Medical Assistant Lead, Pediatrics, Multi-Site; San Rafael​/Novato​/Petaluma

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Prima Medical Foundation dba Marin Health Medical Network

8 Hour (days) (United States of America)

40

The Medical Assistant Lead is a critical part of the leadership team for the practice and coordinates with the Lead Front Office Coordinator, Specialty Leads (if any), and the Practice Leader to ensure the smooth running of the practice. The primary purpose of having a Lead Medical Assistant is to provide leadership as well as training within MA scope to the medical assisting team and coordinate the team to better serve both physicians and patients.

$29.49 - $34.33 - $40.05

• The Lead Medical Assistant will be responsible for the direct day‑to‑day supervision of the other members of the medical assisting team, including but not limited to training, technology, medication, assignments, flow issues, communications, cleaning, stocking, ordering, emergency kits, hiring/disciplinary, triage coordination, backup support, PTO and timecards, and all other duties as required or assigned.
• Training:
  The Lead MA is well‑versed in medical assisting practice and is able to train and teach new skills to new or less experienced medical assistants. This includes new and annual competency sign‑offs in collaboration with the Clinical Operations Team.
• The Lead MA is great with computers and technology and learns new software well. The Lead MA will become an APeX super user and be able to assist clinicians and other MAs in better‑utilizing APeX.
• The Lead MA keeps abreast of new medications and supervises the MA who coordinates our medication prescription refill program.
• The Lead MA manages the MA to Physician assignments and changes the utilization of staff as needed to ensure appropriate coverage for all physicians in the office.
• The Lead MA manages “Flow issues” to solve patient and clinician log jams that sometimes occur. The Lead MA will work with the Practice Leader and the front desk to lessen the frequency of these problems.
• The Lead MA assists the Lead Front Office Coordinator in managing communications between the front and back office, with an emphasis in enhancing and improving communication as needed.
• The Lead MA will develop a schedule for cleaning and stocking the rooms on a regular basis. The Lead MA will assign specific MAs to the rooms and then periodically check the work of each MA. Supervision of medical assisting side work. The Lead MA with the clinician group and Practice Leader will develop a list of Medical Assisting side work that needs to be completed.
  
  This list will be checked on a weekly basis to ensure that the back office stays neat, tidy, and well‑organized.
• The Lead MA will work with the Practice Leader and clinicians in order to determine the equipment and supplies that should be in each room and will develop a standard positioning for each item in the room thereby allowing for the rooms to be consistently set up.
• The Lead MA…