Women’s Health Connecticut is seeking to hire a Full-time, Certified Medical Assistant in Wethersfield, CT!
Position: Certified Medical Assistant
Location:1260 Silas Deane Highway, Suite 103, Wethersfield, CT
Employment Type: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Schedule: Monday- Friday, schedule varies between 7:30am- 4:00p or 8:00am- 5:00pm
Reports to: Practice Manager
Position Summary: Women’s Health CT is currently seeking a Certified Medical Assistant for one of our fast-paced OB/GYN practices. As a Medical Assistant with Women’s Health CT, you will be expected to complete intake for our patients, coordinate care plans and work with our providers in fostering a supportive and compassionate environment for patients and their families. If you are looking for a work culture built on collaboration, mutual respect, and positivity then this is the perfect position for you!
Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Assist the front desk and clinical team with incoming phone calls.
- Conduct patient assessments, prepare patient charts & understand intake process when rooming patients.
- Responsible for rooming patients and obtaining medical history, medications, chief complaints and transferring the information into the patients’ chart.
- Accountable for stocking and cleaning exam rooms between each visit.
- Prepare and assist with medical procedures ranging from IUD insertions to colposcopies and endometrial biopsies.
- Sterilization of instruments in the morning, evening and after patient procedures.
- Process lab orders and package specimens following office protocol.
- Adhere to OSHA lab compliance by completing logs, sterilizing medical equipment, monitoring vaccine temperatures and ensure
- Appropriately handle and escalate urgent result calls coming in for providers
- Monitor inventory of medical supplies and stock supplies when they are delivered to the office.
- Wash patient gowns daily, fold and store in exam rooms.
- Crosstrain and cover front desk as needed
- Assist the front desk and clinical team with incoming phone calls
- Handle/Schedule initial pregnancy calls, IUD placements, ultrasounds, etc.
- Actively work tasks in the WHGPMA bucket in athena, including but not limited to completing disability paperwork, contacting patient with non-urgent results, medical record requests, and prior authorizations.
- Coordinate Care with outside sources as needed.
- Support staff and assist with assignments as requested.
- Backup floor nurse/MA as needed.
- Other duties as assigned
Skills/qualifications:
- A CMA, CCMA or RMA is required.
- 1 year of Medical Assistant experience is required
- Experience working in an OBGYN setting is preferred, but not required.
- Must be proficient on a computer and familiar with EMRs
- Excellent customer service skills, strong communication and ability to diffuse situations.
- Team work values and the ability to connect with staff, Providers and patients.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply to learn more about all the position has to offer!
The Job responsibilities provided are intended to be a summary of the job duties. In no instance should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements included in a job description constitute as being all-inclusive. The Company and authorized management personnel reserve the right to review, change, add and/or delete duties, responsibilities, and requirements on a job description as necessary.