Executive Assistant and Practice Operations Coordinator

Executive Assistant and Practice Operations Coordinator

St. Louis South Oral Surgery and Evolutions Med Spa are seeking an exceptionally organized, proactive, and resourceful Executive Assistant and Practice Operations Coordinator to support the owner and leadership team across two growing healthcare organizations. This is not a traditional administrative assistant position. The person selected for this role will serve as an operational extension of the practice owner, helping manage priorities, coordinate schedules, maintain accountability, organize credentialing and compliance activities, support projects, and ensure that important tasks move from discussion to completion.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a fast-paced healthcare environment, managing confidential information, communicating with physicians, employees, vendors, hospitals, insurance companies, and outside partners, and handling multiple competing priorities without losing attention to detail.

Position Type:
Full-Time. Work Environment:
Primarily On-Site, with limited remote work as approved.

Reports To:

Practice Owner and Executive Leadership.

• Manage and protect the practice owner's professional calendar; coordinate meetings, clinical schedules, leadership obligations, travel, deadlines, and outside commitments.
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, briefing documents, and follow-up summaries.
• Track decisions, assignments, deadlines, and unresolved items; anticipate scheduling conflicts and operational needs before they become problems;
  Organize emails, documents, communications, and requests requiring executive attention.
• Help prioritize incoming issues based on urgency, importance, and business impact.
• Draft professional correspondence, internal communications, reports, and presentation materials; and maintain strict confidentiality regarding clinical, financial, personnel, legal, and strategic matters.
• Assist leadership with the day-to-day coordination of operations across both organizations.
• Maintain operational task lists, project trackers, calendars, and accountability systems.
• Follow up with managers, employees, vendors, and external partners to ensure assigned work is completed.
• Identify incomplete processes, scheduling gaps, communication failures, and operational bottlenecks.
• Help develop, update, organize, and distribute standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate special projects involving staffing, scheduling, technology, marketing, compliance, facilities, and vendor relationships.
• Support the implementation of new systems, workflows, locations, services, and business initiatives.
• Collect and organize operational data for leadership review; and maintain organized digital files.
• Coordinate clinical, administrative, leadership, and personal business calendars as assigned.
• Assist with provider schedules, staff coverage, meetings, training, interviews, and special events.
• Monitor the calendar for conflicts, insufficient travel time, incomplete preparation, or missing information.
• Confirm appointments, meetings, deadlines, and required materials.
• Assist with scheduling changes during staffing shortages, emergencies, or unexpected operational disruptions.
• Coordinate and maintain provider credentialing, recredentialing, and enrollment activities.
• Track licenses, certifications, controlled-substance registrations, malpractice coverage, continuing education requirements, and expiration dates.
• Assist with hospital, ambulatory surgery center, insurance, and payer credentialing; maintain complete credentialing files for surgeons, dentists, medical providers, and other applicable clinicians.
• Communicate with credentialing organizations, hospitals, insurance companies, and government agencies.
• Complete applications, gather supporting documentation, and monitor submissions through approval.
• Maintain a credentialing calendar with renewal dates and advance reminders; escalate delays, missing documentation, and enrollment issues before they affect clinical operations or reimbursement.
• Coordinate credentialing activities associated with new providers, new locations, and new service lines.
• Assist with interview scheduling, onboarding, orientation, and employee documentation.
• Coordinate new-hire access, training schedules, system credentials, and required paperwork.
• Maintain confidential personnel files and administrative records; assist leadership with performance-review schedules, employee meetings, and documentation.
• Support internal communication between departments and locations.
• Help organize staff meetings, training sessions, team events, and leadership retreats; track employee licenses, certifications, required training, and renewal dates.
• Assist with recruiting coordination and communication with candidates.
• Maintain organized records related to healthcare compliance, employment, credentialing, contracts, insurance, and business operations.
• Assist with HIPAA, OSHA, licensing, policy, and training documentation.
• Monitor recurring compliance…