Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant

Responsibilities The Medical Assistant is responsible for supporting both the front and back office, including greeting and rooming patients, scheduling, answering phones, taking vitals, drawing blood, administering vaccines, and providing additional clinical support wherever needed. Maintaining a collaborative relationship with the center's staff is a key ingredient to success in this position.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of medical assistant experience (in addition to an externship)
• Medical Assistant Certification strongly preferred
• Phlebotomy/venipuncture and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) experience required
• Attention to detail, ability to communicate effectively with patients and strong computer skills required
• You should want to work in an environment where health education and outreach is important to you and challenges you to make a difference

Required Skills

• Front/Back-office experience
• Phlebotomy
• EKG
• POC testing
• Scheduling
• Rooming patients
• Take vitals
• BLS or CPR Experience Required?* 2 - 3 Min. Educational Requirement None

Vendor Questionnaire

• How many blood draws did the candidate perform in the last 6 months? Yes No
• Does the candidate have recent experience in scheduling appointments? Yes No
• Does the candidate have recent experience in taking/recording vital signs? Yes No
• Does the candidate have recent experience in rooming patients? Yes No
• Does the candidate have a current BLS or CPR, if no when do you expect the candidate to obtain it? Yes No
• Is your candidate experienced with EKG testing (preferred) Yes No
• Does your candidate have experience with Point of Care Testing within the past 6 months? Yes No
• Does your candidate have Athena-EMR experience? Yes No