Medical Assistant

Job Summary:

Responsible for preparing patients for interaction with provider, assists with coordination of quality patient care, lab work, administering medications and immunizations, and performing routine clinical duties as directed by the provider.

Primary Responsibilities and Specific Duties:

• Participates in patient care coordination, pre-visit planning, huddles, one-on-one communication, email, patient contact, and documentation of any services accessed and/or health care related concerns/needs that have arisen since last visit.
• Participate in team meetings to communicate and address patient care and operational requirements.

Routine clinical duties:

• Answer the telephone in a courteous and professional manner.
• Collect patient history and gather information pertinent to visit; document all communication to patients and clinicians.
• Continuous monitoring of the care team's schedule, provider schedules, and patient appointments.
• Reviews charts for documentation, billing, and/or grammatical errors.
• Administer immunizations and medication as ordered while utilizing the rights of safe medication administration.
• Communicate with clinician frequently regarding patient care.
• Fax orders or prescriptions to hospitals, pharmacies, or other vendors.
• Assist patient and clinician in exam areas.
• Give treatments/procedures as directed.
• Assist clinicians with Administrative paperwork.
• Schedule patient appointments as needed.
• Label and process specimens.
• Communicates to supervisor/provider or leads all cases needing a higher level of intervention in a timely fashion.
• Perform various test (glucose, hemoglobin, strep, and all other test required and specified),
• Will perform in a professional manner at all times, by maintaining strong interpersonal, listening, and communication skills to exceed customer service expectations.

Other duties may include:

• Track and monitors immunizations and injections; prepare monthly reports, such as VFC and Florida shots.
• Maintain supply inventories and medical stock in exam rooms and nursing station; keep secured; check expiration dates; order supplies as needed.
• May assist with Managed Care lists.
• Maintains, responds, and utilizes working relationships with and knowledge of referral sources, community resources, and collaboratively works with other departments
• Participates in the orientation of clinical support staff as requested.
• Team members in this role will need to be familiar with navigating daily tasks and workflow within an electronic health record which includes creating and updating electronic documentation using electronic tools and applications on portable computing devices, results review, order entry and clinical decision support.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:

• High School or vocational diploma or equivalent.

Experience:

• At least one year experience in all aspects of medical assistant functions preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate organizational skills and attention to detail, and possess a good working knowledge of electronic medical records.

Special Skills:

• Ability to deal with patients effectively in upsetting situations; able to function professionally in emergency situations.
• Bilingual skills preferred.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $16 - $18