Medical Assistant (After Hours- 24 hours)

About the role

Austin Regional Clinic seeks a Medical Assistant to support provider practices by assisting with direct patient care duties, including patient call backs and refill requests. The role may also perform diagnostic testing, maintain supply inventory levels, and clean and maintain medical equipment.

Responsibilities

• Rooms patients, takes and documents vital signs and prepares patients for provider exam.
• Administers medication under physician’s direction and within the scope of practice as demonstrated by completion of training and testing.
• Performs diagnostic testing such as EKGs, audiograms, typanograms, spirometry, and visual screenings as instructed and documents in EPIC EMR.
• Reviews both Provider refill in basket and assists with daily medication refill request using the ARC refill protocol.
• Reviews EPIC triage call in basket for any callbacks.
• Reviews result note in basket and calls / informs patients of normal lab results.
• Ensures rooms are properly stocked and supplies are current and within expiration dates.
• Cleans patient rooms as needed, including proper handling of dirty laundry.
• Safeguards laundry cart is stocked with fresh linens on a daily basis.
• Follows directions given by nursing team leader or supervisor.
• Fulfills other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Required to meet one of the following: Medical Assistant experience, CNA/EMT/PCT (or other comparable experience) providing direct patient care, beyond Activities of Daily Living, including experience taking manual vitals and giving medications and/or injections, or Graduate of a medical assistant program.
• Preferred: Six (6) months or more experience as a Medical Assistant.
• Medical Assistant certification preferred.
• AHA approved Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) course completion card or within 60 days of hire required.

Qualifications

• Ability to administer medications & injections within scope of position within 90 days of hire.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent phone listening skills.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal & problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
• Ability to engage others, listen and adapt response to meet others’ needs.
• Ability to align own actions with those of other team members committed to common goals.
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
• Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to perform job duties in a professional manner at all times.
• Ability to understand, recall, and communicate, factual information.
• Ability to understand, recall, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology.
• Ability to apply common sense in performing job.

Work Schedule

Clinic hours are Monday- Friday 5:25pm-9pm and Saturdays and Sundays 7:45am-5pm.

Pay

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Schedule

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Benefits

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