Medical Assistant

Upstate; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Upstate is seeking Medical Assistants to provide clinical, laboratory, and clerical support across inpatient care areas, ambulatory services, outpatient clinics, and laboratories. You will assist physicians and other hospital personnel in delivering patient care, preparing patients for procedures, and recording vital data.

Responsibilities include performing routine lab procedures such as phlebotomy, specimen collection, and processing, as well as clerical tasks like greeting patients, answering

Qualifications

• One year of full-time clinical and clerical health care experience.
• Completion of a medical assistant program from a college/university/technical school.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and hospital staff in delivering patient care and examinations.
• Perform phlebotomy and routine specimen collection and processing.
• Greet patients, schedule appointments, and collect and enter data.

Skills

Clinical support

Clerical duties

Education

Medical assistant program

Job description

Job Summary:

Medical Assistants perform clinical, laboratory, and clerical support activities in inpatient care areas of the hospital, hospital ambulatory services, outpatient clinics, and laboratories. Incumbents assist physicians or other hospital/medical personnel in providing patient care, preparing patients for procedures and examinations, recording vital patient data, and performing standardized routine laboratory procedures such as phlebotomy, patient specimen collection, and specimen processing. Incumbents also perform routine clerical activities such as greeting and directing patients, accessioning tests, producing reports, answering telephones, gathering and entering data, and scheduling appointments

Minimum Qualifications:

For consideration for this title, you must meet the following minimum qualifications:

Either 1: One year of full-time experience performing clinical and clerical support activities in a health care setting.

Or 2: completion of a college, university, technical school or vocational school medical assistant program.

Work Days:

Schedule based on a 40 hour work week. Monday-Friday, Day shift. Located at the Community Campus.

Message to Applicants:

The NYS Department of Civil Service has expanded the NY HELPS Program. During this program, the NYS Civil Service Exam requirements are suspended for the Medical Assistant title.

Salary: $42,209 + This title earns a geographical payment of $4,000 annually.

Recruitment Office:

Human Resources

Executive Order:

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at [phone] or via email at [e-mail].