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NaphCare is hiring a Mental Health Clerk, to join our team of medical professionals in the Bullock Correctional Facility in Union Springs, AL.
As a Correctional Mental Clerk, you will work alongside correctional officers and other medical professionals to provide essential administrative and clerical support within the facility's mental health department. This is a unique position where you can make a difference to this diverse population of patients with complex mental health and medical needs.
Responsibilities:
The Mental Health Clerk is responsible for providing administrative and clerical support to the mental health department. Duties and responsibilities may include and are not limited to:
- Maintaining and organizing patient health records, including initiating, updating, and managing files, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality
- Coordinating and scheduling mental health appointments, including both on-site and off-site appointments, and managing appointment books or calendars
- Answering phones, taking messages, and directing calls to appropriate staff, and communicating with various departments, agencies, and individuals as needed
- Assisting with the coordination of care for patients, including referrals for specialty services, inpatient care, and discharge planning
- Maintaining patient databases, generating reports, and entering data into relevant systems, such as electronic health records or spreadsheets
- Performing general clerical tasks, such as typing correspondence, filing documents, and ordering office supplies
- Adhering to all security protocols and procedures within the correctional facility, including obtaining security clearances.
Experience / Requirements / Qualifications
- Must have a high school diploma or GED certificate.
- Experience in a medical office or healthcare setting, particularly in medical records or with medical terminology, is preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite
- Must possess strong written communication and verbal skills, adaptable to environments where conditions may not be pristine, and manage and maintain in stressful situations
- Must have the ability to maintain confidentiality of all proprietary and/or confidential information and integrity, professionalism and ability to adhere to a Code of Conduct and comply with all facility(s) correctional healthcare policies, procedures, and legal requirements
- Must pass the facility’s criminal background check and drug screening
Physical Capabilities:
Must have the ability to stand for long periods, lift and move patients (up to 50 pounds), bend, squat, reach, push, pull, walk significant distances, and perform physically demanding tasks like CPR, all while maintaining good balance and endurance throughout a shift.
Why Join NaphCare?
NaphCare is one of the largest providers of healthcare services to correctional facilities throughout the US, and we are growing. If you have never considered a career in correctional healthcare, now may be the time. In addition to competitive salaries and generous employee benefits, we strongly support career advancement within the company.
NaphCare Benefits for Full-Time Employees Include:
- Health, dental & vision insurance that starts day one!
- Prescriptions free of charge through our health plan, beginning day one
- Lowest Cost Benefits!
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services
- 401K and Roth with company contribution that starts day one!
- Tuition Assistance
- Referral bonuses
- Term life insurance at no cost to the employee
- Generous paid time off & paid holidays
- Free continuing education and CMEs
If you would like to speak with me to learn more about this position and NaphCare, apply directly to the position to initiate the application process, and I’ll be in touch.
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NaphCare is dedicated to implementing cost-effective, quality services according to our clients' needs.
Because every facility is unique, we tailor our services to meet each client's respective needs. We deliver solutions based on your requests rather than telling you how to run your facility. NaphCare evaluates, evolves, and adapts our programs according to not only client needs, but also the ever-changing field of correctional healthcare.
When you choose NaphCare, you choose a proactive, preventive healthcare provider. We focus on a “Day One” mentality, providing care up front and without delay. Our clients experience greater efficiency, a reduction in unnecessary costs, and transfer their legal liability, all without giving up their independence. NaphCare is leading the way with an all-in-one approach to correctional healthcare that provides services unique to your facility.
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With NaphCare, people come first. We are proud of our company culture and ability to connect with our clients on a personal level, and it is NaphCare's mission to continue our history of personalized service. Care is not reserved simply for the patients entrusted to us, but also for our client partners. We care for our clients by providing efficient services to reduce their costs, communicating regularly about our services, listening to the client, providing accountability through continuous quality studies and reporting, and working with integrity at all times.
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Also, as an independent healthcare partner, we are free from complex partnerships and distant investors that limit our competitors' responsiveness. NaphCare has not undergone any corporate reorganization or restructuring since the company was founded in 1989, and has no plans to do so in the future. This stability, along with planned and structured growth, ensures that our client partners receive personal attention from our administrative and medical support team at our headquarters.
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NaphCare is a financially stable and fiscally responsible company. Throughout our history, we have maintained steady, measured growth, more stable than sweeping corporate changes. Our clients do not have to worry about drastic shifts in our company and how such changes will affect their services.
One of the best indicators of a company's financial stability is its ability to secure insurance and a bonding line. NaphCare is proud of our ability to provide performance bonds, rather than letters of credit. Due to our financial strength, NaphCare has exceptional insurance programs that indemnify our clients against litigation regarding healthcare services.