Respite Administrative Assistant

Who We Are:

Since 1985, BHCHP’s mission has been to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in greater Boston. Over 12,000 homeless individuals are cared for by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program each year. We are committed to ensuring that every one of these individuals has access to comprehensive health care, from preventative dental care to cancer treatment.

Our clinicians, case managers, and behavioral health professionals work in more than 60 locations to serve some of our community’s most vulnerable—and most resilient—citizens.

From our earliest days as a program, we have always sought to do work that is transformational: recognizing our shared humanity; centering dignity, compassion, mutual respect and supporting the right of every individual to access the highest levels of health care and every staff member to reach their fullest potential. We continue to be committed to building bridges and breaking down barriers, including systemic racism which harms us all.

We provide community-based health care services that are compassionate, dignified, and culturally appropriate, incorporating social determinants of health, with the goal of breaking down the physical and systemic barriers that our patients face.

We are looking for an experienced Administrative Assistant to join our Respite Medical Team. As the Administrative Assistant, you will provide direct administrative and operational support to the Respite Medical Director, Respite Associate Medical Director, and the Respite Executive Director. Some key functions of the role will include providing first‑hand support to each director with meeting and/or conference coordination, managing operational calendars and provider clinical schedules, organizing special projects, and assisting with the organization of onboarding and training for clinical new hires.

Other responsibilities may include but are not limited to delegating administrative tasks essential to management of clinical staffing, maintaining medical respite administrative files, policies and administrative procedures, attending and setting agendas in addition to preparing minutes for regular medical respite committee meetings, and supporting the directors in their daily work and organizational responsibilities.

Full time: 40 hours per week;
Monday – Friday, 8am-4:30pm
Union: Yes
Union Name: SEIU
Patient Facing: No

• Organizes medical respite program data for reports and presentations; implements and maintains databases requested by senior medical respite administrators; designs forms and other operational and promotional materials used by all departments at the medical respite program.
• Centralizes and organizes medical respite, and as needed, program wide committees such as (but not limited to) Emergency Preparedness and Safety Taskforce (EPSTF), Pharmacy and Therapeutics and Clinical Care Committees; maintains and updates public folders with appropriate documents, including meeting minutes; acts as the support staff to EPSTF and manages the MSDS binders in the building for OSHA compliance; assists in documentation/correspondence preparation including Department of Public Health Reports.
• Collaborates with managers as needed to ensure the smooth planning of operations and events; supports event planning at the McInnis House, planning, scheduling, and ensuring that all managers collaborate and are informed and that events are organized.
• Organizes and maintains filing systems for the Medical Director, Associate Medical Director and the Executive Director of Medical Respite including but not limited to, confidential administrative files and policies and procedures as needed; arranges meetings and maintains calendars for conference rooms, Medical Director and Executive Director of Respite, and other senior respite managers as assigned.
• Coordinates schedules for Medical Respite clinicians and ensures appropriate coverage at all times; assists the Medical Director and Associate Medical Director in the accuracy of provider timesheets on ADP and…