Certified Medical Assistant - Charleston
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Job Title: Medical Assistant Direct Patient Care Position Class: Non-Exempt Supervision Received: Assigned Medical Provider and Clinical Lead Nurse Supervision Exercised: None Salary Range- Based Upon Experience General Summary: ... (this is about the role). Then Core Duties and Responsibilities list. Then Qualifications Skills and Abilities: ... then Education and Experience: ... then Certificates, License, Registration: ... then Physical Demands: ... then Environmental/Working Conditions: ... Also mention At CCHS, we are deeply committed... (community engagement). Also mention The employee is actively encouraged... (mentor students). Also mention occasional travel.
We need sections: About the role (General Summary). Responsibilities (Core Duties and Responsibilities). Requirements (maybe Education and Experience + Certificates). Skills (Qualifications Skills and Abilities). Benefits? Not mentioned. Pay? Salary Range- Based Upon Experience (that's pay info but vague "Based Upon Experience" - we should not include Pay section if it's just "Based Upon Experience" with no specifics? The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It states "Salary Range- Based Upon Experience". That's a statement but not a specific range. It's vague; but it's still stating salary range based upon experience. Is that enough? The rule says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "Based Upon Experience" is similar to "commensurate with experience". That's filler. So we should NOT include Pay section.
Schedule: Not mentioned. Benefits: Not mentioned. So we omit those sections.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Possibly also "Physical Demands" and "Working Conditions" but those are not in the allowed headings list. The allowed headings are only those listed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we cannot add other headings. So we must fit content into those sections. Physical demands and working conditions could go under Requirements? Or maybe under Qualifications? But they are not exactly qualifications. Could be part of Requirements (like physical demands). We'll include them under Requirements perhaps as a bullet list.
Similarly, certificates/license could be under Requirements.
Education and Experience also under Requirements.
Thus we need to decide distribution.
We have:
- About the role: General Summary paragraph.
- Responsibilities: Core Duties and Responsibilities list (bullets). Also occasional travel, mentoring, community engagement maybe also responsibilities.
- Requirements: Education and Experience, Certificates, License, Registration, Physical Demands, Environmental/Working Conditions.
- Qualifications: maybe not needed if we already have Skills. But we have Qualifications Skills and Abilities section. That could be Skills heading. The posting has "Qualifications Skills and Abilities:" which is a list of skills. So we can put that under Skills heading.
- Requirements heading: include Education and Experience, Certificates, Physical Demands, Environmental/Working Conditions.
We must not repeat job title.
We must use for each section heading.
We must use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
We must use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. There's none evident.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We already omitted Pay.
We must not create sections with filler.
Now craft HTML.
First, About the role: Use the General Summary paragraph.
General Summary: "Member of CCHS Care Team responsible for assisting an assigned medical provider during clinical sessions, executing CCHS standing orders and medical provider orders, providing direct patient care and testing, and communicating with patients and caregivers by telephone and in writing. The Medical Assistant communicates with patient regarding preventive care recommendations, chronic care self management and healthy lifestyle choices utilizing advanced training in Motivational Interviewing and the Stanford Model for Self Management. The Medical Assistant huddles with the medical provider at the beginning of the day, planning chronic care visits or preventive care services. Participates actively in weekly Extended Team Huddles to discuss patients with complex needs and monthly Site Staff Meetings. Occasional Travel and being assigned to other sites may be required if the need should arise. At CCHS, we are deeply committed to fostering a culture of community engagement and support, a principle that guides not only our patient care but also our team dynamics. Our dedication to community focus is reflected in our collaborative and educational initiatives, which are designed to enrich both the professional growth of our employees and the learning experiences of future healthcare professionals. The employee is actively encouraged and expected to embrace opportunities to mentor and guide students from a diverse array of schools and programs in the forms of job shadowing and on-site instructional learning as part of a structured educational program."
We need to keep that as prose; maybe split into paragraphs but we can keep as one
.
