Medical Assistant, St. Luke's Health System - Boise, ID
The Medical Assistant is responsible for providing technical/clinical/clerical support to provider and/or physician.
Minimum Qualifications
The Medical Assistant is responsible for providing technical/clinical/clerical support to provider and/or physician.
Minimum Qualifications
- Graduation from a School of Technology with current Medical Assistant certificate or equivalent experience.
- Ability and willingness to demonstrate and maintain competency as required for job title and the unit/area(s) of assignment.
- Knowledge and understanding of the triage process, and demonstrate competency with basic medical procedures.
- Excellent communication skills to include oral and written comprehension/expression.
- Ability and willingness to work with patients' growth and development needs particularly related to the age of patients in the unit/area(s) of assignment.
- Ability to manage a chaotic work environment related to changing patient needs, including work with patients with behavioral and/or developmental medical conditions.
- Ability and willingness to exhibit behaviors consistent with standards for performance improvement and organizational values (e.g., efficiency &; financial responsibility, safety, partnership &; service, teamwork, compassion, integrity, and trust &; respect).
- Ability and willingness to exhibit behaviors consistent with principles for service excellence.
Physical Requirements
- Frequent sitting, bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting/turning from waist.
- Senses needed to perform the essential functions of the position.
- Frequent need to hear and talk in quiet/noisy surroundings and talk/hear with over the telephone.
- Vision for near/far acuity, depth perception, and color vision.
- Touch for feeling (size, shape, temperature, and texture by finger receptors).
- Smell to determine hot/burning equipment.
