Senior Medical Assistant / Surgery Scheduler - Kingwood - Humble, Texas - Texas Oncology

Texas Oncology is looking for a SeniorMedical Assistant / Sugery Schedulerto join our team!  This position will support Humble, Texas location.   This is a full-time Monday-Friday 8:30a-5p position with no weekends, call, or major holidays. Texas Oncology is the largest community oncology provider in the country and has approximately 600+ providers in 220+ sites across Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.  Our founders pioneered community-based cancer care because they believed in making the best available cancer care accessible to all communities, allowing people to fight cancer at home with the critical support of family and friends nearby. Our mission is still the same today—at Texas Oncology, we use leading-edge technology and research to deliver high-quality, high-touch, evidence-based cancer care to help our patients achieve “More breakthroughs. More victories.” ® in their fight against cancer.  Today, Texas Oncology treats half of all Texans diagnosed with cancer on an annual basis. 

Why work for us?  

Come join our team that is responsible for helping lead Texas Oncology in treating more patient diagnosed with cancer than any other provider in Texas. 

Humble is just north of Houston with riding and biking trails and lakes throughout the neighborhoods, highly-rated public schools, shopping and dining. Our management team values an approach of teamwork and collaboration to provide high-quality, individualized care for each patient we serve.

We offer our employees a competitive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-term and Long-term disability coverage, a generous PTO program, a 401k plan that comes with a company match, a Wellness program that rewards you practicing a healthy lifestyle, and lots of other great perks such as Tuition Reimbursement, an Employee Assistance program and discounts on some of your favorite retailers.  

What does the Senior Medical Assistant/ Surgery Scheduler do? 

 Under direct supervision, the Medical Assistant assists physicians and clinicians with patient care duties in a clinical environment. Promotes efficient patient flow and patient care, i.e. exams, and procedures. Performs clinic support tasks including miscellaneous clerical tasks, answering phones, and maintaining physicians schedule. Supports and adheres to the US Oncology Compliance Program, to include the Code of Ethics and Business Standards. 

The essential duties and responsibilities: 

• Prepares correspondence, memos, forms and other typing as requested by supervisor. 
• May provide guidance and daily work direction to junior level staff. 

• Assists with delegated patient education including but not limited to distributing education literature, etc.   
• Obtains blood specimens from peripheral sites as needed and in accordance with OSHA and universal precautions. 
• Administers subcutaneous and intramuscular injections, including but not limited to, hormones and biological growth factors. 
• Maintains all exam/treatment room disinfection protocols.    
• Processes instruments and equipment as needed. 

• Answers patient telephone calls for referral to physician or nurse/pharmacist.  
• Phones in prescriptions and makes other patient calls as directed by physicians and RN.  
• Schedules patient tests, procedures and hospital admissions and schedules appointments to follow-up on receipt of test results, as applicable. 
• Assists with select pre-authorizations and pre-certifications as needed. Informs physician of patient reschedules and no shows. 
• Obtains new patient records and previous test results, x-rays, scans, etc.   

• Performs other administrative duties, i.e. typing, filing faxing reception, etc, as requested by supervisor or physician. 
• Maintains indigent drug program and sample drug program as assigned.   

The ideal candidate will have the following background and experience: 

• High school graduate or equivalent.   
• Certificate of graduation from an accredited program for Medical Assistants strongly preferred.
• Experience with surgery scheduling is strongly preferred.
• Willing to consider entry to senior candidates.  

• Minimum five (5) years experience as a medical assistant or nursing assistant in a hospital or clinic setting.  
• Phlebotomy experience preferred.   
• Current CPR certification required.  
• Some state regulations may require specific certifications in order to work as a Medical Assistant. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time. Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 40 lbs. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medical preparations and other conditions common to an oncology/hematology clinic environment may occur.