Medical Assistant Ambulatory - Sunset Primary Care

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About the Role

Performs routine clerical and clinical tasks within the clinic, assisting physicians and other licensed providers to provide cost effective, quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Procures specimens through nasopharyngeal or oral swabs according to established procedures
• Vaccination activities
• Injection and aseptic technique
• Performing noninvasive procedures such as EKG
• Processing Point of Care testing
• Supporting clinical team and patients to achieve annual wellness care and transitional care documentation
• Communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds under stressful conditions
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties
• Efficient, effective, and safe use of equipment

Requirements

• Graduation from a recognized medical assistant program and one (1) year medical assisting experience in an ambulatory/clinical setting
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification accepted by the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Office Lab Assistant License within sixty (60) days of hire

Qualifications

• Knowledge of: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; operation of general office equipment; basic medical terminology; basic mathematics; medical equipment; and universal precautions
• Knowledge of: Referral processing, scheduling, data entry; knowledge of software applications; department and hospital safety practices; patient rights; infection control practices and policies; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures; age specific patient care practices

Skills

• Procuring specimens through nasopharyngeal or oral swabs according to established procedures
• Vaccination activities
• Injection and aseptic technique
• Performing noninvasive procedures such as EKG
• Processing Point of Care testing
• Supporting clinical team and patients to achieve annual wellness care and transitional care documentation
• Communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds under stressful conditions
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties
• Efficient, effective, and safe use of equipment

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Requires to test people for COVID-19
• Long lengths of standing
• Running the tests to swab patients and sending in their swabs for testing
• Wearing PPE while testing patients
• Strength and agility to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects