What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Virginia Heart?
Location: Arlington, VA
Status: Full-Time / Non-Exempt
Salary Range: $21.00 - $25.00
Are you looking for new career opportunities, great wages, excellent benefits, and work-life balance? Follow your heart to Virginia Heart!
At Virginia Heart, we are looking for friendly, dependable and compassionate Medical Assistants to perform day-to-day clinical and administrative support to the clinical offices in a manner consistent with Virginia Heart’s mission of providing extraordinary cardiovascular care to our community. The medical assistant must exhibit a high level of customer service, communication skills, and accuracy with medical documentation.
Benefits
When you work with Virginia Heart, you will enjoy a dedicated and experienced staff, competitive wages, excellent benefits and the following rewards and incentives:
Responsibilities
Status: Full-Time / Non-Exempt
Salary Range: $21.00 - $25.00
Are you looking for new career opportunities, great wages, excellent benefits, and work-life balance? Follow your heart to Virginia Heart!
At Virginia Heart, we are looking for friendly, dependable and compassionate Medical Assistants to perform day-to-day clinical and administrative support to the clinical offices in a manner consistent with Virginia Heart’s mission of providing extraordinary cardiovascular care to our community. The medical assistant must exhibit a high level of customer service, communication skills, and accuracy with medical documentation.
Benefits
When you work with Virginia Heart, you will enjoy a dedicated and experienced staff, competitive wages, excellent benefits and the following rewards and incentives:
- No Nights, weekends, or holidays!
- Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision plans
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Paid Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program for Mental and Physical well-being
- Three Weeks of Paid Vacation upon eligibility
- One week of Paid Sick Leave
- Annual Merit-Based increases
- Career Advancement Opportunities
- Employee Referral Bonuses
- Employee Discount Programs
- Employee Appreciation: Events to include therapy dogs, raffles, and other fun events
Responsibilities
- Supports the clinical and office staff by performing clinical administrative tasks such as phone screening, appointment confirmation calls, orders management, data entry into the EMR, etc.
- Create and/or update patient demographic and clinical information in the EMR as needed.
- Responsible for taking patients from waiting room, performing vitals and preparing them for provider visits into EMR as well as updating medical history as part of intake process.
- Assists the provider’s and/or clinicians with patients in the office and is to include but not limited to the following tasks:
- Clinical Chart Preparation
- Gather appropriate documents and signatures necessary to assist the clinician in making treatment decision.
- Provides patient education and assists patients with clinical questions as needed and appropriate.
- Notifies patients of test results per protocol as needed.
- Provides professional and efficient telephone services to patients and Virginia Heart staff and transfers/handles calls as appropriate.
- Provides a safe environment for patients and staff.
- Works as a resuscitative team member in emergency situations within their level of expertise and training.
- The medical assistant is responsible for knowing the location of the medical supplies and medication on the emergency cart and the proper operation of emergency equipment within their scope.
- Medical Assistant Certification Preferred
- High School Diploma, or equivalent
- Previous experience working in a medical office with both administrative and clinical experience required
- Computer Literate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Prior experience with the use of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) preferred.
Salary : $21 - $25