Now Responsibilities: list of duties.
We need to extract the list from "Core Duties and Responsibilities, which include the following and other duties as assigned:" then bullet points.
Let's list them:
- Meet with provider to plan the day in brief huddle, planning chronic care visits such as diabetes or asthma care focused visits or preventive care visits such as Well Child or Well Woman exams.
- Communicates with front office regarding work flow, advance planning for patient surveys, etc.
- Participates in weekly Extended Huddle meetings with full Care Team to discuss patients with complex needs or barriers to care.
- Greet scheduled patients at beginning of all medical visits to obtain vital signs, update and document the problem list, allergies, obtain copies of any recent hospitalizations, surgeries or interventions and document in medical record, including any required ICD-10 coding in the electronic health record.
- MA performs a medication list reconcilement with documentation of all medications from all providers, and reinforces value of a complete medical home record with CCHS primary care providers.
- Prepare patient as appropriate for the examination and medical visit.
- Discuss preventive and chronic care registry measures with patients, executes standing orders for preventive care and chronic care interventions (e.g. performs foot exam, obtains HbA1c and Lipids, writes orders for mammogram for provider to sign).
- Discuss impact and value of patients engagement in self management and lifestyle choices.
- Discuss self management goals with patients with chronic disease, using Stanford model Self Management training and Motivational Interviewing training.
- Document patients goal, confidence level and progress since goal set.
- Provides CCHS-adopted patient education and hand-outs such as 5-2-1-0 for all children and parents, Rate Your Plate for adults with abnormal BMI, Live Well, Breathe Well for patients with asthma, following standing orders for Diabetes, Obesity and Asthma.
- Assist medical provider during examination, treatment and minor surgeries.
- Administer immunizations and injections per orders and update in electronic health record.
- Coordinate laboratory specimen collection, perform in-house testing.
- Perform ECGs, spirometry or audiometry testing.
- Provide special instructions to patient on follow up care ordered by the medical providers (e.g. proper wound care or management of symptoms) instructions regarding referrals to specialists and testing facilities, or instructions for follow up visits.
- Review tasks in the electronic health record from medical providers, execute provider orders and communicate with patients by telephone or in writing.
- Review telephone tasks in electronic health record from Front Office Patient Service Representatives (PSRs), communicate with medical providers regarding patient needs, and communicate with patients regarding provider orders.
- Stock assigned exam rooms and maintain in clean, orderly fashion.
- Re-stock procedure room, laboratory and nursing station as necessary.
- Perform all assigned responsibilities for program requirements such as Family Planning, Breast and Cervical Cancer Screen Program, Health Check (well-child exam), etc.
Also occasional travel and being assigned to other sites may be required if the need should arise (already in General Summary but could be included as responsibility). Also mentoring students (community engagement) maybe also responsibility.
We'll include those as separate bullet points if not already covered.
Now Requirements: include Education and Experience, Certificates, License, Registration, Physical Demands, Environmental/Working Conditions.
Education and Experience: "High School Graduate or GED Graduate of Recognized Medical Assistant Program required One Year Experience preferred"
Certificates, License, Registration: "National Certification preferred"
Physical Demands: "Varied activities including standing, walking, reaching, bending and lifting. Requires full range of body motion, including assisting in the lifting of patients manually. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Eye-hand coordination and finger dexterity. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Working with ill patients may be stressful."
Environmental/Working Conditions: "Primary Care Health Center with combination of office and exam room settings. Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids, sharp instruments and needles, cleaning chemicals, medicinal preparations. May require working extended shifts and hours as necessary."
We'll make each as bullet list under Requirements.
Now Skills: from Qualifications Skills and Abilities list.
