Patient Aide - Full or Part-Time

Description

Medical Associates is hiring a full or part-time Patient Aide to join our West Campus team!

Schedule: This position averages about 20 hours per week with a rotating five day on/five day off schedule, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Week 1: Thursday & Friday
Week 2: Monday - Wednesday

What You'll Be Doing:

• Interact with patients and visitors by greeting, directing, and assisting them to their destination.
• Provide safe access to and from main entrances for those patients in need of assistance.
• Assist patients in and out of their vehicles to the appropriate destination, using a wheelchair when necessary.
• Provide information and direction to patients and visitors.
• Assist patients in obtaining transportation via taxi, minibus, etc.
• Assist patients throughout the building, collaborating with the clinical staff when necessary.
• Complete all other assigned projects and duties.
• Provide regular cleaning and inspection of wheelchairs.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

Experience: From three months to one year of similar or related experience. Strong customer service and communication skills.

Education: Equivalent to a high school diploma or GED.

Interpersonal Skills: Normal courtesy in dealing with others is required. Work involves minimal contacts, usually within the organization. Contact usually involving routine, non-sensitive issues.

Physical Aspects:

Stooping - Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.

Crouching - Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing - Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Walking - Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.
Pushing - Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

Pulling - Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - ing pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 pounds force constantly to move objects.

Environmental Conditions:
Both Inside & Outside Environmental Conditions - Activities occur inside and outside.

Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.