Medical Assistant II - Outpatient Cardiology Clinic

Job Description

We are searching for a Medical Assistant II with our Outpatient Cardiology Clinic at The West Campus location. The successful candidate will work well in a fast‑paced setting, provide patient care and excellent customer service, and assist in coordination of flow and provider schedules to effectively manage patient care.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

• CCMA – Certified Clinical Medical Assistant certificate from the National Health Career Association (required)
• CMA‑AAM – Certified Medical Assistant from the American Association of Medical Assistants
• EMT (CPR‑certified) – Certified Emergency Medical Technologist from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (required)
• EMT‑A – Certified Advanced Emergency Medical Technologist from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (required)
• EMT‑B – Certified Emergency Medical Technologist‑Basic from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (required)
• EMT‑I – Certified Emergency Medical Technologist‑Intermediate from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (required)
• EMT‑P – Certified Emergency Medical Technologist‑Paramedic from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (required
• LIC PAR – License Paramedic from the Texas Department of State and Health Services (required)
• NCMA – National Medical Assistant Certification from the National Center for Competency Testing (required)
• NRCMA – Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant from the National Association of Health Professionals (required)
• RMA – Registered Medical Assistant from the American Association of Medical Personnel, American Allied Health, American Medical Technologists, or American Registry of Medical Assistants (required)
• Two years of related experience (required)

• Responds to customer questions with prompt information and/or services related to appointment status, wait time, or unanticipated problems
• Performs patient registration procedures per clinic process
• Utilizes the patient management system to mark the arrival of patients and opens accounts
• Changes status of all non‑arrived patients daily to reflect canceled, no‑show, or rescheduled status
• Prioritizes patients to be roomed based on appointment and arrival times and other clinic procedures
• Assists, as needed, licensed staff with the non‑financial aspects of the inpatient admission process
• Assists with patient escorts and helps with paperwork as needed
• Assists in the collection and documentation of patient/family data which includes biophysical and psychosocial information according to clinic scope
• Reports abnormal or out‑of‑range data to RN or provider
  
  Ensures that requisitions have necessary clinical, demographic, billing, and payor information
• Monitors patient flow and fills in or assigns staff as necessary to avoid bottleneck and assure minimal patient wait time

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s first community hospital designed, built, and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city’s most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan‑College Station, Texas. Located at I‑10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007‑square‑foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, a 16‑bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full‑scale pharmacy.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children’s without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.