List:
- Basic Medical Assisting skills including performing vital signs, assisting providers during examinations and procedures, administering injections, sterile technique and basic wound care
- Assisting medical providers during procedures and minor surgeries
- Administering nebulizer treatments and walking O2 saturation testing
- Performing phlebotomy and basic CLIA-waived laboratory testing
- Performing ECGs, spirometry testing and audiometry
- Interpreting medical provider orders and instructions
- Basic knowledge of chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma and depression
- Basic keyboarding and PC skills, Windows skills including WORD
- Use of printers, copiers and fax equipment
- Navigation of a Windows based electronic health record and/or practice management system
- Proper medical documentation skills including knowledge of ICD coding
- Basic Cardiac Life Support skills
- Good communication/teaching skills with patients and care-givers, including obtaining appropriate clinical information and symptoms and giving patients instructions and education as directed by the medical provider
- Good communication skills, confidence as member of CCHS Care Team, and active participation in Care Team Meetings and Trainings
- Good critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Stanford model Self Management Skills (training provided by CCHS)
- Motivational Interview Skills (training provided by CCHS)
- Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations
- Ability to learn advanced training objectives such as CCHS adopted preventive care and chronic care guidelines
We'll put each as bullet.
Now ensure we don't repeat any content inadvertently.
We must not include headings with empty content.
Now produce HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
then ...
Then Responsibilities
then - ...
Then Requirements
then - ...
Then Skills
then - ...
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: The mention of "Occasional Travel and being assigned to other sites may be required if the need should arise." Already in General Summary but we could also add as responsibility bullet. It's already in General Summary; we can keep it there; not required to duplicate.
Mention of community engagement and mentoring is in General Summary; we can keep there.
Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "EEO". Not present.
Now produce final HTML.
Be careful to escape
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
We must use
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. There's none evident. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We already omitted Pay. We must not create sections with filler. Now craft HTML. First, About the role: Use the General Summary paragraph. General Summary: "Member of CCHS Care Team responsible for assisting an assigned medical provider during clinical sessions, executing CCHS standing orders and medical provider orders, providing direct patient care and testing, and communicating with patients and caregivers by telephone and in writing. The Medical Assistant communicates with patient regarding preventive care recommendations, chronic care self management and healthy lifestyle choices utilizing advanced training in Motivational Interviewing and the Stanford Model for Self Management. The Medical Assistant huddles with the medical provider at the beginning of the day, planning chronic care visits or preventive care services. Participates actively in weekly Extended Team Huddles to discuss patients with complex needs and monthly Site Staff Meetings. Occasional Travel and being assigned to other sites may be required if the need should arise. At CCHS, we are deeply committed to fostering a culture of community engagement and support, a principle that guides not only our patient care but also our team dynamics. Our dedication to community focus is reflected in our collaborative and educational initiatives, which are designed to enrich both the professional growth of our employees and the learning experiences of future healthcare professionals. The employee is actively encouraged and expected to embrace opportunities to mentor and guide students from a diverse array of schools and programs in the forms of job shadowing and on-site instructional learning as part of a structured educational program." We need to keep that as prose; maybe split into paragraphs but we can keep as one
. Now Responsibilities: list of duties. We need to extract the list from "Core Duties and Responsibilities, which include the following and other duties as assigned:" then bullet points. Let's list them: - Meet with provider to plan the day in brief huddle, planning chronic care visits such as diabetes or asthma care focused visits or preventive care visits such as Well Child or Well Woman exams. - Communicates with front office regarding work flow, advance planning for patient surveys, etc. - Participates in weekly Extended Huddle meetings with full Care Team to discuss patients with complex needs or barriers to care. - Greet scheduled patients at beginning of all medical visits to obtain vital signs, update and document the problem list, allergies, obtain copies of any recent hospitalizations, surgeries or interventions and document in medical record, including any required ICD-10 coding in the electronic health record. - MA performs a medication list reconcilement with documentation of all medications from all providers, and reinforces value of a complete medical home record with CCHS primary