Physician Office Assistant

Responsible for providing key support to Physicians, taking specific direction from supervisors on required tasks to best assist them in their critical role providing the highest level of Physician quality care for all patients.

• Helps establish and implement cost effective, results based, and professionally managed programs and innovative initiatives for the Clinic under direct supervision.

• Contributes to less complex components of projects, programs, or processes for the Clinic.

• Performs simple trend analysis to support continuous improvement efforts for the organization's Clinic strategy.

• Performs administrative as well as clinical tasks, including maintaining patient records, preparing patients and rooms for examination, assisting physicians with exams, and administering injections to ensure patients' welfare and concerns are the highest priority.

• Coaches more junior colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities.

• Understands and applies the organization's mission, vision, and core values of improving health and promoting well-being in day-to-day interactions with the team.

• High School Diploma required.

• Up to one (1) year of experience preferred.

• Basic awareness of problem solving and decision making skills.

• Basic awareness of digital literacy skills.

• Basic knowledge of medical terminology.

• Ability to deal tactfully with customers and the community.

• Ability to handle sensitive information ethically and responsibly.

• Ability to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

• Ability to function in a clinical setting with diverse cultural dynamics of clinical staff and patients.

• Medical Assistant certification from an accredited program required.