Medical Assistant (MA) Supervisor - Primary Care - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
Lebanon, NH
About the Job
Overview:
Supervises and coordinates activities of a group of clinical and/or clerical support staff. Provides administrative support in planning and maintaining day-to-day activities and projects.
*Must be certified with the AAMA or Registered with the AMT to be considered.
Responsibilities:- Monitors patient flow to ensure efficient use of schedules and rooming of patients.
- Writes annual performance appraisals and conducts appraisal meetings.
- Ensures adherence to all standards, procedures, and protocols.
- Encourages, supports, and provides educational opportunities for employees’ development.
- Coordinates the daily operations of the practice.
- Ensures staffing, space, furniture, and equipment/supply needs of the office are met.
- Analyzes work flows to ensure maximum staff utilization. Works to create a positive and harmonious working environment.
- Coordinates employee schedules and assignments and approves employee time off requests.
- Performs service recovery to promote patient and employee retention.
- Develops, maintains, and revises office procedures and systems in order to ensure efficient, effective operations.
- Functions as a resource to management in designing and implementing workflow changes that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
- Acts as preceptor for new employees.
- Facilitates orientation and training for new employees. Monitors completion of orientation checklist and completes computer access requests.
- Coordinates and directs special quality improvement pilots and projects involving the clinical support staff.
- Serves as liaison with other persons/departments concerning services offered by the office.
- May be required to travel to multiple sites.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.
- Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant Program with 3 years of clinical experience required.
- Experience coordinating activities for a group preferred.
- Ability to effectively delegate and hold staff accountable for responsibilities.
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills required.
- Ability to relate sensitively to people, maintain confidentiality, multi-task, and work well under pressure.
- Current BLS certification required.
- American Association Medical Assistants (AAMA) Certified, American Medical Technologists (AMT) Registered OR Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) plus 2,000-hour Dartmouth-Hitchcock Workforce Readiness Institute (D-H WRI) registered apprenticeship program – CCMA designation.
Source : Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health