Part Time

1 Medical Center Drive

Clerical/Administrative Support

Week-end Shifts

* This position is located at Southern Maine Health Care Emergency Department

* Schedule: Saturday and Sunday, 9am-9pm

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* May be called upon to provide all customer service functions and must convey a friendly, caring, and professional attitude. Responsible for meeting, greeting, and assessing needs of customers, providing specific information and assistance, and ensuring that customers' needs are met.

* Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

* Education: A high school diploma is preferred.

* License/Certifications: N/A

* Experience: One to three years of experience in a health care setting is desirable but not required. This position requires the employee to have experience with or the capability to be trained to a high degree of skill in analytical and complex problem solving. The employee needs an understanding of basic customer service principles, to a level that would be acquired through at least two years of prior customer service experience and six months of on the job training.

* The employee must have the discipline to follow through thoroughly to ensure that customers' concerns and needs are addressed.

* Must have strong customer service skills and the sensitivity and intuition to detect stresses and problems, and to be resourceful and creative in resolving them.

* Must maintain a positive outlook, high energy level, and pleasant demeanor.

* Must be able to maintain poise and calm in dealing with a wide variety of people under stress, and deal effectively and safely with unhappy or difficult customers.

* Must understand and be able to maintain privacy and confidentiality, and be comfortable interacting with a diverse population.

* Ability to learn, remember, and explain the complex layout of Maine Medical Center and the locations of services.

* Ability to work independently (without direct supervision).

* Ability to understand, interpret, and explain institutional policies and procedures.

* Outstanding organizational and communication skills.

* Basic computer skills sufficient to use Microsoft Word and email and internet programs.