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Medical Office Assistant
@ WorkSafeBC
Richmond, British Columbia
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Overview
WorkSafeBC is hiring a temporary full-time Medical Office Assistant for 6 months in its Visiting Specialist Clinic in Richmond, five days a week. The role provides reception, referral intake, appointment scheduling, medical correspondence and clinic support for injured workers. The posting states a salary of $28.69 per hour.
Responsibilities:
- Provide reception services and check in injured workers
- Intake referrals and update the referral system
- Schedule and confirm patient medical appointments
- Process medical correspondence, forms and reports
- Fax requisitions, imaging requests and medical reports
Requirements summary:
- Grade 12 or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Typing of at least 40 words per minute
- Knowledge of medical terminology and medical spelling
- Proficient use of Microsoft Word
- Outstanding customer service skills
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- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Administrative |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Hospital or clinic |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Background checks | criminal record |
| Education | High school (required) |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan, Tuition support |
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WorkSafeBC
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Richmond |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 27 |
Job description
Do you have experience of providing clerical support in a medical office or healthcare environment and have a good command of medical terminology? We have an opportunity for a temporary medical office assistant to work in the Visiting Specialist Clinic. You’ll perform a variety of administrative duties to support the Visiting Specialist Clinic, which offers a range of specialist services to ensure that injured workers are expeditiously assessed and receive the appropriate treatments or service as determined by a specialist.
This is a temporary opportunity for 6 months.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll build and empower collaborative partnerships that enable resources for workers, employers, health care providers, and other key stakeholders.
Working at WorkSafeBC
We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role is based in our Richmond office five days a week.
Like everything we do, our work model continues to evolve to support those we serve. We remain committed to a work model that strengthens our culture and helps us deliver our best work, while balancing flexibility and a positive employee experience.
Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.
What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.
Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.
Learn more: Discover who we are.
Our Benefits
Being part of WorkSafeBC means being part of a strong, committed team. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package may include vacation, optional leave arrangements, health care and dental benefits, and contributions toward your retirement pension. We also offer continuous learning opportunities, leadership development programs, and tuition reimbursement to make your career at WorkSafeBC rewarding. As a member of our team, you'll have access to services and benefits that can help you get the most out of work — and life
Learn more: Find out what we offer.
Salary: $28.69 hourly
Want to apply?
This is a temporary opportunity for 6 months.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll build and empower collaborative partnerships that enable resources for workers, employers, health care providers, and other key stakeholders.
Working at WorkSafeBC
We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role is based in our Richmond office five days a week.
Like everything we do, our work model continues to evolve to support those we serve. We remain committed to a work model that strengthens our culture and helps us deliver our best work, while balancing flexibility and a positive employee experience.
- Provide reception services by checking in injured worker (patients) upon arrival, answering or routing telephone calls and providing information on appointments, or claims inquiries
- Intake incoming referrals and update in referral system to keep detailed records of referred patients
- Schedule and confirm patient medical appointments
- Fill out and process a variety of electronic and paper-based correspondence, forms, reports, etc.; much of which involves medical terminology
- Fax requisitions or requests for medical imaging (e.g. x-rays), injections, and lab tests, and medical reports
- Order supplies and maintain the examination rooms with supplies, etc.
- Assist with physician billing.
- Consistently models the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.
- Provide outstanding customer service
- Multi-task in a dynamic environment
- Obtain and record information both orally and in writing
- Completion of grade 12
- Able to type a minimum of 40 words per minute
- Use knowledge of medical terminology and medical spelling
- Proficient use of Microsoft Word
Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
- Consent to a criminal record check
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.
What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.
Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.
Learn more: Discover who we are.
Our Benefits
Being part of WorkSafeBC means being part of a strong, committed team. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package may include vacation, optional leave arrangements, health care and dental benefits, and contributions toward your retirement pension. We also offer continuous learning opportunities, leadership development programs, and tuition reimbursement to make your career at WorkSafeBC rewarding. As a member of our team, you'll have access to services and benefits that can help you get the most out of work — and life
Learn more: Find out what we offer.
Salary: $28.69 hourly
Want to apply?
- Applications are welcomed immediately; however, must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
- Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.
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