Generic Job Description
Clinical Assistant I
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Performs diagnostic
testing procedures appropriate to specialty in such areas as radiology
and ophthalmology.
- Reviews patient’s chart, patient’s condition, and
physician’s notes to determine method of testing.
- Obtains and records patient information. May measure vital signs.
- Positions patients. Sets up, operates, and maintains equipment
to conduct tests and procedures appropriate to specialty.
- Records test results.
- Orders and maintains inventory of supplies.
Schedules and coordinates patient appointments and tests.
- Performs additional functions related to clinical activities.
Family: Clinical
Job Code: 527 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed
above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and
the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary
from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale
University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 527 Clinical Assistant I Grade C
Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in
one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of a broader
field of learning.
Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures
generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and
procedures.
Required Skills:
Copies data from standard or easily understandable formats.
Uses a dictionary.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, or
chronological system.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, policy statements,
etc.
Writes short informal notes, fills out simple forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors
or personal computers; responsible for basic troubleshooting and repair
or manipulation of data using published software.
Office and Administrative
Skills:
Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material.
Enters and retrieves data from semi-finished source documents on a personal
computer, requiring both some interpretation of the source document and
a basic understanding of software parameters.
Schedules and coordinates appointments.
Screens and refers callers and visitors to the appropriate individual.
Experience, Education
and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family
at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years
of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination
of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Limited variety of job tasks requiring coordinating steps/procedures.
Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general
matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex
answers that may take time to give.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on
the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities, supervisor
reviews work after completion.
Instruction provided only in new situations and methods, procedures that
are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives
that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine policies/procedures.
Impact and Consequence
of Error:
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm
or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University or to
other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions:
Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
Regular multiple or conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or
emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger dexterity.
Certification:
X-ray: Certification as a registered X-ray technician by the American
Registry of Radiologic Technologists
