MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Medical Assistant

The Medical Assistant will be responsible to perform routine administrative and clinical tasks to facilitate the physicians and other health practitioners work flow in the assessment and residential setting. Essential duties and responsibilities include keeping track of daily intakes and adding to patient roster, monitoring patients every day to ensure they are seen within standard of care, daily schedules on excel sheet, creating psychiatrist schedule, helping providers each day with any last-minute schedule changes including cancellations and late additions, attending treatment team via phone every morning to help answer any questions, communication with nurses on changes for providers, creating and maintaining on call/monthly provider schedule, assisting with communication with Medical Director and the providers, assisting with Performance Improvement chart audits, helping manage provider charge sheets for Business office, managing provider availability, off days, holidays and PTO.

Knowledge, skills and abilities include ability to inspire client confidence in the FRN Staff and the FRN Model of Treatment, ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communications the stability required to effectively assist patients and their family members through the FRN Model of Treatment, ability to build relationships with diverse individuals and groups, understanding need for and maintaining appropriate confidentiality at all times when interacting with patients, residents, families, visitors, referral sources and all other contacts, excellent verbal and written communication skills required, excellent interpersonal skills, excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle multiple competing tasks and demands, general knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.

Education and experience required include high school diploma or GED, bachelors degree of Certified Medical Assistant Certificate preferred, minimum of two years' experience in a medical assistant or similar role in a healthcare facility.