Medical Assistant II – Psychiatry

Place Abstract
Place features as a Medical Assistant within the division of Grownup Psychiatry. This place works in shut collaboration with the clinic prescribers and assists with the affected person care coordination and affected person associated duties; furthering our mission of offering well being care in a method that finest serves our various affected person inhabitants.

Job Description

Major Duties and Tasks

Affected person Care Duties

• Interacts immediately with sufferers in clinic setting together with digital visits, and completes medical duties, which incorporates acquiring very important indicators, and rooming of sufferers.
• Assists with examinations, procedures, and lab exams.
• Could administer medicines below the order of physicians or nurse practitioner (this consists of IM and subcutaneous injections).
• Prepares and maintains affected person care rooms.
• Prepares affected person charts for go to.
• Cross protection of different clinic workplace employees as wanted.
• Assists with completion of prior authorization for affected person medicines.
• Assists suppliers with renewal and authorization of non-narcotic medicines per standing orders and division tips.

Communication and Documentation

• Assists with remedy renewals, affected person communication and assists with affected person circulate.
• Assists with completion of obligatory FMLA/incapacity paperwork and documentation in a well timed method.
• Assists with care coordination and affected person go to prep by performing duties outlined below the division tips, resembling calling sufferers with take a look at outcomes, calling affected person to replace medicines, well being historical past, and social historical past, scheduling appointments, aiding with return calls; scheduling diagnostic procedures, and admissions; together with scheduling of follow-up appointments and process appointments.
• Order entry within the digital medical document, completes requisitions/orders per Washington College tips.
• Assists suppliers with affected person messages together with MyChart messages, digital refill requests, and phone communications, which would come with returning telephone calls to sufferers or routing to acceptable personnel. Solutions fundamental questions from affected person/household relating to remedies, analysis, and procedures.

Gear and Provides

• Screens provide stock, making certain enough provides, tools, or clothes can be found and that they adjust to laws.
• Cleans and shares affected person care rooms and sterilizes affected person care rooms and any devices or tools.

Different Features

• Maintains required HIPAA compliance, expertise/competencies and participates in in-services, employees applications, persevering with schooling, and cross-training applications in response to established requirements and Washington College insurance policies.
• Complies with OSHA, state, and federal regulatory sources/requirements.
• Participates in high quality enchancment actions to make sure acceptable medical outcomes.
• Performs different duties as assigned.

Most popular {Qualifications}

• Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant program is required.
• Two or extra years of Medical Assistant expertise.
• Interactive communication expertise with means to work with physicians, sufferers, households, important others, and help employees.
• Sturdy interpersonal, organizational, and phone expertise, working information of anatomy and physiology, fundamentals of medical terminology, and expertise/information working with digital medical data.

Variety is a core worth at Washington College College of Medication and within the Division of Psychiatry. We’re dedicated to constructing and sustaining inclusive and equitable working and studying environments for all college students, employees, trainees, and school. We consider that constructing a various group enriches us individually and as a division by exposing us to a broad vary of the way to know and have interaction with the world, determine challenges, and to find, design and ship options.

As a way to obtain these targets, candidates are anticipated to align with the college’s mission of selling inclusive excellence. They need to be ready to additional this goal inside Washington College and collaborate with various communities of scholars, school, employees, trainees, and sufferers. Go to our Web sites to study extra about DEI initiatives within the Division of Psychiatry and at WUSM .

Required {Qualifications}

• Highschool diploma or equal highschool certification.
• Registered or Licensed Medical Assistant with six months of associated work expertise (examples of associated fields embody army medic, emergency medical technicians, Nurse’s Aide, bodily remedy and nurse technicians, and licensed athletic trainers). Medical Assistant credentials should be obtained from in-person proctored exams from the next certifying our bodies: NHA, AAMA or AMT. In-person proctored credentials from different certifying our bodies could also be accepted upon approval from Human Assets. Substitutions embody:
  • Graduate of an accredited nursing program (resembling RN/LPN), or comparable allied well being coaching program with a minimal of 1 12 months of related expertise.
  • Capacity to point out proof of a Medical Assistant certification/registration with profitable completion of certification examination (on-line proctored exams aren’t enough to satisfy the credential requirement) inside six months of rent date (or inside a shorter timeframe if famous by hiring supervisor).
• Fundamental Life Help certification (On-line Fundamental Life Help certifications, these and not using a expertise evaluation part, aren’t enough to satisfy the Fundamental Life Help necessities).

Grade
C06-H

Wage Vary
$17.00 – $24.66 / Hourly

The wage vary displays base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade throughout the College. Particular person charges throughout the vary will likely be decided by elements together with one’s {qualifications} and efficiency, fairness with others within the division, market charges for positions throughout the identical grade and division funds.

Questions

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Lodging

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Pre-Employment Screening
All exterior candidates receiving a suggestion for employment will likely be required to undergo pre-employment screening for this place. The screenings will embody prison background test and, as relevant for the place, different background checks, drug display screen, an employment and schooling or licensure/certification verification, bodily examination, sure vaccinations and/or governmental registry checks. All affords are contingent upon profitable completion of required screening.

Advantages Assertion

Private

• As much as 22 days of trip, 10 acknowledged holidays, and sick time.

• Aggressive medical insurance packages with precedence appointments and decrease copays/coinsurance.

• Wish to Reside Close to Your Work and/or enhance your commute? Benefit from our free Metro transit U-Move for eligible staff. We additionally provide a forgivable residence mortgage of as much as $12,500 for closing prices and a down fee for houses in eligible neighborhoods.

• WashU offers eligible staff with an outlined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Financial savings Plan, which mixes worker contributions and college contributions beginning at 7%.

Wellness

• Wellness challenges, annual well being screenings, psychological well being sources, mindfulness applications and programs, worker help program (EAP), monetary sources, entry to dietitians, and extra!

Household

• We provide 4 weeks of caregiver go away to bond together with your new youngster. Household care sources are additionally obtainable to your continued childcare wants. Want grownup care? We’ve bought you coated.

• WashU covers the price of tuition for you and your loved ones, together with dependent undergraduate-level school tuition as much as 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.

For insurance policies, detailed advantages, and eligibility, please go to: https://hr.wustl.edu/advantages/

EEO/AA Assertion
Washington College in St. Louis is dedicated to the rules and practices of equal employment alternative and particularly encourages purposes by these from underrepresented teams. It’s the College’s coverage to supply equal alternative and entry to individuals in all job titles with out regard to race, ethnicity, coloration, nationwide origin, age, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, gender id or expression, incapacity, protected veteran standing, or genetic data.

Variety Assertion
Washington College is devoted to constructing a various group of people who’re dedicated to contributing to an inclusive atmosphere – fostering respect for all and welcoming people from various backgrounds, experiences and views. People with a dedication to those values are inspired to use.