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Lead Medical Assistant
Fairview Health Services • Oakdale, MN 55128 • Posted 30+ days ago
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The Lead Medical Assistant at Fairview Oakdale Clinic in Oakdale, MN, serves as a key resource for communication, coordination, training, and department assimilation. This role is crucial for problem resolution, team motivation, and ensuring patient needs are met through daily activity coordination, inventory management, and staff orientation. The position also involves project work, team environment promotion, and safety and quality control maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the 'go to' person for communication, coordination, training, and department assimilation.
- Ensures patient needs are met through daily activity coordination.
- Manages inventory of supplies by serving as liaison to supply chain.
- Coordinates staff orientation and training, including new and existing staff education and performance management.
- Participates in interview process and assists with testing for competency.
- Maintains confidentiality.
- Promotes a collaborative and helpful team environment.
- Serves as a clinic representative at meetings and attends clinic meetings.
- Leads by example and provides motivation and encouragement to employees.
- Serves as a mentor within the department.
- Supports organizational initiatives and maintains a safe work environment.
- Ensures safety policies and practices are maintained, including equipment quality control.
Qualifications
Required
- Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant Program or LPN
- AHA BLS certification
Preferred
- 2-3 years of experience in functional area
About Fairview Health Services
Fairview Health Services is a nonprofit health care system with a large workforce providing medical services through thousands of aligned physicians.
Full Job Description
**Overview**
M Health Fairview has an immediate opening for a Lead Medical Assistant at the Oakdale Clinic located in Oakdale, MN. Join M Health Fairview, the largest healthcare system in the state! The M Health FV Oakdale Clinic is a growing and collaborative clinic. Our clinic hours are 7AM to 6PM Monday - Thursday and 7AM - 5PM on Fridays, so no evenings, weekends, or holidays! This provides an excellent work life balance!
This position is eligible for a $4000 Sign On Bonus!
This is a 1.0 FTE (80 hours per two week pay period) opening.
M Health Fairview offers a competitive benefits package including medical/dental, 401k/403b with employer match, tuition reimbursement, and PTO! For details, please visit our benefits page by clicking here! (https://www.fairview.org/cbenefits)
**Responsibilities Job Description**
Job Summary:
The working lead serves as the "go to" person to assist with communication, coordinates and provides training, orientation, and department assimilation. Encourages and motivates team for immediate problem resolution, provides a consistent presence. Anticipates, identifies, and reports departmental areas of concern to clinic supervisor. Fosters and promotes a collaborative and helpful team environment. Completes complex and/or high-level project work but is not a substitute for team member thinking and initiative.
Job Expectations:
Coordinates daily activities of work team to ensure patient needs are met.
+ Assists with arranging immediate coverage for sick calls and assigns breaks.
+ Monitors daily work assignments and adjusts in assignments to meet department requirements.
+ Refers standards of practice issues to supervisor for resolution.
+ Responds to and helps resolve operational issues, including provider issues
+ Ensures adequate inventory of supplies is maintained by serving as liaison to supply chain.
Coordinates staff orientation and training. Provide education training and orientation to new and existing staff
+ Participates in interview process.
+ Provides observations and assists with testing for competency regarding performance, conduct and behavior for performance management.
+ Maintains confidentiality
Promotes team environment within department, other site departments, and other clinics.
+ Serves as a clinic representative at peer group or other meetings as assigned.
+ Attends clinic meetings and communicates appropriate information to others.
+ Leads by example
+ Problem solving and project work.
+ Provides motivation and encouragement to employees.
+ Serves as mentor within the dept
+ Supports organizational initiatives
Supports a safe work environment.
+ Ensures safety policies and practice are maintained.
+ May serve as Infection Control or Safety Liaison.
+ Ensures equipment is in working order and quality control logs are completed as needed.
+ May assist in patient feedback or concerns by investigation of issues
**Qualifications**
Required
Education
+ Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant Program or LPN
Experience
License/Certification/Registration
+ AHA BLS
Preferred
Experience
+ 2-3 years of experience in functional area is preferred
**EEO Statement**
EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status
M Health Fairview has an immediate opening for a Lead Medical Assistant at the Oakdale Clinic located in Oakdale, MN. Join M Health Fairview, the largest healthcare system in the state! The M Health FV Oakdale Clinic is a growing and collaborative clinic. Our clinic hours are 7AM to 6PM Monday - Thursday and 7AM - 5PM on Fridays, so no evenings, weekends, or holidays! This provides an excellent work life balance!
This position is eligible for a $4000 Sign On Bonus!
This is a 1.0 FTE (80 hours per two week pay period) opening.
M Health Fairview offers a competitive benefits package including medical/dental, 401k/403b with employer match, tuition reimbursement, and PTO! For details, please visit our benefits page by clicking here! (https://www.fairview.org/cbenefits)
**Responsibilities Job Description**
Job Summary:
The working lead serves as the "go to" person to assist with communication, coordinates and provides training, orientation, and department assimilation. Encourages and motivates team for immediate problem resolution, provides a consistent presence. Anticipates, identifies, and reports departmental areas of concern to clinic supervisor. Fosters and promotes a collaborative and helpful team environment. Completes complex and/or high-level project work but is not a substitute for team member thinking and initiative.
Job Expectations:
Coordinates daily activities of work team to ensure patient needs are met.
+ Assists with arranging immediate coverage for sick calls and assigns breaks.
+ Monitors daily work assignments and adjusts in assignments to meet department requirements.
+ Refers standards of practice issues to supervisor for resolution.
+ Responds to and helps resolve operational issues, including provider issues
+ Ensures adequate inventory of supplies is maintained by serving as liaison to supply chain.
Coordinates staff orientation and training. Provide education training and orientation to new and existing staff
+ Participates in interview process.
+ Provides observations and assists with testing for competency regarding performance, conduct and behavior for performance management.
+ Maintains confidentiality
Promotes team environment within department, other site departments, and other clinics.
+ Serves as a clinic representative at peer group or other meetings as assigned.
+ Attends clinic meetings and communicates appropriate information to others.
+ Leads by example
+ Problem solving and project work.
+ Provides motivation and encouragement to employees.
+ Serves as mentor within the dept
+ Supports organizational initiatives
Supports a safe work environment.
+ Ensures safety policies and practice are maintained.
+ May serve as Infection Control or Safety Liaison.
+ Ensures equipment is in working order and quality control logs are completed as needed.
+ May assist in patient feedback or concerns by investigation of issues
**Qualifications**
Required
Education
+ Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant Program or LPN
Experience
License/Certification/Registration
+ AHA BLS
Preferred
Experience
+ 2-3 years of experience in functional area is preferred
**EEO Statement**
EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status
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