Medical Assistant Float
About The Position
For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. It is time to take your career to the next level. As a Senior Medical Assistant Float at Optum, you will learn from health care experts as you work side by side to provide care for patients in a clinical setting. As a float you will provide critical coverage across multiple clinics for short-term staffing needs and will occasionally work from an administrative site to support telephonic outreach, remote tasking support, and other remote patient care activities. You will build meaningful relationships with patients, their family members, health care providers, and office staff while providing high-quality direct patient care. We’ll offer you more than talent, resources, and can-do culture. We’ll provide you with a chance to improve the lives of others while helping improve the lives of millions.
Requirements
- Completion of a Medical Assistant program
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from AHA or willing to obtain by date of hire
- 4+ years of experience working as a Medical Assistant
- Access to reliable transportation to travel to various locations within designated region/pod
Nice To Haves
- Phlebotomy certification
- Certified Preceptor Certification
- 3+ years of experience in a multi-provider setting
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR) experience
- Bilingual English and Spanish
Responsibilities
- Delivers high-quality patient care through face-to-face, telephone, and electronic contact for examination, treatment, monitoring, and preparing for diagnostic tests or procedures at various sites and departments within an assigned geographic region
- Collects and documents patient information, including vital signs, chief complaints, reviews of medications, allergies, health risk screening information, the status of extended care benefits, and other services
- Assists physicians and nursing personnel with injections, EKGs, phlebotomy, and other patient care procedures as directed
- Coordinates patient care as directed by physicians, company standards, and policies
- Assists with tasks, phone calls, and messages; documents all taken actions
- Proper, concise, and complete EMR documentation and paper-based documentation for all assessments and procedures
- Prepares and cleans patient rooms and sets up instruments and equipment according to protocol while maintaining infection control
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