care providers. - Prepare patient as appropriate for the examination and medical visit. - Discuss preventive and chronic care registry measures with patients, executes standing orders for preventive care and chronic care interventions (e.g. performs foot exam, obtains HbA1c and Lipids, writes orders for mammogram for provider to sign). - Discuss impact and value of patients engagement in self management and lifestyle choices. - Discuss self management goals with patients with chronic disease, using Stanford model Self Management training and Motivational Interviewing training. - Document patients goal, confidence level and progress since goal set. - Provides CCHS-adopted patient education and hand-outs such as 5-2-1-0 for all children and parents, Rate Your Plate for adults with abnormal BMI, Live Well, Breathe Well for patients with asthma, following standing orders for Diabetes, Obesity and Asthma. - Assist medical provider during examination, treatment and minor surgeries. - Administer immunizations and injections per orders and update in electronic health record. - Coordinate laboratory specimen collection, perform in-house testing. - Perform ECGs, spirometry or audiometry testing. - Provide special instructions to patient on follow up care ordered by the medical providers (e.g. proper wound care or management of symptoms) instructions regarding referrals to specialists and testing facilities, or instructions for follow up visits. - Review tasks in the electronic health record from medical providers, execute provider orders and communicate with patients by telephone or in writing. - Review telephone tasks in electronic health record from Front Office Patient Service Representatives (PSRs), communicate with medical providers regarding patient needs, and communicate with patients regarding provider orders. - Stock assigned exam rooms and maintain in clean, orderly fashion. - Re-stock procedure room, laboratory and nursing station as necessary. - Perform all assigned responsibilities for program requirements such as Family Planning, Breast and Cervical Cancer Screen Program, Health Check (well-child exam), etc. Also occasional travel and being assigned to other sites may be required if the need should arise (already in General Summary but could be included as responsibility). Also mentoring students (community engagement) maybe also responsibility. We'll include those as separate bullet points if not already covered. Now Requirements: include Education and Experience, Certificates, License, Registration, Physical Demands, Environmental/Working Conditions. Education and Experience: "High School Graduate or GED Graduate of Recognized Medical Assistant Program required One Year Experience preferred" Certificates, License, Registration: "National Certification preferred" Physical Demands: "Varied activities including standing, walking, reaching, bending and lifting. Requires full range of body motion, including assisting in the lifting of patients manually. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, and occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Eye-hand coordination and finger dexterity. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Working with ill patients may be stressful." Environmental/Working Conditions: "Primary Care Health Center with combination of office and exam room settings. Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids, sharp instruments and needles, cleaning chemicals, medicinal preparations. May require working extended shifts and hours as necessary." We'll make each as bullet list under Requirements. Now Skills: from Qualifications Skills and Abilities list. List: - Basic Medical Assisting skills including performing vital signs, assisting providers during examinations and procedures, administering injections, sterile technique and basic wound care - Assisting medical providers during procedures and minor surgeries - Administering nebulizer treatments and walking O2 saturation testing - Performing phlebotomy and basic CLIA-waived laboratory testing - Performing ECGs, spirometry testing and audiometry - Interpreting medical provider orders and instructions - Basic knowledge of chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma and depression - Basic keyboarding and PC skills, Windows skills including WORD - Use of printers, copiers and fax equipment - Navigation of a Windows based electronic health record and/or practice management system - Proper medical documentation skills including knowledge of ICD coding - Basic Cardiac Life Support skills - Good communication/teaching skills with patients and care-givers, including obtaining appropriate clinical information and symptoms and giving patients instructions and education as directed by the medical provider - Good communication skills, confidence as member of CCHS Care Team, and active participation in Care Team Meetings and Trainings - Good critical thinking and problem solving skills - Stanford model Self Management Skills (training provided by CCHS) - Motivational Interview Skills (training provided by CCHS) - Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations - Ability to learn advanced training objectives such as CCHS adopted preventive care and chronic care guidelines We'll put each as bullet. Now ensure we don't repeat any content inadvertently. We must not include headings with empty content. Now produce HTML. We'll start with
About the role
then...
ThenResponsibilities
then- ...
Requirements
then- ...
Skills
then- ...