Workplace Health Technician - Per Diem

Company Description

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision.

We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay to encourage continuing education. We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website:.

The Workplace Health Technician is an integral part of the healthcare team. They will be responsible for reception duties, medical records, referrals, pre-authorizations, scheduling, taking payments, nasal swab collections, urine collections and testing, urine drug screen collections and testing, DOT urine drug screen collections, breath alcohol testing, fingerprinting services through our contracted service and waived laboratory testing. This position is also required to work closely with the healthcare team, KVH personnel and external customers.

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Current computer experience (medium to expert level) in Microsoft products
• Be certified for DOT urine drug screen collections and breath alcohol testing or become certified for both within 60 days of hire.

• Be a US citizen and pass a background check to be able to perform fingerprinting services
• Previous cash-handling experience
• Bilingual; ALTA-certified in Spanish
• Previous medical office experience with exposure to some or all of the following; medical records, insurance verification and pre-authorization fundamentals, scheduling, and/or high-volume phone systems or customer service experience

Wage: Wage range starts at $20.89/hour and goes up to $31.67/hour. Actual wage will be determined based on previous years' of applicable experience. This position may also be eligible to receive an additional 15% premium, in lieu of benefits.

FTE: Per Diem

Schedule: Variable; on-call & as-needed

Benefits: This position is not benefits eligible