Medical Assistant FT
Medical Assistant FT
Portland, Oregon
Overview
When you join USPI, you’re joining a caring, compassionate team who provides excellence in patient care across all of our facilities. As part of our staff, you’ll work with a high level of professionalism and commitment to our patients by providing safe, efficient patient care throughout their health experience. We follow the highest standard for nursing excellence, quality patient care, and innovation.
- Job Type: Full-Time/Regular
Success Profile
What makes a successful Medical Assistant FT at our location? Check out the traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.
- Team player
- Multi-Tasker
- Positive
- Compassionate
- Analytical
- Detail-Oriented
Culture
Our mission is to treat each and every one of our patients, and their families, as if they were our own family member. Each patient, each family, each and every time.
- Working with compassion and respect for others and each other, supporting our communities and advocating for our patients
- Acting with integrity and the highest ethical standards – always
- Delivering results through accountability and transparency
- Embracing inclusiveness for all people in our workplace and in the communities we serve
Benefits
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Healthcare
Medical, dental, vision, healthcare/dependent FSA, life and disability insurance
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401(k) Retirement Plans
Secure your future with plans that also include employer discretionary match
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Tuition Reimbursement
Up to $1,500 maximum reimbursement per year
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Paid Time Off
Up to 15 PTO days per year and 6 paid holidays
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Work/Life Balance
Benefits such as paid holidays and vacation help you keep a healthy work-life balance
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Compensation
Competitive salaries
Responsibilities
East Portland Surgery Center has an immediate need for a full time Medical Assistant!
Job Summary: The Medical Assistant is responsible for greeting patients and delivering exceptional customer service assistance. This entails answering calls and fielding them accordingly, addressing patient questions and needs, and providing an overall welcoming environment. This person also performs ad hoc administrative duties as needed.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Managing procedure room(s) to ensure the rooms are prepped and ready for patients, including room turnovers, stocking supplies, cleaning, etc.
- Managing patient flow to/from procedure room(s), and assists with patient positioning for procedures
- Demonstrates the primary goal of efficiency, while providing services that exceed customer expectations, and improving clinical and financial operations
- Assists with patient care within the MA scope of practice
- Pulls case materials and stages in appropriate areas
- Understands principles of aseptic sterile technique and their implementation
- Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards
- Ability to adapt to change quickly
Who We Are
At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.
USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.
For more information about USPI, check out our website
Required Skills:
- Completion of an accredited Medical Assisting Program
- Certification as a Medical Assistant
- One (1) year previous clinical experience
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Self-motivated, flexible, and able to multi-task and prioritize in a fast paced environment, with the ability to problem solve with minimal direction or guidance
- Proven history as a team player
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in providing exceptional customer service to patients, physicians, and team
- Full range of physical mobility (position requires sustained standing, stooping, lifting as much as 75 lbs., carrying, repetitive motions, reading, sitting, etc.)
- Prefer experience with Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.)
- Prefer experience with medical software programs such as Advantx, Amkai, or Epic
- Efficient use of resources
- Willingness to maintain a clean, organized environment
- Consistent, reliable attendance
- Reliable means of transportation
- May provide help to other Portland area USPI facilities if required.
USPI complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.
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