Medical Assistant – Orthopaedics
Join Cleveland Clinic’s Sports Medicine Center and become a part of one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. Cleveland Clinic’s Sports Medicine Center provides top-quality patient care to athletes at the recreational, high school, collegiate, and professional levels. Some of the teams that Cleveland Clinic works with are the Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Charge, Cleveland Guardians, and Premier Hockey Foundation.
All athletes deserve the very best sports-related care and treatment that’s one-on-one and state-of-the-art. At Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine Center, this involves conditioning to become stronger and faster, maximizing abilities, treating injuries if they do occur and improving future performance. Our center brings together top orthopaedic surgeons, sports medicine physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists, athletic trainers, registered dietitians, radiologists and exercise physiologists to keep athletes in the game. Our experts treat athletes in all sports, all ages and skill levels.
A caregiver in this position works 8:00am – 4:30pm. Hours may vary based on clinic needs. Additionally, a caregiver in this role may work at other sites as needed.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
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Assist with performing screenings and treatments by gathering and updating information related to health maintenance, identifying medication changes, updating allergy information, collecting specimens, performing tests and documenting patient care.
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Monitor and communicate changes in patient condition.
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Maintain equipment, medical supplies and examination areas.
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Perform administrative/clerical duties, such as filing, reception, scheduling, data entry and patient registration.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
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Graduate from an approved medical assisting program OR military training as a hospital Corpsman (HM), Combat Medic (68W) or Medical Service Technician (4N0X1).
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Completion of a clinical externship OR extensive clinical experience.
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
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Medical Assisting certification.
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Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA). If you do not hold this certification, you must obtain it during your new hire period.
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Successful completion of a Cleveland Clinic externship.
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Physical Requirements:
- Manual dexterity to operate office equipment.
- May require extended periods of standing, walking or sitting.
- Good visual acuity through normal or corrected vision.
- Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.
- Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.
- Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
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