Certified Medical Assistant - Relief

Job Brief

Certified Medical Assistant - ReliefSalem, OR

Employment duration : Part time Exempt Status : Non-exempt Offer Relocation? : No ID : 12631

This is a Relief (on-call) position, utilized as needed with no guarantee of hours.

What We Offer

$20-$24 / hour DOE with the ability to go higher for highly experienced candidates.

What We’re Looking For

• An MA who’s passionate about community health and working with underserved populations.
• Someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced, team-centered environment.
• A clear communicator who can build good relationships with all clinic staff and patients and interacts with everyone positively and professionally.
• A meticulous person who asks questions and clarifies information as needed.
• Someone who wants to continue learning and developing MA skills is receptive to performance feedback.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities / Duties

Maintains patient medical records, updating patient medical history and current status, including vital signs, medical treatments, and medication provided.

Reviews and updates patient immunization records.

Prepares for patient visits. Reviews the patient file, including lab requests, referrals, and correspondence. Verifies and ensures necessary reports are present.

Provides updates to the Provider team as needed.

• Collaborates with Providers to ensure efficiency of schedules and continuity of care. Discusses patients scheduled for the day, including pre-visit prep.
• Prepares and maintains patient exam rooms, ensuring that appropriate supplies are in the room and that necessary equipment is present and sterilized.
• Prepares patients for examinations, explaining medical treatment procedures as needed.
• Provides limited education and coaching for patients within scope. This includes discharge information and responding to follow-up questions.

Instructs patients about medication and possible allergic reactions.

• Responds to patients’ questions and concerns in person and via email exchange. If the question is outside of scope, direct inquiries to the appropriate person.
• Assists physicians during examinations, procedures, treatments, and minor office surgeries.
• Anticipates Providers’ needs and manages Providers’ requests.
• Collects and prepares laboratory specimens. Completes screenings. Collects and reviews patient data per protocol. Follows up on test results as directed by healthcare Providers.

Documents specimens collected and results in electronic medical record (EMR).

• Prepares and administers medication as directed by a physician.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Performs clinical responsibilities in alignment with The Joint Commission (TJC), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and YVFWC requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Graduate of a medical assistant training program.
• Certified MA or able to obtain certification within 12 months of hire.
• CPR certification within 3 months of hire.
• Bilingual (English / Spanish) required. To receive bilingual differential pay, you must demonstrate the ability to communicate at level 10 on the language proficiency scale.

About YVFWC

We serve over 197,000 patients across 28 medical clinics, 15 dental clinics, 11 pharmacies, and 49 program sites in two states.

We are Level 3 Certified as a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). With integrated services including medical, dental, pharmacy, orthodontia, primary care nutritional counseling, autism screening, and primary care behavioral health, YVFWC’s patient-centered model of care offers patients the full spectrum of care and shelter assistance, energy assistance, weatherization, HIV and AIDS counseling and testing, home visits, and four mobile medical / dental clinics.

At Farm Workers Clinic

• We will consistently trust one another to work for the common good.
• We will foster integrity by demonstrating ethical behavior and insisting on doing what we say we will do.
• We will demonstrate transparency by being candid and truthful no matter the risk.
• We will create partnerships to strengthen ourselves and our community.
• We will fight for just treatment for all individuals.
• We will let joy in.
• We have the courage to be an agent of change and refuse anything short of excellence.
30+ days ago