Medical Lab Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Job description

About Us

Richfield Medical Group- Primary Care for the Whole Family!

At Richfield Medical Group, we strive with our patients to create a collaborative, accessible healing environment where fun, passionate people thrive and excel at improving and sustaining health. We are looking for the right person to join our medical assistant team to support our growing practice! For the right person, we are offering a full time position in a very busy and long-term family practice in Richfield, MN.

Our candidates will spend most of the time working with all of our physicians in the clinic but will help assist with cross coverage in different areas of our clinic assisting with administrative support if needed. As important members of our staff, you will be responsible for assisting our physicians with their daily patient load and procedures. Specific duties include but are not limited to rooming patients, taking patient detailed histories, X-Ray, pharmacy calls and prescription refills, screening new patients, blood draws, setting up appointments, educating patients on medications and triaging patient calls.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Medical Assistants should have at least two years of experience working in an outpatient clinic.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• X-Ray experience a plus
• 2 years Phlebotomy skills a plus
• Excellent customer service and communications skills
• The preference and ability to work as part of an integrative team
• The ability to multi-task multiple things simultaneously
• Well organized with attention to detail, especially with patient records and documentation
• Treat patients and coworkers with respect
• Ability to help establish priorities and work toward solving problems and challenges as they come up
• Perform and report on assigned analytical tests under the direction of senior personnel in accordance with applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) ensuring that applicable quality control requirements are met.
• May perform some moderate complexity testing with specific on-site training and oversight.
• Actively support and comply with laboratory policies and procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analysis, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
• Adhere to analytical schedules to maintain a turnaround time of results including STATS or critical results to clients.
• Ensure reagents/test kits have received dates, expiration dates and if applicable opened dates.
• Perform and document QC analysis to ensure accuracy of clinical data and proper instrument function. Make quality control decisions regarding the disposition of an assay or test.
• Responsible for informing supervisory personnel of all problems associated with the proper performance of test procedures.
• Report any actual or potential deviation from standard or accepted testing procedures and cooperate fully with any investigation of same.
• Review and enter test results into the Laboratory Information System for standardized report to be generated for physician review and interpretation.
• Maintain laboratory areas and equipment in a safe, functional and sanitary condition.
• Complete training and competency checklists as appropriate.
• Adheres to all established CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA and laboratory safety requirements.
• Required to use (a) personal protective equipment, (b) engineering controls and/or (c) work practice controls as directed by management.
• Answer questions from clients or other lab personnel, if applicable.
• Participate in government or regulatory agency inspections, if needed.
• Other duties as assigned. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, but rather a general description of work performed by the position.