Medical Assistant/ Medical Secretary- Cancer Genetics Job at Mount Auburn Hospit

Medical Assistant/ Medical Secretary- Cancer Genetics

The Medical Assistant provides high quality, direct patient care in a team-based model to our BILH Primary Care-Mt. Auburn patients and supports smooth and efficient administrative and clinical practice operations.

Essential Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Through relationship development and care team coordination, contributes to the BILH Primary Care-Mt. Auburn patient, practice, and organizational goals.
• Assists patient over the course of their visit: facilitates timely flow and informs patient and provider of any delay in a timely manner, engages with patient on visit reason, updates medication and allergy lists, reviews screening questions.
• Communicates clearly with patient and team: provides hand-off to provider entering the exam room.
• Performs medical assisting duties under proper supervision, which may include obtaining accurate vital signs, height, and weight measurements, performing EKGs, point of care testing, phlebotomy, administering immunizations, and assisting during routine procedures.
• Essential to Population Health efforts by leading conversations to meet quality and population health goals through outreach and health coaching.
• Monitors, orders, and/or maintains medical equipment and supplies, ensuring they are clean, sterilized, stocked, and within expiration dates.
• Works within the electronic health record system to queue prescription renewals and add new medications for review by a licensed provider.
• Schedules related diagnostic and lab tests making every reasonable effort to accommodate patient and provider needs.
• Identifies OSHA compliance issues and ensures patient safety practices to prevent/eliminate risk of patient harm.

Required Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED required. Bachelor's degree in Health Science preferred.
• License Medical Assistant Certificate preferred, or Registration Certified Nursing Assistant preferred, or Certificate 1 EMT Basic License preferred, or Certificate 2 Phlebotomy Certificate preferred.
• 0-1 years related work experience required.
• Demonstrated Medical Assistant (MA) competencies within one year of hire.
• Basic familiarity with computers. Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Medical Assistant

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.