| Title |
Bilingual Medical Assistant - PT (20 hours/week) |
| Description |
**Must be bilingual in Spanish and English**
Starting pay: $16-$20/hour
This job exists to: Provide pro-active clinical support while assisting the clinician in meeting patient care follow-up, exam room set up and meeting organizational goals.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provides patient services not requiring the need of a provider, according to established protocols.
• Assists providers with patient care in a professional manner.
o Assists providers with patient follow-up.
o Schedules/Reschedules follow up patient appointments.
o Documents patient vital signs, medications, interventions (tobacco use, screen for drug use, LMP, immunizations, etc.) and allergies during each visit in medical record.
o Anticipates provider needs, in house/outside labs, and prep patient according to the visit type.
o Provides follow up and patient education services to patients.
o Completes tasks related to patient visit as necessary such as documentation required for the Cancer Screening Program, scheduling, imaging studies, and other tasks as needed.
o Assures stocking and exam room set up is completed prior to each visit and cleaned up after each visit. Washes instruments and cleans room after last session.
o Opening and closing lab, including autoclaving and packaging of instrument.
• Assists with orientation and training of new medical assistants.
• Prepares appropriate set up for procedures according to established protocol and may assist as requested by the provider.
• Inventory instruments on a regular basis.
• Assists other teams when needed to assure appropriate MA coverage.
• Request support from professional staff when required
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Knowledgeable regarding immunizations as recommended by the CDC as well as administration techniques for pediatric through adult patients.
• Completes and passes an annual competency assessment including age-specific criteria.
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Maintains a safe work environment:
o Implements, reviews, applies and actively enforces the clinic’s safety policies.
o Supports the safety program by actively looking for opportunities to improve safety practices and evaluates staff for safety practices and ergonomic issues.
o Disciplines staff when safety policies are violated.
• Compliance:
o Knowledgeable of and compliant with laws and regulations governing area of responsibility.
o Responsible for reporting any potentially non-compliant conduct.
o Cooperates fully with our Compliance Officer in upholding our Compliance Plan.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities, as required.
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