The Certified Medical Assistant Float fills in for shifts as needed throughout the Northwest Medical Group.
This includes covering vacation time, FMLA or sick days.
The Certified Medical Assistant Float is responsible for assessing and reassessing patients, maintaining accurate patient records including filing of reports in designated areas, scheduling of appropriate tests when indicated, responding to patient phone calls, speaking with pharmacies when indicated under the supervision of the provider.
Education: Graduate of a high school or equivalent required.
Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant Program preferred.
Experience:Experience in related health care field preferred Experience in a relevant physician office role preferred.
Licensure & Certification: Certified Medical Assistant through AAMA or an equivalent required within 3 months of hire.
CPR Certification required within 3 months of hire.
General Responsibilities:Collects patient health information which is communicated by written and verbally to appropriate health professionals in order to identify actual and potential problems.
Demonstrates an ability of safe medication and treatment administration.
Correctly identify patients accepting responsibility for individual actions including activities that may be considered fraudulent, illegal or inappropriate.
Deliver care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, and ethical manner which preserves and protects the patient autonomy, confidentiality, dignity and rights.
Commitment to Purpose and Community Cares Standards of Behavior - Demonstrates a commitment to the organization's mission, vision and values supporting organizational decisions and behaviors.
Contributes to the development and implementation of systems and processes ensuring strategic goal attainment.
Actively participates, models and supports work aligned with the five pillars (Quality, Service, People, Finance, and Growth).
Actively participates, models, and supports positive behaviors and transparent communications.
Developing Expertise - Takes action to continue to develop and acquire new expertise that is of increasing value to the organization Relationships, Conversation and Collaboration - Works as part of a team with others, and shows respect and values diversity toward others.
Service Orientation - Demonstrates efforts to discovering, meeting and advocating for the customer's needs.
Actively participates to improve the patient experience.
Excellence Orientation - Takes actions to continually improve quality and safety in daily work.
Actively participates in improving work processes to meet and exceed customer requirements.
Identifies opportunities for improvement based on process observation, outcome measures, and feedback from patients and other customers.
Reports errors in a timely and appropriate manner.
Takes initiative and is accountable for areas of responsibility meeting regulatory requirements including but not limited to maintaining annual TB testing, completing annual mandatories, and maintaining current registration/certification/licensures as appropriate to position requirements.
Problem Solving - The ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces or tracing the implications in a step-by-step way.
Initiative - The identification of a problem, obstacle, or opportunity and proactively taking action to address current or future problems/opportunities.
Impact and Influence - The ability to persuade, convince, influence, or impress others (individuals or groups) in order to get them to go along with or to support one's opinion or position.
The key is to understand others, since Impact and Influence is based on the desire to have a specific impact or effect on others.
Organizational Awareness - The ability to understand and learn the influence relationships in one's own organization or in other organizations (e.g., key stakeholders, suppliers, etc.).
This includes the ability to identify who the real decision makers are; the individuals who can influence them; and to predict how new events or situations will affect individuals and groups within the organization.
HIPAA - Has an understanding of organization's HIPAA policies and procedures and uses this knowledge to practice in a manner that maintains the confidentiality of protected health information in compliance with HIPAA.
Patient Safety/Risk Management - Understands the importance of patient safety and actively participates in safe practices.
Identifies and reports actual events and potentially hazardous situations as outlines in hospital procedures.Uses safe practices to take action when necessary to protect the health and well-being of patients, visitor and/or coworkers.Works collaboratively to find ways of safeguarding patients, visitors and/or coworkers.For positions with age specific competencies, must be able to identify and implement appropriate safety measures for all ages of patient services.
Knows and participates as appropriate in organization's Corporate Compliance Program.
Identifies and reports work activities that may potentially be considered inappropriate, illegal or fraudulent.