What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Cleveland Clinic?
Medical Assistant
Join Cleveland Clinic's Lakewood Family Health Center and become a part of one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. Lakewood Family Health Center has been providing top-quality patient care and a wide variety of specialties to the communities in and around Lakewood since opening in the summer of 2018. Lakewood Family Health Center also offers multiple specialty centers, such as a Center for Family Medicine, Center for LGBTQ Care, Emergency Department and more.
Medical assistants have various administrative and clinical duties. These may include taking medical histories, explaining procedures to patients, collecting, and preparing specimens for the lab or performing basic laboratory tests themselves, administering or instructing patients on the proper uses of medications, drawing blood, taking electrocardiograms, removing sutures, and changing dressings. We have a medical school associated with our office where our Medical Assistants play a significant role in training. We get to shape medicine's future and set the standard for physician/nursing interactions.
A caregiver in this position works 8:00am—5:30pm or 12:00pm—9:00pm.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Assist with performing screenings and treatments by gathering and updating information related to health maintenance, identifying medication changes, updating allergy information, collecting specimens, performing tests and documenting patient care.
Monitor and communicate changes in patient condition.
Maintain equipment, medical supplies and examination areas.
Perform administrative/clerical duties, such as filing, reception, scheduling, data entry and patient registration.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Graduate from an approved medical assisting program OR military training as a hospital Corpsman (HM), Combat Medic (68W) or Medical Service Technician (4N0X1).
Completion of a clinical externship OR extensive clinical experience.
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Medical Assisting certification.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA). If you do not hold this certification, you must obtain it during your new hire period.
Successful completion of a Cleveland Clinic externship.
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Physical Requirements:
Manual dexterity to operate office equipment.
May require extended periods of standing, walking or sitting.
Good visual acuity through normal or corrected vision.
Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.
Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.
Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000
