Medical Assistant - Outpatient Float Pool, Full Time

Job Responsibilities

• Affords support to various healthcare disciplines in delivering both direct and indirect patient care activities.
• Supports initiatives aimed at ensuring safe patient care and fostering a secure environment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
• Performs assigned tasks under supervision of licensed professionals such as physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, registered nurses, or licensed practical nurses.

Qualifications

• No minimum experience required.
• One year of experience in pediatrics, including tasks like obtaining vitals, assisting clinical staff, phlebotomy, and specimen collection procedures preferred.
• Completion of a medical assistant training program from an accredited school, emergency medical technician certification, hospital-based training as a patient care technician, or equivalent education.
• Certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of employment.
• Completion of initial competencies within three months of hire.
• Reflects a professional image and exhibits excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Demonstrates competency in phlebotomy skills, ensuring proper and safe collection of laboratory specimens.
• Demonstrates competency during intake processes, accurately recording vital signs.
• Provides continuous visual monitoring of behavioral and at-risk patients, maintaining a safe environment through 1:1 uninterrupted monitoring and reporting potentially unsafe behaviors.
• Utilizes proficient organization and communication skills to prioritize, deliver, and document patient care effectively.
• Operates efficiently in a frequently stressful and fast-paced environment, maintaining high standards of customer service.
• Serves as a liaison between patients/families and department staff, handling greetings, message relaying, and offering assistance.
• Participates in administrative duties, including office opening/closing procedures, answering phones, maintaining waiting room/patient diversion materials, restocking complimentary beverages, and updating wait-time boards.
• Understands and complies with infection control, safety, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration procedures and regulations.
• Demonstrates competencies that incorporate age-specific guidelines, including neonatal (N), infant (I), early childhood (EC), late childhood (LC), adolescent (AD), adult (A), and all ages (ALL).

Pay

Full time 1.0 FTE.

Schedule

Monday-Friday, Shift Start Time: 7:30 AM, Shift End Time: 4:30 PM.