Medical Assistant - Full-Time - AVALA Spine

Travel required to Metairie, Hammond and Slidell

Summary

Assists withthe delivery of care to patients. Works with patient care team to ensure theefficient flow of patients throughout their visit, providing support to them aswell as to the supervising physician.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Takingnotes during patient visits and documenting them in the electronic healthrecords system.
• Learningabout the medical process and using a team approach with patient documentation.
• Workingwith a Physician to complete medical records.
• Communicatingwith patients and Physicians professionally.
• Handlingall patient calls, refill request, all clinic duties with in timely matter.
• Helpingelectronically prescribe medication for patients.
• Coordinatesphysicians procedure schedule by scheduling cases appropriately based onsurgeon, case length, and day of week.

Core Competencies

ActionOrientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, acceptsresponsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates aresults-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.

Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys andshares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understandsvarious viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understandsrelevant detail in presented information.

Creativity / Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems thatchallenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.

CriticalJudgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achievingworkable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing withreliability.

CustomerOrientation - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increasescustomer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customerexpectations, and responds to customer needs.

InterpersonalSkills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishestrust, credibility, and confidence with others.

Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others.Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.

Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimizeresults. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and helpresolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

Professional Requirements

Regulatory Requirements

Skills

Physical Demands

The physicaldemands described here are representative of those that must be met by anemployee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Whileperforming the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talkand hear. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions,standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping all day. The employee mustfrequently lift or move items weighing up to 50 pounds. Learn More