Advanced Medical Support Assistant

Department of Veterans Affairs • Cape Girardeau, MO

26d • Onsite

About The Position

This is the Advanced Medical Support Assistant at Cape Girardeau Healthcare Clinic. The AMSA performs duties related to the receipt, intake, and indexing of health and administrative information. The incumbent will interface with personal computer (PC) applications as well as numerous Vista applications. In this grade the incumbent is at the Advanced MSA level and is working independently in collaboration with the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) with limited supervision. VA Careers - Medical Support Assistant: https://youtube.com/embed/EE9c4XkaELo This position serves as a Medical Support Assistant (Advanced) at Cape Girardeau Healthcare Clinic. The position is responsible for a wide range of assignments and provides administrative support to the assigned section.

Responsibilities

• The Advanced MSA works collaboratively in an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model (i.e., patient aligned care team, or other specialty care setting where the patient aligned care team model is used such as oncology, HIV, SCI, Military Sexual Trauma, etc.) These PACT duties will be preformed 40% of the time.
• The Advanced MSA coordinates with the patient care team to review the clinic utilization by using various reports (e.g., Clinic Utilization Statistical Summary), ensure that the clinic setup is closely monitored to effectively support the needs of the clinic, and make any necessary adjustments.
• Participating and providing input in problem solving on operational issues or procedures in team meetings, performing administrative follow up actions.
• Participating in and independently following up on team huddles by sharing information and collaborating with the medical team to assure continuity of care.
• Facilitate/process secure messaging with the patient and team.
• Educating providers about shared patients (those who receive their care at multiple VAs or those who have care in the community) and bringing to the attention of the provider.
• They develop/maintain effective and efficient communication with the patient, interdisciplinary team, VA medical centers, and other agencies (e.g., assist with communications during the inpatient to outpatient discharge; communicate with non VA medical facilities.
• Notify patients of normal lab results.
• Develop and manage a tracking system for follow up care such as consults, tests, etc.).
• Setting priorities and deadlines, adjusting the flow and sequencing of the work to meet team and patient needs.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
• After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees