Certified Medical Assistant - Per Diem
miCare Health Center
- Yakima, WA
- $19.50-23.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Yakima, WA 98901
- General MA/LPN duties
- Utilizes Medical Assistant knowledge and skills to perform tasks under the conformance of current and recognized techniques, procedures and standards. Includes but not limited to:
- Office reception, including greeting patients, answering telephone, and direct calls to patients.
- Documenting patients' demographics, history, symptoms and other significant information as directed by the Practitioner(s).
- Medication administration.
- Assisting with or performing procedures
- Managing patient flow.
- Perform effective communication with miCare team and patient to ensure coordination of care.
- Carry out Practitioner(s) orders accurately and directly.
- Document provided care as required.
- Operational Responsibilities
- Inventory, ordering and restocking supplies.
- Maintaining documentation and patient files.
- Maintain a functional and clean work environment.
- Maintain procedure manual, update as needed. Ensure consistent management to procedures.
- Facilitation of Health Fairs/annual HRA draws/flu shots for participating employers.
- In collaboration with Marketing, develop of materials for sales and marketing the miCare clinics.
- Presentation to potential and existing clients.
- Customer Service
- Acts as a role model in demonstrating the core values in customer service delivery.
- Provides timely and thorough follow up with, internal and external customers.
- Appropriately escalates difficult issues up the chain of command.
- Quality Assurance
- Serves on committees, work groups, and/or process improvement teams, as assigned, to assist in improving quality/customer satisfaction.
- Recognizes and alerts appropriate supervisor of trends within their scope of responsibility that fall outside of quality parameters.
- Performs self quality monitoring in order to develop and execute plans to meet established goals.
- Provides ongoing feedback to help optimize quality performance.
- Collaborates with others and cross-departmentally to improve or streamline procedures.
- Develops new or improves current internal processes to improve quality
- Trains new employees as assigned
- Graduate of a certified medical assistant program
- 2+ years clinical medical assistant experience with phlebotomy skills.
- Medical terminology proficiency.
- Current BLS
- Working knowledge of computers and software including but not limited to Microsoft Office products
- Proficient typing skills
- Demonstrated organizational skills, problem-solving, analytical skills and detail oriented
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize workloads multi-task and manage priorities in order to meet deadlines
- Ability to maintain the confidentiality of protected health information in compliance with HIPAA regulations
- Work is indoors in an office environment with moderate noise.
- Intermittent physical effort involving lifting of up to 25 pounds, standing, sitting, walking, and stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, and supporting patients is required.
- A typical workday may involve exposure to virus, disease and infections.
- Also frequent use of a keyboard, and reaching with hands and arms required.
- Normal vision and hearing abilities required, including close vision and ability to adjust focus.
- Professional development initiatives / continuous learning opportunities
- Opportunities to participate in and support the company's diversity and inclusion initiatives