Smilow Cancer Hospital
Medical Assistant
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Smilow Cancer Hospital
Overview To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values – integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion – must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day. Under the direction of the Registered Nurse and as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, the role provides patient‑centered care based upon respect for patients’ preferences, values, and needs.
Responsibilities
Patient Centered Care: Provide care and services with information regarding individual values, preferences, and needs, respecting the patient or designee as a full partner in care.
Communication: Interact effectively with patients, families, and all health‑care providers and employees, fostering mutual respect to enhance the patient experience and health outcomes. Utilize appropriate methods for interacting effectively and professionally with persons of all ages and diverse backgrounds.
Team Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary teams, demonstrating open communication, mutual respect, team learning, and development. Demonstrate self‑awareness, recognize limitations, and communicate concerns to appropriate team members.
Quality & Safety: Minimize risk of harm by ensuring effective individual and team performance adhering to high‑reliability organization principles. Demonstrate effective use of equipment that supports quality and safe patient care.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate information, mitigate error, and support team decision making. Maintain competencies in clinical applications related to responsibilities.
Professional Development: Demonstrate accountability for clinical competency in care delivery. Maintain accountability and responsibility for own practice.
Clinical Responsibilities: Perform clinical functions as per scope of practice, including vital sign measurement, specimen collection, and patient preparation per standard rooming workflow.
Administrative Responsibilities: Perform clerical functions such as sending and receiving patient medical records and abstracting new patient records into EPIC.
Environmental Support: Set up instruments and equipment according to department protocol.
Qualifications Education Minimum of a high school diploma or GED; preferred completion of an accredited postsecondary medical assisting program, Nursing Assistant Program, or Patient Care Associate Training.
Experience Preferred 12–18 months experience as a Medical Assistant, Nursing Assistant, or Patient Care Associate in an outpatient clinical setting. Clinical competency required.
Licensure Preferred current medical assisting credential acceptable to the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Special Skills Effective communication with patients, families, peers, and interdisciplinary team. Flexibility in adjusting priorities and work plans based on patient needs and team input.
Physical Demand Able to lift a minimum of 40 pounds and perform tasks requiring physical endurance and dexterity. Proper body mechanics must be used.
EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran
YNHHS Requisition ID: 152769
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Health Care Provider
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role at
Smilow Cancer Hospital
Overview To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values – integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion – must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day. Under the direction of the Registered Nurse and as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, the role provides patient‑centered care based upon respect for patients’ preferences, values, and needs.
Responsibilities
Patient Centered Care: Provide care and services with information regarding individual values, preferences, and needs, respecting the patient or designee as a full partner in care.
Communication: Interact effectively with patients, families, and all health‑care providers and employees, fostering mutual respect to enhance the patient experience and health outcomes. Utilize appropriate methods for interacting effectively and professionally with persons of all ages and diverse backgrounds.
Team Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and interdisciplinary teams, demonstrating open communication, mutual respect, team learning, and development. Demonstrate self‑awareness, recognize limitations, and communicate concerns to appropriate team members.
Quality & Safety: Minimize risk of harm by ensuring effective individual and team performance adhering to high‑reliability organization principles. Demonstrate effective use of equipment that supports quality and safe patient care.
Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate information, mitigate error, and support team decision making. Maintain competencies in clinical applications related to responsibilities.
Professional Development: Demonstrate accountability for clinical competency in care delivery. Maintain accountability and responsibility for own practice.
Clinical Responsibilities: Perform clinical functions as per scope of practice, including vital sign measurement, specimen collection, and patient preparation per standard rooming workflow.
Administrative Responsibilities: Perform clerical functions such as sending and receiving patient medical records and abstracting new patient records into EPIC.
Environmental Support: Set up instruments and equipment according to department protocol.
Qualifications Education Minimum of a high school diploma or GED; preferred completion of an accredited postsecondary medical assisting program, Nursing Assistant Program, or Patient Care Associate Training.
Experience Preferred 12–18 months experience as a Medical Assistant, Nursing Assistant, or Patient Care Associate in an outpatient clinical setting. Clinical competency required.
Licensure Preferred current medical assisting credential acceptable to the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Special Skills Effective communication with patients, families, peers, and interdisciplinary team. Flexibility in adjusting priorities and work plans based on patient needs and team input.
Physical Demand Able to lift a minimum of 40 pounds and perform tasks requiring physical endurance and dexterity. Proper body mechanics must be used.
EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran
YNHHS Requisition ID: 152769
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Health Care Provider
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