Position Summary
Performs select administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a licensed healthcare professional; administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, patient billing, and coding medical information for insurance purposes; clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and providing medical attention as directed by physician or nursing staff.Job Description
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Provides clerical and administrative support, including answering phones, setting schedules and meetings, typing documents, filing and back-up support for others.
- Prepares treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean; cleans and sterilizes equipment, instruments, rooms, etc., and appropriately disposes of contaminated supplies.
- Interviews patients via phone or in person to obtain medical information or schedule various activities; creates, updates and coordinates various medical records and files.
- Interacts with patients providing various routine information such as explaining treatment procedures, medications, diets or various pre-established instructions to patients.
- Collects blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, logs the specimens and prepares them for testing; may measure patient vital signs, weight and height.
- May perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
- May show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.
Preferred Qualifications
- Medical assistant school training or some college.
- Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing (experience in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint preferred), managing files and records, stenography and transcription and other office procedures and terminology.
- Abilities with verbal and interpersonal communication skills to communicate with patients and family members of patients.
- Healthcare environment experience desired.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent high school certification.
- Basic Life Support certification within 30 days of hire (Online BLS certifications, those without a skills assessment component, are not sufficient to meet the BLS requirements).
Grade
C04-HSalary Range
$15.91 - $21.24 / HourlyThe salary range reflects base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade across the University. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions within the same grade and department budget.Accommodation
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