Medical Assistant 1 - Orthopaedics

University of Miami; Florida; On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Miami Health System is seeking a compassionate healthcare professional to support patient care across clinical settings. The role emphasizes compassionate presence, accurate documentation, and collaborative teamwork to ensure high-quality patient experiences.

Responsibilities include preparing examination rooms, assisting with procedures, collecting vital signs, and maintaining patient records, all while upholding HIPAA and professional standards.

Qualifications

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Supports patient’s emotional needs and respects spiritual beliefs.
• Establishes trusting patient relationships and maintains a conducive healing climate.
• Prioritizes tasks, communicates clearly with patients, families, and team.
• Contributes to unit/clinic programs and team morale, and uses available technology for care coordination.
• Learns and maintains knowledge to reflect current clinical practice and professional development.
• Ensures compliance with HIPAA and regulatory guidelines.
• Assists providers with examinations and prepares rooms with supplies and equipment.
• Prepares patients for physician care and documents procedures in medical records.
• Maintains accuracy of patient records, orders supplies, and supports administrative duties.
• Adheres to ethical standards and protects patient privacy.

Skills

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent/relevant experience, certification or license

Job description

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Utilizes creative methods to support patient’s individual needs and respect patient’s spiritual beliefs, faith, and practices.
• Establishes a trusting relationship by creating and maintaining a conducive climate for healing by being authentically present to the patient and family, identifying and managing discomforts, providing emotional support.
• Prioritizes and integrates multiple requests and work expectations by performing tasks appropriately, in a timely manner safely and professionally. Communicates clearly and in a timely manner to patient and family, as well as the appropriate team members. Seeks assistance when needed.
• Contributes to team building by participating in unit/clinic programs and meetings. Commits to positive morale, using constructive and effective conflict resolution skills. Learns and utilizes available technology resources for communication, documentation, and locating pertinent information regarding clinical situations, diagnosis, and treatments.
• Attains educational knowledge and competencies that reflects current clinical practice skills. Demonstrates commitment to lifelong learning and is responsible for his/her own professional development and maintenance of knowledge regarding the patient population and assignments.
• Ensures compliance with all State and Federal regulatory guidelines to include Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Performs professionally within their clinical scope of practice skills utilizing State, Federal, and University of Miami’s standards, guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations. Incorporates protocols and standards of care into daily practice.
• Accepts and provides focused constructive feedback and guidance with loving kindness in a manner that provides growth and maintains self-esteem.
• Abides by the standards for ethical behavior, therapeutic communication and protecting the privacy of patient information.
• Assists providers with physical examinations by preparing treatment/exam room with proper supplies, instruments, and materials, as directed.
• Understands the importance of medical and surgical asepsis. Prepares patients for physician’s care with basic instruction and information regarding examination procedures.
• Perform vital signs, EKG, phlebotomy, and document in patient’s medical record.
• Cleans and/or sterilizes medical instruments while observing principles of sterile technique. Schedules patients for tests and completes required forms for laboratory work.
• Maintains accurate and complete patient records and documentation. Orders, stocks, and inventories supplies, and assists in performing clerical duties.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets. This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent/relevant experience, certification or licenseCertification and Licensing: Refer to department description for applicable certification requirementsExperience: No previous experience requiredKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based on departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job.

DEPARTMENT ADDENDUM

Department Specific Functions

• May require travel to multiple clinic sites throughout the week.
• Maintains high level of customer service. Excellent patient relations are an essential component of this position.
• Provides clinical support to physicians and other medical providers. Assists with minor procedures as needed. Also assists with medication, medical supplies and equipment as needed.
• Removes sutures/staples, assists in wound care under the direct supervision of a physician.
• Assesses, applies, and removes casts, splints, and other orthopaedic devices if necessary.
• Coordinates patient flow in/out of the pod with the goal of and emphasis on minimizing waiting time for the patients.
• Prepares patient (provides gowns, assists patient), area, and medications for procedures.
• Maintains exam rooms and cast room fully stocked and ensures that rooms are cleaned after each patient. Uses, maintains and cleans medical equipment.
• Obtains authorizations for special procedures, etc. from insurance companies. Labels, processes and ships aspirations and needle biopsies.
• Assists physician in obtaining pertinent medical information from the patient and is always readily available to the physician throughout the examination to facilitate the management of patient care.
• Handles all medical emergencies in a timely and competent manner always putting patients’ safety first.
• Receives and records requests from patients by telephone (medication refills, referral requests, lab results, medical advice, etc.).
• Other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor.

Department Specific Qualifications

Education: Type HereCertification and Licensing: Approved MA Certifications: CMA- Certified Medical Assistant – American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) RMA- Registered Medical Assistant – American Medical Technologists (AMT) CCMA- Certified Clinical Medical Assistant – National Healthcare Association (NHA) NCMA – National Certified Medical Assistant (NHA – NCCT) NRCMA – Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant (NAHP) American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providersExperience: Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full timeEmployee Type: StaffThe mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.