What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Balance Health?
Description
Balance Health is the nation’s premier comprehensive lower-extremity focused Physician Practice. We provide leading Podiatrists, Orthopedic Surgeons, and Physical Therapists with operational support so they can spend their time focused on growing their business and delivering exceptional patient care.
Balance Health is currently looking for a Medical Assistant in our SoCal Oceanside location. The Medical Assistant works with the Physician and other members of the primary or specialty care team by performing a variety of clinical and administrative patient-related duties. The Medical Assistant also works to fulfill a variety of patient needs and ensures smooth patient flow within the department.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Greets patients on the phone and in person
- Places patients in the exam rooms
- Takes vital signs and perform ancillary tests appropriate to skill level
- Assists and sets up for providers during examination, treatment, and procedures
- Keeps accurate patient files
- Applies dressing, bandages, and splints as ordered by provider
- Ensures rooms are stocked with necessary supplies
- Maintains a sanitized and safe working environment
- Maintains HIPAA
- Coordination of services between multiple practices demonstrable by excellent communication skills
- Performs other medical assistant duties as necessary
Requirements
- Strong computer skills, including basic keyboarding skills
- Ability to navigate through patient records systems
- Ability to analyze situations, prioritize, develop solutions, and make recommendations
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Excellent customer service and communication skills over the telephone
- Ability to community sensitively and effectively with patients
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of medical practice terminology
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, stoop, crouch, or kneel; use hands; and talk or hear
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and, depth perception
- Must be able to lift/carry up to 25 lbs.
Education and Experience
- Minimum High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Experience in fast paced scheduling or call center
- Experience in an outpatient practice
- 1 years of medical assistant experience
- Current American Heart Association CPR Certification
- Certification from an approved medical assistant program or equivalent combination of training
- Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work unsupervised or with minimal supervision
- Ability to respond appropriately to emergencies
- Ability to adapt to advancement and changing technology
- Ability to show attention to detail, accuracy and thoroughness
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with all levels of staff
- Able to coordinate patient services, assist patients with office, medications and procedure authorizations and explain process to patients
- Ability to use EMR and perform chart abstraction into EMR
- Strong computer skills and use of Microsoft office
- Ability to prioritize work efficiently
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills and writing skills
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Must be able to multi-task and be flexible in changing work assignments at short notice, which includes increasing work hours as needed to cover the practice needs
- Ability to work in a fast-paced setting
- Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds at a time
or any combination of academic education and professional training and development along with applied work experience that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.
Benefits of Working with Balance Health
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
- HSA with Employer Contribution
- FSA
- Generous PTO Program
- 401k with a 3% Match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
To find out more, visit https://balancehealth.com/
Salary : $21 - $25
