Medical Assistant Training Coord

Position Purpose

This position is responsible for coordination of initial training, continued staff development and competency assessment of Renown Medical Groups’ medical assistants. This position also has Quality Assurance responsibilities and serves as a resource for all site management and medical assistants.

Nature and Scope

The position is responsible to ensure Renown Ambulatory Services’ medical assistants are trained and competent in all clinical skills performed by medical assistants in Renown Medical Group, Urgent Care, Ambulatory Services Specialty and Renown Occupational Health settings.

The position is responsible to stay current regarding changes in medical assistant’s scope of practice. The Medical Assistant Training Coordinator must maintain, and update as needed, a training manual and a training program for all medical assistants within Ambulatory Services.

The incumbent has adult education skills and is challenged to develop the medical assistant staff using a variety of adult learning principles including didactic, self-directed and clinical modalities. The position requires outcome evaluation of these teaching and learning strategies.

The position is responsible for developing and coordinating up-to-date in-service classes for existing medical assistants related to all competency-based clinical skills. This includes maintaining an up-to-date and published calendar of detailed new employee training schedules, in-service classes and competency assessments offered to all medical assistants and their supervisors/managers within Ambulatory Services.

Training to include education for knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based upon physical, motor/sensory, psychosocial, and safety appropriate to the age of the patient served and meet the standards of quality as measured by the department age-specific standard. Medical Assistant provides patient care for pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients in the ambulatory setting.

Upon completion of all new and existing medical assistant training and/or competency assessments, the Medical Assistant Training Coordinator must provide the medical assistant and his or her director supervisor/manager with a signed copy of the medical assistant’s competency assessment.

This position is responsible for providing existing Renown Ambulatory Services’ medical assistants with continuing education opportunities to keep their skills current.

This position is responsible for MA Trainee program, including reviewing candidates, program coordination, creating and maintaining curriculum to support the successful complete of program to become a Medial Assistant.

This position does provide patient care.

Disclaimer

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Minimum Qualifications

Requirements - Required and/or Preferred