Specialty Clinic Medical Assistant or Clinic Assistant

TITLE: Specialty Clinic Medical Assistant or Clinic Assistant

Department

Grant Regional Community Specialty Clinic - ENT

Position status/Hours

• Full-time .9
• FTE (72 hours/pay period)
• Monday-Friday
• Various shifts, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, 4 days per week.

Benefit eligible position!

Job summary

The Specialty Clinic CMA/Clinic Assistant will work with multiple providers in the specialty clinic, with primary focus in ENT. Work schedule subject to change to meet the needs of the clinic/patients. The employee must have flexibility to work Monday-Friday. The day off per week will not be a set day.

Essential tasks/Duties

• The Medical Assistant (MA) or Clinic Assistant will work in the Grant Regional Specialty Clinic and will:
• Work with multiple physicians, mid-level providers, RN, LPN, CMA and registration staff in a pod nursing environment
• Room patients, prepare for visit, and assist provider with patient care, visit, and flow
• Perform tasks such as specimen collection/testing/recording of results/labeling, vision/color testing, cultures, hematology testing, glucose testing, pregnancy testing, etc
• Assist, prepare, and administer immunizations and other injections; administer medications by all routes excluding intravenous infusion, as directed
• Assist with suturing and casting; ear and eye irrigations; staple/suture removal and dressing changes; set up surgical tray and assist with minor office surgeries
• Office skills: answer phone, take/return accurate messages; phone prescriptions to pharmacy, telephone lab/test results to patient
• Obtain insurance authorizations
• Work with other health care providers to assist in the provision of delegated aspects of patient care
• Use basic communication skills to enhance a patient’s expression of needs
• Organize, within the specified work period, those delegated aspects of care for which he/she is accountable
• Ensure patient satisfaction by providing kind, attentive and conscientious care