Medical Assistant - Family Practice

Description :

Medical Assistant - Family Practice

Full Time, 36 hours per week, no nights or weekends

Minimum pay $16.50 per hour, can earn more with experience

Eligible for a $2,500 sign on bonus

We offer competitive salary, benefits (including medical, dental, vision), retirement, PTO, and 9 paid holidays.

If you are a compassionate professional who provides exceptional quality care, Jordan Valley is for you! We are Missouri's largest Federally Qualified Health Center founded in 2003 and we serve 75,000 patients each year.

The mission of Jordan Valley is to improve the health of our community by providing high-quality and accessible medical, dental, and behavioral health services to Southwest MO.

We're collaborative and believe in always going above and beyond as part of our commitment to deliver excellent care to our community!

Job Overview :

The Medical Assistant will perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes.

Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

Duties :

• Utilize nursing knowledge and skills in the safe implantation of basic preventative, therapeutic, and nursing care of assigned patient as evidenced by documentation and observation of positive patient care outcomes.
• Assists in data collection on the EMR.
• Carries out physician orders accurately, directly, and indirectly.
• Administers medication accurately, observing patient response, as evidenced by documentation in the medical record and lack of negative outcomes.
• Maintain and coordinate communication among patient, staff, and physician as evidenced within medical record, client, and health care team feedback.
• Report patient needs / programs and observations regarding patient's condition to the physician
• Work collaboratively with other members of the healthcare team in coordination of the patient's care as evidenced by other department feedback.
• Participates in staff development programs.
• Takes direction and initiate actions (cross / additional training) that will allow the assumption of cross-functional duties to ensure seamless patient care.
• Participates in continuing education activities and obtains required contact hours.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to encourage a healthy work-life balance.

• Health (Both HSA and FSA options and access to our Telemedicine program)
• Vision
• Free dental and life insurance, and long term disability. Affordable rates for family dental and life insurance.
• 403b retirement match on the 1st of the month after 30 days.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Day One PTO Accrual
• 9 Paid Holidays

Requirements :

Required Qualifications :

• 1-3 years relevant clinical experience or current valid medical assistant credentials.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required, must obtain within first 90 days of employment.

Preferred Qualifications

Graduation from a medical assistant program.

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