Medical Assistant at YRCI
Reston, VA 20190
About the Job
YRCI is seeking full-time Medical Assistant to support our Human Resources (HR) Remote Operations Center (HRROC), located in Reston, VA. YRCI’s HRROC is a Shared Service Center that supports multiple Federal agencies and offers a friendly, collaborative team environment with access to training from industry experts!
The work is performed in Human Capital’s Medical Services unit where medical documents are seen and maintained. The work involves a variety of administrative and clerical duties involving different, unrelated processes and methods. Complexity arises from the frequently changing priorities, or situations, requiring shifting rapidly from one duty to another. Duties are as follows:
- Serve as a support to support the Medical Service Branch by performing a wide range of clerical and administrative support functions for the entire unit.
- Work directly with the lead nurse, Medical Officer, as well as other members of the medical staff.
- Schedule pre-employment physicals, periodic exams, motor vehicle license exams, medical consultations, hearing, vision, and spirometry screenings; and works closely with Human Capital Recruiters for the purpose of scheduling pre-employment physicals, providing an open line of communication through the entire medical process while keeping abreast the medical status of the candidates.
- Locate facilities for pre-employment physicals and drug screens; serve as liaison for offsite pre-employment physicals and drug screens; assist the onboarding process by assisting the drug coordinator in coordinating drug screenings.
- Ensure that change of custody forms are completed properly; communicates with the laboratory concerning forms, and relays messages to the drug coordinator concerning results.
- Assist with medical surveillance programs; assist employees with the completion of the medical questionnaires, scheduling testing appointments, and composing correspondences in reference to the specific surveillance.
- Maintain knowledge of conferences, appointments, trips, telephone calls, and reminds supervisor of such commitments.
- Compose correspondence of a routine and non-technical nature based upon oral instructions, brief notes, information which is readily available in the files, and from knowledge of office activities.
- Maintains confidential records and handles record keeping.
- Minimum of 1 year of general experience as a medical office technician.
- GED or High School Graduate required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Suite including MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Teams.
- Working knowledge or experience in using an electronic medical records system and to assist employees to make medical appointments.
- Knowledge of medical terminology.
- Taken a medical terminology course or worked in the capacity where they have learned medical terminology.
- Medical Office Assistant training /certification is desired but not required.
- Knowledge of English grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, vocabulary, formats, and policies to complete various correspondence.
- Knowledge of clerical procedures to maintain files, order supplies, route mail, and answer telephones.
- Exercise tact and discretion in dealing with others.
- Obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
- Must be a US Citizen.