Medical Assistant Team Lead at One Medical in Jersey City, NJ

The Opportunity

As we continue to expand and transform the primary care experience, we’re looking for a Team Lead (Internally known as Practice Coordinator) to join us on our journey to make it drastically easier for customers to find, choose, afford, and engage with the services, products, and professionals they need to get and stay healthy! As a Practice Coordinator at One Medical, you will be the onsite lead and support your practice team members in delivering the highest quality and best experience to our patients. You will be responsible for championing best practices with our patients and team members to ensure the practice runs smoothly with a focus on operational excellence, active daily management, scheduling, inventory management, and facilities management. The Practice Coordinator is the subject matter expert on workflows and processes and serves as the practice team’s main point of contact for daily clinical operational oversight. You will motivate, support, and under direction of your Operations Manager, provide direction, and coach your teammates to ensure consistent high performance of the practice and support your team through change and growth.

You are proficient in the art of customer-service, support roles, administrative work, and motivating a team or peers, especially through times of change. You are skilled in nuanced patient communication with an emphasis on consistent high quality patient-centered experiences, and foster open communication with team members. You are currently looking for your next opportunity to support and lead a team at an organization that is transforming healthcare. If this sounds like you, we would love to connect.

What you’ll likely work on:

• Ensure operational readiness of the practice through regular team check ins, review of staffing, monitoring of task queues, adherence to standard work, and conducting end of month practice operations such as publishing shift schedules for both administrative and clinical team members
• Provide team support and leadership through training, coaching, and mentoring of team members and team recognition
• Drive performance improvement though active daily management, including office huddle facilitation and monitoring performance metrics
• Perform inventory management including ordering and receiving supplies, expiration tracking, waste minimization, and completing counts
• Support the financial health of the practice through office budget review and managing copay and revenue cycle
• Monitor and own Net Promoter Score (NPS) responses and respond to service recovery cases, escalating to the Operations Manager as needed
• In partnership with with Clinical Leadership and the Operations Manager, support quality health outcomes, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and implement improvement initiatives to manage population health
• Use impeccable C-I-CARE (a framework containing the key elements of a great interaction and effective communication that we use with patients and each other) in all patient interactions and ensure a fluid and positive in-office experience through patient intake, same day schedule management, appropriate follow up scheduling, and strong knowledge of billing and insurance
• All front of house duties including check in/check out, insurance verification, printing/paperwork tasks, prepping tests, tasking to service level expectation, perform opening and closing duties/daily office upkeep as required, including maintaining the look and feel of both patient and employee facing spaces, restocking supplies, and organization, and supporting facility, security, and IT requests as encountered
• Clinical duties may include providing best in class venipuncture services on a population ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics, and performing and assisting with extended scope duties such as, but not limited to non-blood specimen collection, EKGs/ECGs, vitals, ear lavages, vaccines, PPD tests, and swabs

What you’ll need:

• At least 1 year of experience in a supervisory or lead role in high touch customer service or patient facing healthcare
• Graduated from a postsecondary Medical Assistant program accredited by either the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES), another accrediting organization recognized by the United States Department of Education
• An active Medical Assistant certification from the National Healthcareer Association (NHA), the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA), the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT), the American Medical Certification Association (AMCA), the National Association for Health Professionals (NAHP), the National Certification Medical Association (NCMA), or registration from the American Medical Technologists (AMT), or any other recognized certifying body approved by the Board
• Proven ability to foster strong, collaborative team-dynamics that ensure a supportive and engaged team culture
• Experience working on collaborative, diverse and feedback-driven multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven track record of leading successful change management and process improvement efforts preferred
• Experience in healthcare, with a solid understanding of billing and insurance, is preferred

Physical Demands: Mostly sedentary work duties require exerting up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or small amounts of force frequently. Sedentary work typically involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods.

One Medical is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices

The range for this role is $28.00 to $31.00 per hour based on a standard full-time schedule. Total compensation packages may be based on factors unique to particular candidates, such as skill sets, depth of experience, and work location. The total compensation package for this position may also include benefits. For more information, visit https://www.onemedical.com/careers/

This is a full-time role, working 40 hours per week, based in-person with our team and patients at our Jersey City, NJ with 8 hour shifts generally taking place Monday - Friday between 7:30a - 6:00p.