Medical Assistant

Overview

Description

Position:
Medical Assistant

Classification:
Non-Exempt

Department:
Clinic, Back Office

Report To:
Physician

SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE

A podiatry medical assistant is one whom specializes in ankle and foot care. Medical assistants keep the medical office running efficiently and take on many tasks. A podiatry medical assistant's responsibilities may include ordering, sorting, storing supplies and restocking exam rooms. Cleaning exam areas, setting up instruments and equipment and cleaning the sterilizer. Greeting patients, answering the office phones, performing data entry and scheduling appointments, assisting front office staff if and when needed and manual insurance verifications.

Any other duties determined appropriate by management.

• Prepares patients for examination by taking vitals; recording medical history into Epic
• Escorting patients to and from exam rooms
• Complying with OSHA and HIPPA regulations
• Schedules surgeries by making arrangements with the surgical centers; verifying times with patients; preparing charts, pre-admission and consent forms
• Help the physician with procedures
• Give patients injections as directed by the physician
• Casting for Orthotics
• Applying Below knee cast
• Appling Low Dying strapping to feet
• Appling Unna Boots
• Performing Nail Debridement
• Performing Callus/Corn debridement
• Dressing changes
• Performing X-Rays
• Documenting phone calls
• Returning Patient Messages;
  Completing In-Baskets
• Updating Logs

High School diploma or equivalent required.

Light travel to other offices may be required for business needs.

At least one (1) year of experience preferred, Medical Assistant Certification is preferred, Epic experience is preferred.

The physical demands described 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 must communicate professionally and courteously with patients and clinic staff. Employee must be able to sit for at least an hour at a time. Employee must be able to stand and walk for up to 20 minutes at a time.

Employee is required to assist with rooming patients, filing, and other basic office tasks to include keeping office environment and waiting room clean. This will require the ability to bend, stoop, and lift up to 5-10 lbs. The position requires the ability to utilize the computer and keyboard for long periods of time.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach and squat. Employee duties will frequently require computer usage including the ability to type as well as verbally communicate with patients and co-workers. Occasional lifting up to 30lbs. Assist patients in and out of the patient chair with support with other staff members.

We receive daily deliveries of medical products and supplies from UPS/Fed Ex in large boxes; these are unpacked by medical assistants and placed in appropriate supply cabinets throughout the offices as they arrive so as not to block corridors. Materials such as durable medical equipment (boots, braces, etc) arrive in boxes weighing over 50 pounds and require maneuvering and unpacking.

Casting for custom foot orthoses is a routine occurrence (multiple times daily) in a podiatric physician’s office. This requires retrieving and assembling materials for casting, including large basins of warmed water for plaster application. These basins when full weigh 20 pounds and require lifting from a sink to a rolling stand to be pushed to a casting suite. For pre-fabricated inserts, the ability to reach overhead (Buckhead) storage shelving or under counter (Stockbridge and Fayetteville offices) racks is imperative as we dispense these throughout the day.

Radiographs are a routine part of treatment for podiatric conditions with roughly half of patients receiving xrays on their visits. We utilize floor xrays for weight bearing capture and medical assistants are expected to aid foot positioning by kneeling or stooping to position the foot appropriately.…