***Must have flexible work schedule including some evening and weekend shifts***

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following and other duties that are assigned such as dual job duties as a FOA-front office assistant or Toxicology Screening.

• Obtaining and recording patient medical histories, vitals, test results, and other information for medical records while maintaining strict confidentiality.
• Coordinating the daily administrative activities, including scheduling, greeting patients, patient check-in and check-out, recording vital signs and patient medical record maintenance.
• Preparing treatment rooms for clinical examinations and assisting practitioners with medical procedures and other patient care.
• Delivering compassionate support, attention, and assistance to patients and families.
• Collecting and preparing laboratory specimens
• Ensuring compliance with all health care regulations, including HIPAA and OSHA.
• If Certified, performing phlebotomy, preparing and administering medications, injections, vaccines for patients as directed by providers.
  • Previous Phlebotomy experience preferred

Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Position requires constant mental alertness, attention to detail, and high degree of accuracy required in completing all assignments. Strong problem-solving skills. Smart, driven, exceptional work ethic. Must be able to follow oral and written instructions and follow -through on all assignments. Excellent organizational skills. Highly detailed-oriented. Ability to work well in a group setting and independently.

Education and/or Experience:

Certified Medical Assistant Requirements:

• An active certification in medical assistance.
• Prior experience in administration.
• Prior experience in medical care.
• Compassion for patients.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work long shifts.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Medical Assistant Requirements:

• Must have certification from a medical assistant program or military medical corpsman program.
• If not certified, prepare to take and obtain certification within 6 months of starting the position
• Minimum of one year of experience in a medical setting.
• Have a high school diploma, bachelor's degree, or equivalent.
• A basic understanding of patient care, medical terminology, coding procedures, reference tools, and appropriate clinical pharmacology for medical assistant practice scope.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and customer service skills.
• Familiarity with electronic medical health care record systems.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret human service periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, mean, mode and median ability to draw and interpret graphs.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand, walk, sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.

The employee occasionally lifts/carries paperwork, files, office supplies, up to 20 lbs., pushes/pulls exerting up to 5-10 lbs. force, opening doors, file drawers, pushing files in drawers, and kneeling/crouching and/or ability to reach lower file drawers, file stretching to store of retrieve materials. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Frequent sitting at desk or computer while typing, completing paperwork, or meeting with patients.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Normal office environment where there is no physical discomfort cue to temperature, dust, noise, and the like. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.