Job opening: Medical Support Assistant
Salary: $39 688 - 63 914 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Jul 05 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
These positions are located in Yosemite National Park, in the Yosemite Medical Clinic.
Open to the first 101 applicants or until 07/18/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration.
Duties
Performing receptionist duties, customer service and other duties assigned for the proper and timely treatment of patients and maintains appointment schedule for the clinic.
Acts as liaison between patients and the health care providers and coordinates all of the administrative information between the professional staff and the patient.
Takes and records vital signs and medical histories, prepare patients for examination, draw blood, and administer medications as directed by health care provider.
Responsible for fee/payment collection and medical coding and maintaining compliance with Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its implementing regulations.
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
One of the positions in this announcement is a career-seasonal position. Career-Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. If you accept the career-seasonal position associated with this announcement, you will work at least 21 pay periods and up to 25 pay periods (out of 26). You will be in a non-pay status for the remainder of the year. This non-pay occurs approximately from December 15th through December 28th. Please indicate your interest in accepting a career-seasonal position during the questionnaire portion of the application process.
Qualifications
All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/18/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.
Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience.
GS-5:
To qualify for this position at the GS-05 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:
EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-04 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: performing administrative, technical, and clinical (clerical) patient care duties, such as patient visit intake, scheduling appointments, taking patients' vital signs, and communicating clinical staff instructions to the patient. You must include hours per week worked.
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EDUCATION: Successful completion of at least 4 years of education above high school. You must include transcripts.
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Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above.
GS-6:
To qualify for this position at the GS-06 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:
EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: providing the full range of administrative, technical, and clinical (clerical) duties, such as facilitating secure messaging with the patient and provider and notifying patients of normal lab results, entering appropriate information into the electronic record, making recommendations for improved clinic operations, taking patients' vital signs and specimens, and maintaining medical records information. You must include hours per week worked.
GS-7:
To qualify for this position at the GS-07 grade level, you must possess the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement:
EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: performing administrative, technical, and clinical (clerical) duties, such as performing record keeping duties, coding medical information for billing, and resolving complex problems to ensure patient services are met, acting as a liaison between patients and the primary professional medical care provider, and performing procedures within the scope of practice to include sterile dressing application, radiology, applying orthopedic splits, and initiating intravenous (IVs). You must include hours per week worked.
Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an
accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.
If you are using
education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
Contacts
- Address Yosemite National Park
5037 Stroming Road
Mariposa, CA 95338
US
- Name: Alexander Lehinger
- Phone: 2062204124
- Email: [email protected]
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