Location

St. Louis, MO 63112

Scheduled Hours

40

Position Summary

Performs select administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a licensed healthcare professional; administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, patient billing, and coding medical information for insurance purposes; clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and providing medical attention as directed by physician or nursing staff.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at Forest Park; Wednesday at Center for Outpatient Health.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides clerical and administrative support, including answering phones, setting schedules and meetings, typing documents, filing and back-up support for others.
• Prepares treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean; cleans and sterilizes equipment, instruments, rooms, etc., and appropriately disposes of contaminated supplies.
• Interviews patients via phone or in person to obtain medical information or schedule various activities; creates, updates and coordinates various medical records and files.
• Interacts with patients providing various routine information such as explaining treatment procedures, medications, diets or various pre-established instructions to patients.
• Collects blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, logs the specimens and prepares them for testing; may measure patient vital signs, weight and height.
• May perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
• May show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.