PART TIME Medical Assistant

Ankle and Foot Centers of Georgia • Marietta, GA

12d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent required
• Communicate professionally and courteously with patients and clinic staff
• Sit for at least an hour at a time
• Stand and walk for up to 20 minutes at a time
• Assist with rooming patients, filing, and other basic office tasks to include keeping office environment and waiting room clean
• Bend, stoop, and lift up to 5-10 lbs
• Utilize the computer and keyboard for long periods of time
• Sit, stand, bend, reach and squat
• 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
• Unpack daily deliveries of medical products and supplies from UPS/FedEx in large boxes and place in appropriate supply cabinets
• Retrieve and assemble materials for casting, including large basins of warmed water for plaster application
• Lift basins when full (20 pounds) from a sink to a rolling stand
• Reach overhead storage shelving or under counter racks for pre-fabricated inserts
• Aid foot positioning by kneeling or stooping to position the foot appropriately for X-rays
• Bend down and lift cassettes (10 pounds) without dropping them
• Assist patients on and off treatment chairs, assist in moving limbs, removing and replacing shoes and boots
• Sit on the floor to remove shoes and socks or perform nail debridements while leaning, stooping or sitting on the ground
• Hold a limb in position for casting and/or bandage application
• Rinse, cleanse, package and sterilize instruments
• Lean over a sink and reach into a large basin while each instrument is individually handled
• Handle sterilization trays (in excess of 10 pounds)
• Prepare a sterile tray (mayo stand, sterile instrument packs and draping)
• Move 15 pound metal mayo stands into and out of rooms
• Open and assemble sterile instrument packs
• Assist with a procedure (passing medications, cutting sutures, saline flushes, retrieving specimens, etc.)
• Perform routine nail debridements under the supervision of the physician
• Prep the patient, removal of elongated or fungal toenail material with manual instrumentation and motorized grinders, cleansing of debris and re-donning socks and shoes
• Draw and deliver medications to treatment rooms
• Reach overhead into and out of lockable cabinets for medications
• Precision for medication draws to prevent wrong medication delivery and exact dose measuring to prevent adverse events
• Bring patients to the treatment rooms from the waiting room, assist with getting them into the chair, take and record vitals and pertinent medical history
• Enter information into their electronic chart
• Reach around a patients arm to assemble blood pressure cuffs to perform the read
• Adequately and accurately capture chief complaints, pertinent histories, medication lists, and vitals which must be recorded in a timely manner
• Maintain the back office supplies (inventory and replenishment) and cleaning
• Wipe down chairs with sanitizer as well as counters cabinets and any items in the room that have been touched after each patient visit
• Remove trash from the rooms and replace new bags at the end of each treatment session or day
• Collect trash at the end of each day and bring to an on-site dumpster
• Bring 3-4 large trash bags totaling 10 or more pounds to the dumpster roughly 100 yards from the building

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Manual insurance verifications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED