MEDICAL ASSISTANT

Responsibilities

Black Bear Lodge

 Medical Assistant-Scheduler

 Foundations Recovery Network (FRN) is the premier provider of integrated treatment for co-occurring addiction and mental health concerns, offering residential and outpatient services nationwide.  Located in the serene forest foothills of northern Georgia, Black Bear Lodge is a 144- bed place of solace and healing for those individuals suffering from addiction and mental health issues. We are a residential treatment center offering a comprehensive, integrated program that addresses the needs of the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our system of care is personalized, evidence-based, and research-proven. Patients can self-reflect and find strength for life change amid the beauty of the expansive sky and the natural tranquility that characterizes our location.

                                Benefits for A Medical Assistant include:

• Caring, challenging, and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation 
• Great Multi-disciplinary Team
• Career Development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries

What do our currrent employees Like about working at Black Bear?

• Opportunity for growth and development
• Doing work that is purposeful
• Love what we do here for patients
• Feels like being a part of a family
• No two days are ever the same
• Challenging environment with great personal reward

Qualifications

Position Summary

The Medical Assistant will be responsible to perform routine administrative and clinical tasks to facilitate the physicians and other health practitioners work flow in the assessment and residential setting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Keep track of daily intakes and adding to patient roster -monitoring patients every day to ensure they are seen within standard of care. 
• Daily schedules on excel sheet 
• This requires watching emails for last minute intakes, assessment status, discharges, patient provider requests, PHP admissions, PHP discharges and routine appointments.
• Knowing provider capabilities- approximate time each provider takes with each type of visit. 
• Create psychiatrist schedule- monitoring the psych consult log, creating his/her schedule, corresponding with provider often about schedule 
• Helping providers each day with any last-minute schedule changes including cancellations and late additions.
• Attend treatment team via phone every morning to help answer any questions.
• Communication with nurses on changes for providers
• Create and maintain on call/ monthly provider schedule
• Assisting with communication with Medical Director and the providers 
• Assisting with Performance Improvement chart audits - pick the charts for providers, create appropriate paperwork, fill in the sheet when completed by providers and run the data. 
• Help manage provider charge sheets for Business office 
• Managing provider availability, off days, holidays and PTO 

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

•  Ability to inspire client confidence in the FRN Staff and the FRN Model of Treatment.
• Ability to consistently demonstrate through conduct and communications the stability required to effectively assist patients and their family members through the FRN Model of Treatment.Ability to build relationships with diverse individuals and groups.
• Understands need for and maintains appropriate confidentiality at all times when interacting with patients, residents, families, visitors, referral sources and all other contacts.Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle multiple competing tasks and demands.
• Must have general knowledge of a variety of computer software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.
• Education and Experience

• High School diploma or GED required. Bachelors degree of Certified Medical Assistant Certificate preferred.
• Minimum of two years’ experience in a medical assistant or similar role in a healthcare facility.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

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