Medical Records Assistant - SCI Smithfield

Do you seek a meaningful role where careful record work supports health care inside a correctional setting as a Medical Records Assistant with the Department of Corrections? This position allows you to build strong organizational skills while helping ensure accurate health information for inmates at the State Correctional Institution (SCI)  will play an important part in keeping medical records complete, clear, and accessible.

Join a team that values precision, teamwork, and public safety.

This position supports the creation, organization, and maintenance of medical records that help guide health care decisions within the institution. It ensures that important information is complete, accurate, and stored according to policies, regulations, and legal standards. As a Medical Records Assistant, you will perform the following duties:

• Record Management: Prepare, update, and review electronic, paper, and film records to ensure completeness and accuracy
• File Handling: File, issue, and transport records in line with confidentiality rules, regulations, and legal requirements
• Archiving Work: Archive inactive records and ensure proper transfer and storage of documents, films, and x-rays
• Information Tracking: Maintain logs that monitor release of information and requests from staff or other facilities
• Statistical Reporting: Prepare and verify periodic health-related reports for management review

• Full-time employment, 37.5 hours per week
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
• Telework:
  You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary:
  In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

• One year of clerical experience maintaining or reviewing medical records, transcribing dictated or recorded medical information, or conducting medical abstracting and coding;
  or
• Graduation from an accredited medical secretarial, medical records, medical transcription, medical assisting, medical coding, or health information management program;
  or
• An equivalent combination of experience and training.

• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
• Successful completion of basic training in Elizabethtown, PA is required.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• You must pass a background investigation and meet Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) compliance requirements.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and click on Veterans.

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.

The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law.

All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.

• Completing the application, including all supplemental questions, serves as your exam for this position. No additional exam is required at a test center (also referred to as a written exam).
• Your score is based on the detailed information you provide on your application and in response to the supplemental questions.
• Your score is valid for this specific posting only.
• You must provide complete and accurate information or:
  • your score may be lower than deserved.
  • you may be disqualified.
• You may only apply/test once for this posting.
• Your results will be provided via email.