Medical Assistant IV

Position Summary:

The Medical Assistant is responsible for assisting clinic operations with greeting patients, taking vitals, assisting providers with procedures and tests, and performing miscellaneous tasks. The Medical Assistant is responsible for ensuring patients are seen and cared for according to the scope of their training.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• MAs are expected to assist all other MAs in building and improving skills in all areas
• Greets patients warmly upon arrival and/or when rooming patients
• Stock exam rooms with supplies and maintain inventory
• Perform CLIA Waived Testing
• Perform all quality assurance and quality control processes
• Maintains medical supplies and cleans/sterilizes the medical instruments and equipment
• Prepares specimen samples for laboratory transportation
• Note the brief history or the reason for the visit in the patient's chart
• Takes and records height, weight, and blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration, temperature, and the provider's unusual changes.
• Takes health and family history
• Administers treatment, medications, and injections as ordered by the provider and documents appropriately
• Prepares and drapes patients for examinations
• Ensures patients have been properly instructed using approved written instructions, regarding
• proper preparations for tests/procedures ordered by the provider
• Assists the provider with the patient examinations, treatment, and surgical procedures
• Completes all charting by the end of each day
• Adheres to the Medical Assistant's scope of practice at all times
• Answers phone calls, takes detailed telephone messages, and documents all patient information communication in the patient's chart
• Responds to patient communications and delivers complete messages to the appropriate individual per practice protocol
• Files/scans patient charts and records
• Maintains strict confidentiality and treats staff, physicians, patients, and visitors with respect
• Performs selected clerical and administrative duties and assists physicians as part of the care team
• Adheres to all policies and guidelines outlined in the Employee Handbook
• Performs all other duties as directed by Management

Compensation:  

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be up to $25/hour for a Level IV however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, licensure, skills, and experience.

The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus and discretionary awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered.

Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary