Certified Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant

Assists the medical team restoring clients' health by performing routine administrative and clinical tasks to keep the offices of health practitioners running smoothly.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations, calling for assistance from direct care support personnel.
• Maintains medical supplies inventory and performs preventative maintenance to keep medical equipment operating.
• Protects clients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Assists register nurse with calling clients for appointments and for no shows.
• Administers medication to clients if needed; updates and documents medication list and pharmacy of choice and notation on clients EMR record.
• Prepares patients for examination by performing preliminary test; taking blood pressure, weight, and temperature; and reporting patient history summary.
• Promotes clients' independence by establishing client care goals; teaching client to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions.
• Document's client care services by charting in client and department records.
• Maintains continuity among treatment team by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among treatment team members by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
• Maintains client confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Assist register nurse with office tasks and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Clinical Skills, Infection Control, Medical Assistant Skills, Physiological Knowledge, Administering Medication, Medical Teamwork, Multi-tasking, Listening, Verbal Communication, Health Promotion and Maintenance. To successfully perform in this position, the employee must be able to execute each duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to maintain an active Florida Driver's License.

Education and/or Experience: Associate of Science degree in medical assistance field, and/or medical assistant certification or registered medical assistant, with a minimum of two years' experience in medical office.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply reasoning ability to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.

Physical demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and be able to talk, hear and see. The employee will have to sit and stand for indefinite periods of time.

Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and peripheral vision.

The employee may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to fifteen pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Most of the work is in a climate-controlled facility. The noise level varies from quiet to moderate too loud.