Health Assistant Job Description
Health Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Health Assistant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Health Assistant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CPR, AED, AHA, CNA, CA, CAOHC, NIOSH, CPI, ACSM
Education for Health Assistant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the health assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Education, Department of Education, Graduate Education, Health Promotion, Exercise Science, Health, Kinesiology, Psychology, Technical, Graduate
Skills for Health Assistant
Desired skills for health assistant include:
Desired experience for health assistant includes:
Health Assistant Examples
Health Assistant Job Description
- Support with daily living activities including meal preparation, accompanying client to appointments and social activities
- Deliver care to the clients specific care plan
- Manual handling including the use of ceiling hoists
- Administering feeds
- All aspects of personal care
- Assist in product and Supplier Qualification/Acquisition
- Support Buyer in product development in order to create an overall cohesive selection
- Controlled environment bee health experiments
- Molecular analysis using general molecular biology analytical methods, such as RNA extraction, Northern blot, and Western blot
- Maintenance of an experimental apiary
- We offer full time, part time and flexible hours
- On going clinical support and training from the clinical team
- Regular shift patterns
- Must be very thorough, detail-oriented and organized
- Passion for beauty and knowledge of brands and trends in the industry
- Field trial support, including logistics
Health Assistant Job Description
- Ensure accurate and timely documentation into the Occupational Health EMR for all patient care, patient interview and history related to visit, vital signs, treatments, test results
- Performs lab tests including preparing specimen, testing, and recording results in support of health center laboratory staff
- Ability to identify and solve problems in a timely manner
- Health system testing & implementation
- Assist with the ongoing data collection (surveys, interviews, intercept interviews, focus groups, ), analysis, and report writing of the Alcohol, Drug & Violence Prevention Center, Health Promotion, and other departments/functions at SHS
- Meetings and training related to the position
- Provide administrative support to clinical care team including Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse and Genetic Counselor
- Establish, update and maintain departmental files (paper and electronic) and records
- Screen telephone calls, take messages, redirect calls, and respond to routine inquiries regarding departmental business
- Assist with creating/editing executive and/or departmental documents and presentations
- Basic understanding of qualitative and quantitative data analysis/interpretation and report writing
- Experience in literature searches and reviews
- Experience building effective Power-point presentations
- Interest in program development and evaluation
- Ability to interact with the public effectively with patience and professionalism while performing a wide range of clerical functions and activities
- Knowledge of release of information laws
Health Assistant Job Description
- Establishes communication practices and channels including developing and participating in team and senior team meetings
- Provide back up support to other administrative assistants, client liaisons, and receptionist
- Oversee and execute timely completion of additional projects, as needed
- Maintains a basic understanding of how to use air sampling equipment properly and effectively and how to interpret monitoring results
- Maintains a basic understanding of technical issues
- Understands federal, state and local regulations, standards and guidelines for assigned programs
- Obtain appropriate demographic information, insurance, medical information, billing number and medical record number and enter this information into HBOC and Occupational Health Management (OHM) computer systems
- Act as office receptionist, which includes greeting patients, employees, and the general public in a courteous manner, establishing positive and appropriate relationships with patients, physicians and co-workers
- Provide support to the department by filing, photocopying, word processing, transcribing, and assisting with various projects
- Occasionally be required to collect urine specimens for drug screening and process the appropriate forms
- Self-motivated to perform duties create and complete projects with limited supervision
- 3+ years of related administrative experience in clinical/genomics/biotechnology
- Ability to work independently and juggle multiple projects with superb accuracy
- Demonstrated exceptional MS Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint)
- Ability to build partnerships across the organization and work cross functionally
- Strong verbal/written communication and problem solving skills are essential
Health Assistant Job Description
- Be required to rotate on an “on-call" status for emergency drug screens that occur after business hours
- The Administrative Assistant is the primary contact person for students, faculty, and staff who come to, email or telephone the Student Health Center
- Greets patients promptly and professionally and assists them in accessing the Student Health Center’s services
- Create and maintains the appointment schedules for providers
- Verifies demographic information and insurance information
- Answers the telephone, gathers complete and appropriate information from callers, refers the caller as needed or takes messages for follow-up by Student Health Center staff
- Collects and processes payments for medical services, to include issuing receipts, preparing deposits and reconciling daily transactions through Workday
- Maintains and orders office supply inventories, to include creating purchase requisitions, processing invoices, forms and approvals to make payments for goods and services through Workday
- Proficiently uses the medical practice management system to schedule, create reports, processes bills and post transactions
- In consultation with the director and the clinical staff, interviews, selects, coordinates, schedules, supervises, trains and evaluates student employees
- Bachelor’s degree, within five years of the desired start date in Business, Marketing, Organizational Management, Allied Health, or related areas (i.e., health promotion, health education, nursing, exercise science)
- Minimum of three years equivalent work experience required, one year at the GS-09 equivalent level
- Experience in planning and developing methods to monitor goals and objectives
- Experience in developing plans for evaluation and research
- Experience in applying a variety of communication methods and techniques to market and promote activities
- Ability to identify components of evidence based health promotion programs based on behavioral change theories
Health Assistant Job Description
- Assist in the processing of student payroll
- Prepare travel authorizations and travel payment vouchers
- Develop brochures and prepare written correspondences
- Maintain department’s websites and social media sites
- Manage information in Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Maintains professional image through appropriate attire and grooming
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested and works proficiently in a team environment
- Maintains confidentiality in accordance with federal and state laws applicable to educational and healthcare institutions
- MANAGES EXPENSESA
- PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMSA
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with higher headquarters and other agencies in the community
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, establish priorities and work in an organized manner
- Experience in working with community coalitions and strategic multi-disciplinary committees
- At least one year of experience at the GS 09 or higher level, or equivalent civilian-sector level of expertise
- Person must successfully meet requirements to hold a security clearance
- Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Preferred