Help Wanted

Thank you for your interest, but this job opening has been filled as of 10/2021)

Lighthouse Nutrition and Wellness was founded in 2010 on the desire and business concept of helping clients marry their nutritional health and lifestyle and wellness (food and lifestyle as literal medicine) using evidence-based science, with spiritual growth and mindfulness, for the ultimate potential a person can reach with health, quality of life and longevity - a truly functional-integrative approach! 

Well, after almost 10 years of private practice with this lofty mission, this small family practice has grown to the point that we need a Super Team Player - Receptionist/Administrative Assistant (part-time/20 hours a week). This person will play a major role on the quality of how our company is run and presented. 

- JOB REQUIREMENTS -

Job title - Remote and In-Person Admin Assistant/Scheduler/Receptionist

Job location - Remote
Job type - Part-time
Minimum Experience - Mid level
Salary - $15 - $16 per hour, starting

Job Description

IMPORTANT - We are only seeking applicants who live in the Gig Harbor/Tacoma/Key Peninsula areas. We will not consider applicants applying from further away.

Please also provide a cover letter.

Are you a friendly, vibrant, creative, outgoing people-loving person who enjoys doing a great job every day and seeing motivated people turn their lives around with greatly improved health?

Does the sound of a job that makes YOU an integral, essential part of a quality team, with great respect to your health goals and work-life balance (for example, lunch breaks are encouraged!), that is also a fun environment to work in, sound great to you? Our goal is that you look forward to going to work every day.

If so, we need YOU! Lighthouse Nutrition and Wellness is looking for an extremely important team player who will grow with the company and likely receive more hours of work and compensation as goals are met.

Needing a responsible assistant who cares about seeing others get healthy for life, to manage details of a local nutrition practice.

Please have seen our website and gone through out site before applying.

Please see if you fit all these job requirements:

Must be fairly computer savvy and be able to learn and use a central electronic health record system to help dietitian manage practice scheduling and many other administrative tasks, and be able to follow HIPAA and take confidentiality very seriously
Hours in general needed: Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10:00 am- 6 pm, and on average- 1-2 Saturdays of the month from 9:30- 2 pm. (These hours may be altered, but this is the estimated schedule at this time). Most of these hours are for remote work; however an in-person hours roughly could be 4-8 hours per week (1 to 1.5 days) for now, possibly increasing to more -in-person hours.
Must have an insured, working vehicle in good condition.
A major task every 1-2 weeks is preparing weight management program materials for new clients. This would be done in-person with pandemic precautions in place (well-fitted mask, office sanitation, etc.)
Apply marketing skills on social media and elsewhere to promote our practice.
Receptionist duties - Answer the phone in a professional and friendly way during working hours, setting up new clients, rescheduling, etc.
Will keep the main office neat and clean, help others with custodial tasks.
Will keep the filing cabinets and supplies in order and let the administrator know what is needed.
Keep all forms replenished.
Plan grocery list shopping for cooking demonstrations.
Current Safe Serve certification required and be maintained ( help can be given to acquire this).
Go through the main office preparation procedures in the mornings.
Will be trained on standard HIPAA privacy policies.
Some basic healthy cooking skills to prepare set menu items. More advanced cooking skills a plus. Clean, chop and prepare foods for cooking demos,
Some general bookkeeping and some customer charging (however, heavier tasks will be assigned to a biller) and communication to our biller.
Calling clients on a regular basis when needed.
Some errands outside the office,
Some in-person marketing such as at networking events.
Other similar tasks

EDUCATION AND PRIOR EXPERIENCE

At least some college/ health background indicating an interest in the field, a major plus.
An interest in evidence-based health and wellness preferred.
At least 1 year experience with direct customer service, be comfortable with clients while sitting at a front desk, on the phone, for example - scheduling, rescheduling, describing services and more.
1+ years office or secretarial/receptionist or administrative work required
Must feel comfortable with, and preferably be proficient and creative with, social media.
Note: We are looking to hire a well-suited candidate in the next several weeks, and are anticipating the position to be filled by mid-October. 

If you feel you fit all these requirements, we're looking for you! Please contact LNW 

at 253-269-8888 or email Cathy@Lighthouse-Nutrition.com