Medical Assistant AVALA Spine

Position: 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 the efficient 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.
• Learning about the medical process and using a team approach with patient documentation.
• Working with a Physician to complete medical records.
• Communicating with 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

Action Orientation - 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.

Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achievingworkable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.

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

Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, 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 help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

Professional Requirements

• Meets dress code standards andadheres to dress code policy.
• Completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains regulatoryrequirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
• Wears identification while onduty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
• Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends annual review,department in-services, staff meetings and/or reviews all monthly staff meeting minutes per Health Stream.
• Represents the organization in apositive and professional manner.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• Communicates the mission, ethics,and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the department.
• Promotes professional growth of subordinates by sharing knowledge and/or directing them to sources ifinformation appropriate to given situation. Utilizes journals, books, etc. to learn and/or improve new techniquesand equipment.
• Assists other staff members inperforming any duty that enhances the delivery of patient care.

Regulatory Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Current BLS certification
• Minimum of six (6) months to one (1) year ofrelated work experience.
• Pain management experience required.

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English,both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing 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.