Medical Assistant

Position Description: Are you committed to World Class Care?

You are more than a Licensed Medical Assistant. Your commitment to others is evident in everything you do. You pride yourself in making a difference in the lives of the sick and injured, but more than that, you are genuinely helpful and enjoy being in a team of providers who share a common commitment to others.

Your amazing attention to detail and superior organization skills are surpassed by your freakish commitment to customer care. And when it comes to injections and blood draws, well that’s no problem for you. If you are a real pro and personal passion for building health equity into the foundation of child and family well-being, this is an opportunity to be a part of a team of healthcare heroes.

Job Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Cultivate a clinical environment that places a premium on quality care, compassionate interactions, and community empowerment.
• Prepare an environment that puts a premium on the patient's experience.
• Complete registration and intake processes to prepare for patient visits.
• Collect objective and subjective data related to the patients’ chief complaint and present this information to the provider.
• Implement the treatment point of care testing and discharge instructions per provider order.
• Document patient information via our electronic medical record.
• Take patient medical histories.
• Explain treatment procedures to patients.
• Prepare patients for examination.
• Assist the provider during exams.
• Collect and prepare laboratory specimens.
• Perform basic laboratory tests.
• Instruct patients about medication and special diets.
• Prepare and administer medications as directed by a provider.
• Transmit prescription refills as directed.
• Draw blood.
• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Education and Certification:

• Medical Assistant certification (Required)
• BLS - First Aid and CPR (Required)
• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• Medical Office Experience: 1 year (Preferred)
• Vital Signs Experience: 1 year (Preferred)
• EMR Systems: 1 year (Preferred)

Preferred Attributes:

• Deep familiarity with Louisiana’s healthcare and education landscape.
• Strong team building, change management, stakeholder engagement, and systems-thinking capabilities.
• A personal passion for building health equity into the foundation of child and family well-being.
• Strong team building, change management, stakeholder engagement, and systems-thinking capabilities.

Physical & Mental Demands:

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or control; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
• Employee must occasionally lift and/or move 25-50 pounds.
• Employee may be required to stand for sustained periods of time and/or walk for moderate distances moving about or between office or clinic settings.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to communicate information and ideas effectively so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

Work Environment:

• Duties are performed both in an office environment and in clinical settings; travel to clinics using employee's personal transportation is required.
• Because this position works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.
• Regular and predictable attendance is required for this full-time position. Workdays and hours coincide with clinic and/or office hours. Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, healthcare-specific devices, and various other digital devices.

Work Authorization:

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

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