Veterinary Office Manager

Full Time
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Posted
Job description

Office Manager

The Office Manager is an administrative role with supervisory responsibilities. This individual is in charge of scheduling employees, resolving client complaints, and streamlining day-to-day workflow. Additionally, the Office Manager handles a variety of miscellaneous administrative tasks, such as collecting employee evaluations, ensuring that training materials are consistently updated, and reviewing transaction records for discrepancies.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Essential Job Functions:

  • Human Resources:
  • Provides oversight for Training Coordinator and Team Leader activities.
  • Provides supervision to ensure staff are following all operational protocols.
  • Collaborates with HR Director as needed to explore reasonable accommodations for employees.
  • Creates the schedule for all AAAH hourly employees, editing as needed.
  • Receives all time-off requests for hourly staff and replaces AAAH call-offs as needed so that day-to-day staffing needs are met.
  • Tracks tardies and call-offs for AAAH hourly employees.
  • Coordinates annual employee evaluations and 90-day introductory employee evaluations.
  • Collaborate with DVMs, Team Leaders, and Training Coordinator to develop, implement, and maintain training initiatives
  • Manage continuing education benefit (e.g., reviewing conference attendance requests, answering employee questions on policy, enrolling employees in ACT and Fear Free training, etc.
  • Operations:
  • Tracks licensing of DVMs and LVTs to ensure that they are meeting CE legal minimums and their licenses remain current.
  • Ensures DVM malpractice insurance remains current.
  • Conducts miscellaneous onboarding and offboarding tasks (e.g., assigning a locker cubby; creating business email address for new hire; adding employee contact information to the employee phone list).
  • Coordinates with hospital’s DiSC assessment provider to offer DiSC assessment to all new hires after 90 days of employment.
  • Organizes and leads weekly employee meetings (e.g., soliciting topics of interest to discuss; provide employees with meeting agenda at least 24 hours prior to meeting; arranging lunches for meetings; ensuring accurate, thorough notes are taken and disseminated post-meeting).
  • Maintains and balances the petty cash drawer.
  • Prepares and makes daily bank deposits; researches when deposit doesn’t balance with ImproMed.
  • Handles virtual queue administrative details (e.g., closing / reopening queue; annual update of virtual queue closure schedule).
  • Provides support to Team Leaders, as needed, in directing / delegating workflow activities (e.g., providing on-the-spot coaching, ensuring employees are consistently safe and productive, monitoring patient count / flow throughout workday).
  • Client Relations:
  • Conducts workplace investigations of client complaints (e.g., examining patient encounter records, interviewing of involved employees, creating thorough documentation for hospital’s records).
  • Facilitates resolution of client problems that doctors or other staff members cannot finalize (e.g., financial dilemmas, customer care, patient care, etc.).
  • Determines when special financial agreements with clients are appropriate and ensures that agreements made are properly followed and fulfilled.
  • Collects on delinquent account balances (i.e., Accounts Receivable).
  • Transaction Review:
  • Reconciles the credit card batch report to credit card totals within ImproMed (also performed for cash, checks, and Care Credit).
  • Applies applicable discounts to invoices.
  • Periodically investigates any invoices with “open” status. Makes a determination on whether to conclude the invoice and determines if errors/omissions exist.
  • Maintains the Daysheet Reconciliation Excel report. Networks with the hospital’s 3rdparty payable service in order to reconcile the bank statement with the Daysheet.
  • If Veterinary Inventory Specialist identifies errors on Reference Lab / Radiology reports, etc., is responsible for contacting the client and trying to collect any amount due.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Assist with issues or outages as needed.
  • Runs requested ImproMed reports and provides related information to Hospital Director and HR Director as needed.

Marginal Job Functions:

  • Human Resources:
  • Continuously assesses staffing needs of the hospital and keeps HR Director updated on current staffing needs by service and position.
  • Provides input on HR decisions (e.g., promotions, separations, recruitment, compensation, discipline).
  • Coordinates with Training Coordinator, Recognition Coordinator, and HR Director to ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new hires.
  • Organizes and leads annual DiSC training for new hires.
  • Assists Hospital Director and OSHA Coordinator with annual OSHA training
  • Operations:
  • Oversees usage of practice software to ensure that client records are entered consistently and correctly (e.g., screening for duplicate client / patient records).
  • Ensures employees who use the Day Boarding benefit are following the rules (e.g., cleaning up after their pets; all needed vaccinations prior to boarding).
  • Keeps “Personal Property Inventory” updated
  • Assists the hospital’s President and CPA with the annual review / update of the hospital’s asset / equipment list.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Assists the hospital’s President, HR Director, Hospital Director, DVMs and staff with special projects as needed.
  • Handles minor maintenance issues (e.g., plunging sink / toilet, shoveling / salting sidewalk after snow)
  • Maintains a facility which is visually appealing to clients and staff

Physical Demands and Environmental Factors:

  • Frequent exposure to animals which may bite, scratch, or otherwise cause physical injury to employee
  • May be exposed to anesthesia gases, zoonotic and chemical hazards, and radiation
  • In order to ensure the safe and effective performance of this job and the successful operation of the business, English fluency is necessary for this position.
  • Ability to move around the building to access filing cabinets, printers, etc.
  • May need to remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods (i.e., up to several hours) while using computer, phone, etc.
  • Must be able to efficiently operate computers, phones, and other office equipment
  • Position requires frequent communication with employees, clients, and business contacts (e.g., vendors, contractors). Must be able to exchange accurate information during these communications.
  • Must be able to perceive physical safety/OSHA hazards in the environment
  • Position may require 24-hour availability (in the case of emergency situations)

Qualifications:

  • At least three (3) years of prior supervisory experience required
  • Basic understanding of relevant employment laws required (e.g., OSHA, FMLA, FLSA)
  • Familiarity with ImproMed software preferred
  • Familiarity with Excel preferred
  • Prior work experience in a veterinary setting preferred

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $55,000.00 - $63,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Employee discount
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement plan

Schedule:

  • Day shift

Work Location: One location

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