Medical Assistant

About the role

The Medical Assistant at Bullhook Community Health Center (BCHC) is responsible for both administrative and clinical duties under the direction of medical providers. This position involves clerical work, scheduling appointments, sending/receiving referrals, maintaining medical records, billing and coding information for insurance purposes, taking/recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, entering patient data and information into the electronic medical record system, and analyzing performance measure data to ensure compliance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Responsible for care planning, entering, collecting, analyzing and reporting data.
• Rooming patients, recording patients’ medical information, vital signs, telephone calls, and medication refills.
• Completing pre-visit planning prior to patient’s appointments and updating medical providers to the needs of each patient.
• Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations.
• Aid clinical staff in performing medical procedures.
• Collect biological specimens from patients, process, enter results.
• Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes.
• Draw blood from veins, by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.
• Draw blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods.
• Dispose of biomedical waste and/or contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Medical Assistant license or comparable work-related skills, knowledge and experience are preferred.
• Valid driver’s license by the State of Montana.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of medications, immunizations, communicable diseases, CPR, and other related nursing procedures.
• Active listening, good communication skills and social perceptiveness.
• Ability to work independently and as a team player.
• Ability to meet the standards and metrics of the patient centered medical home model and quality improvement measures.

Skills

• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing personable customer service.

Physical And Environmental Demands

• Work is performed in an office and clinic setting; stands, walks with intermittent sitting; reaches for and uses writing instruments and keyboard; reads reports and other written materials; extensive use of telephone and oral communication with the public and coworkers; stoops; bends; kneels; reaches for; picks up; and pushes or pulls; ability to lift up to 30 pounds.
• Hazardous risks may include exposure to infected body fluids, sharp instruments, and chemicals, requires adherence to universal safety precautions.