Medical Assistant – Clinic

About the role

Current opening: One Full-time position (36 hours per week)

Responsibilities

• Assists in the delivery of safe, efficient, quality patient care.
• Works in collaboration with all members of the healthcare team, as well as with the patients, families and visitors.
• Floated to other clinics / departments at the discretion of clinic director.
• Performs procedures under the supervision of a provider.
• Escort patients to exam rooms, interview patients, and measure and record vital signs.
• Reconcile patient medications within the patient’s medical record.
• Record patient histories, medications used and any pertinent information needed for the patients visit.
• Ensure all related reports, labs and necessary information is available for the provider prior to the patient’s appointment.
• Keep exam rooms stocked with adequate medical equipment and supplies.
• Answer/return patient phone calls in a timely manner. Including calling results or communication to patients.
• Absorb and perform exams as needed.
• Collect and prepare laboratory specimens.
• Remove sutures/staples when needed.
• Change dressings as needed.
• Perform venipuncture if needed.
• Completing EHR daily tasks assigned by provider by end of the day.
• Prepare and administer medications &/or vaccines as directed by a provider.
• Prepare and administer allergy injections as directed by a provider.
• Maintain quality control logs on necessary equipment and testing supplies.
• Maintain patient confidentiality.
• Monitor provider’s schedules.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Medical Assistant or Certified Nursing Assistant Certification
• High School diploma or GED
• Medical Terminology desired
• BLS for Healthcare Provider
• Computer competency

Knowledge, Education And Experience

Required:

• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Ability to read, write, and comprehend instructions, memos, and correspondence.
• Ability to present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands/Requirements

• Regularly lifting or move objects weighing 10 to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, walking, standing, and working with equipment.
• Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
• The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.