come be a part of our exceptional team as we improve the health of the people in our communities every day. You belong here.

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