Medical Assistant – Orthopedic office
*temp to hire
Hiring 2!
Location: Ridgewood, New Jersey
- May require travel to Mahwah office once a month, MAs rotate each week for a scheduled shift.
- Typically only once a month but may be as many as 4-5 times a month.
Schedule: Full time, 36-40 hours/week M-F
- shifts vary and can start from 8-10am or noon, and end 5-7pm
- Wednesdays they are open until 7pm, possible to be there until 7:30-8pm
- Flexibility with schedule is required
Pay: $24 – $26/hour temp
Qualifications:
- Prior ortho experience required to be considered
- Casting, sutures/removal, splinting, and injections.
- National Certification/registration not a requirement temp, but preferred
- Would need to be certified before being converted perm
- If nationally certified, they require proof of certification
- Personality is going to be a factor as well, looking for someone who is polished, educated, and presents confidently.
- BLS/CPR required
- 1+ years in healthcare, preferably as a medical assistant
- Tech savvy – iPads are used
- EMR experience preferred
- They use Mod Med (Modernized Medicine) and can train. Very easy to use if candidates have prior EMR experience. EPIC or Athena especially.
- Phlebotomy a plus
- Ultrasound experience a plus
- High school or equivalent
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Prepare patients for their examination, escort them to the exam room and be present, as necessary, for the examination/treatment to assist the physician in treatment procedures
- Be the liaison with the orthopedist in informing reception of any appointments that need to be scheduled to facilitate smooth flow of operations
- Record medical histories and vital signs of patients
- Sterilize equipment before and after treatment and properly dispose used containers and items to avoid infection
- Clean and sterilize rooms and prepare them for the treatment of patients
- Create and fill patients’ chart with relevant and current information about their health condition, and update chart with changes and progress in patients’ health
- Maintain inventory for medications, and clinical supplies as well as BREG
- Application of braces/splints
- Occasional finger puncture for hemoglobin
- Possible venipuncture for PRP injection
- Removal of sutures/staples
- Removal of casts/splints
- Set up and stocking exam rooms
- When necessary, process prescriptions to be filled at the patient’s preferred pharmacy.
Administrative tasks:
- The following are administrative tasks to be completed on the days the CMA is assigned as administrative
- Chart preparation for following day
- Confirm results of patients’ tests, such as imaging results and other lab results as appropriate
- Confirm that the physician is an existing patient, new patient to physician or new to practice, based on patient history
- Work on tasks/orders sent by providers such as:
- Refills
- Home Care
- Imaging
- Answer incoming telephone calls from physicians and patients as well as entertain inquiries, and facilitate correspondence with regards to their treatment in the office
- Maintain a level of communication with the office PA/Clinical Lead and escalate issues as necessary to them
- Maintain inventory – including but not limited to BREG
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