MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Job Description

Job Description

Position Description : Medical Assistant needed for a fast-paced medical clinic. Assists providers with patient care and treatment. Facilitates the efficient delivery of patient care, supports the professional staff, and provides support and assistance as directed by licensed staff in rendering basic healthcare to the patient. Assists with clerical functions as a multi-skilled worker.

Essential Functions :

• Is on-time and in attendance for scheduled shifts. Shifts may include evenings and Saturdays a MUST.
• Complies with all clinic policies and procedures, especially patient confidentiality requirements.
• Prepares patients for examinations and diagnostic procedures according to clinic procedures such as recording vital signs, pulse rate, blood pressure and responses to standardized medical history questions.
• Ensures patient medical information, is entered correctly into the clinic computer system.
• Acts as a chaperone for health care providers during patient examination and assists with procedures.
• Monitors and cleans assigned patient examination rooms and equipment, reports outdated supplies, supply levels and restocks items.
• Completes assigned side jobs such as instrument cleaning and preparation, patient room cleaning and stocking and other clinic wide duties.
• Answers telephones, forwards telephone messages, schedules appointments, procedures, and diagnostic testing.
• Assists in routine clerical functions such as filing medical information in patient records, locating and compiling charts in electronic medical records, obtaining medical records from other providers and other duties as assigned.
• Attends and completes mandatory in-service training including infection control, safety, CPR, equipment usage and clinic policies and procedures.
• Attends mandatory staff meetings.
• May assist in patient and family education by providing educational material and general health information to patients and family members.
• Complete all meaningful use requirements necessary for the EHR system.
• Any other duties assigned.

Requirements : - Completion of a certified Medical Assistant program or current certification as an EMT-Intermediate