The Benefits Specialist is responsible for assisting with the administration of all benefits and retirement programs, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and ACA reporting. Affordable Care Act oversight is a large portion of this individuals responsibilities and requires attention to detail and subject matter expertise.
If you’re looking for a schedule that fits your lifestyle, check out PAM Health - and ask us about our comprehensive benefits package!
Some things that our hospital can offer YOU as a full-time employee:
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Medical Benefits: EPO/HDHP/HSA options, including prescription coverage, Rx ’n Go, and Teladoc
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Comprehensive dental and vision benefits
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Employee Assistance Program, including counseling, legal, and financial service
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Flexible spending (FSA) and health savings (HSA) accounts
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Life and Disability insurance benefits
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Education/In-Service Opportunities including continuing education and tuition assistance
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Supplemental benefits: Accident, critical illness, cancer, pet, and identity theft protection insurance options
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Auto, Home, Cell Phone, and Gym Membership discount offerings
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Personal Travel Discounts
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Employee Bonus Referral Program
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401(k) plans and discretionary employer match
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Generous Paid Benefit Time
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Provides excellent customer service to employees. Requires excellent interpersonal skills necessary to develop and
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Administer various employee benefits programs,such as group health, flexible spending accounts, dental and vision,
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Serve as a resource to employees and Human Resource Directors (HRD) on FMLA, ADA and State Paid Leave programs
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Facilitate clear communication of employee leaves between the Leave Management Third Part Administrator (TPA) and local/regional HRD.
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Monitor, coordinate and track benefit enrollments, and manual benefit payments for employees on FMLA, LOA and/or workers’ compensation.
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Weekly review of benefit deductions in arrears
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Entry/tracking of individual employee benefit payment plans based on arrears report
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Update employee status based on start/end of leave
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Maintain employee benefits within system, UKG/Benefit Solver, to assure accuracy with payroll deductions and
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Support HRD and Payroll by routing Unemployment Compensation to proper facility for completion.
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Complete National Medical Support Notice (NMSN), scan and link to individual employee in Document Manager.
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Complete Wage and Benefit Verifications as needed
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Document/update benefit procedures as needed
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Assist HR and employees regarding benefit enrollment
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Audit weekly benefit enrollment changes
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Review transfers/rehires and adjust benefit deductions as needed
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Review reports and update employee deductions as needed during payroll process
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Employee outreach to update addresses for all returned benefit mail
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Provides back up for Benefits Analyst as needed
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Assist with special projects as needed
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Return calls/emails within one (1) business day
Education and Training: Minimum of an Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s preferred, in Business Administration or Human
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Experience: Six (6) monthsto one year related experience and/ortraining; equivalent combination of education and work experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities is a plus.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
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Work requires a high degree of accuracy.
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Flexibility to deal with changing priorities.
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Effective verbal and written communication skills.
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Ability to work independently and maintain accountability for work.
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Excellent organizational and time management skills.
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Ability to work with Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and computer applications.
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Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and explain benefits information to all levels of hospital employees
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The willingness and enthusiasm to perform other duties as assigned
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Intermediate skills using MS Outlook, Word and Excel, including functions such as VLOOKUP and pivot tables.
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Excellent customer service experience is required with a HIGH sense of confidentiality due to the sensitivity of the position