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Care Team Assistant

UNC Health Care

Chapel Hill, NCFull-time$18.48–25.89/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$18.48–25.89/hr
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Care Team Assistant supports patient access by serving as an information center and first point of contact for patients, staff, and physicians. The role assists with registration, appointment scheduling, patient information entry, call routing, and communication between business units. It also manages referrals, verifies patient information, supports quality assurance, and precepts new coworkers as assigned.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer Service, nice to havePatient Registration, nice to haveAppointment Scheduling, nice to havePatient Information Verification, nice to haveReferral Management, nice to haveTelephone Call Handling, nice to haveEpic, nice to haveQuality Assurance, nice to havePrecepting, nice to have

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED, required2 Years Customer Service or Clerical Experience, required

Full job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:

The Care Access Specialist team serves as the information center and first point of contact for the patient community, staff, and physicians. This role assists in the patient registration process by scheduling outpatient or inpatient appointments as required, entering patient information, and transferring calls to appropriate personnel and coordinating communication between business units.

Responsibilities:

  1. Ensures excellent customer service by consistently demonstrating a caring, positive, professional, and helpful disposition with all customer relations. Meets call quality standards.

  2. Ensures and verifies key patient information (insurance verification, patient and guarantor demographics, etc.) is current and accurate to ensure patient safety, charging, coding, insurance processing, and billing accuracy.

  3. Schedules all new and follow-up patient appointments as required. Attempt to reschedule cancellations whenever possible. Communicates cancellations to provider as necessary.

  4. Manages incoming and outgoing referrals for multiple clinics/facilities. Follows referral management policies and procedures.

  5. Answers telephones, directs calls, takes and delivers messages in Epic.

  6. Enhances co-worker satisfaction by being self-motivated, a positive communicator, team player, and a willing and approachable resource to other co-workers. Demonstrates willingness to change to ensure continuous improvement.

  7. Actively participates in departmental QA by utilizing system work queues, making a personal effort to reduce individual errors, and making corrections. Utilizes system work queues as a daily part of the registration process to minimize errors.

  8. Effectively precepts new co-workers as assigned.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

  • High school diploma or GED required; higher-level degree may satisfy this requirement.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

Professional Experience Requirements:

  • Two (2) years of customer service and/or clerical experience required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Support Operations

Organization Unit: Adv Care at Home - Command Ctr

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $18.48 - $25.89 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

How this job compares

Set against the 906 open Patient Access jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$18.48–25.89/hr
  • US median$19–28/hr366 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $22.19/hr, is 5% below the US median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the middle half of Patient Access hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 20 open Patient Access jobs in North Carolina and 906 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in North Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Patient Access postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (641 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 629 of the 906 open Patient Access jobs (69%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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