Medical Assistant

Location: CHA Cambridge Family Health North

About the role

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a leader in Primary Care, supporting a highly diverse population across the Boston metro-north region. Today, CHA serves more than 120,000 primary care patients during more than 300,000 annual visits. Services are available at 13 primary care centers, 3 teen health centers, via telehealth, and through some very special programs, right in patient homes. As a member of CHA Primary Care, you will be part of a dynamic team that values creativity and innovation. You will help deliver care across the entire spectrum of primary care – with internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics and women’s health services. You will be in a team-based setting, where primary care works hand-in-hand with behavioral health, pharmacy, complex care and multilingual interpreter services. CHA is also a teaching hospital, with several primary care centers hosting CHA’s Harvard Internal Medicine residency and Tufts Family Medicine residency.

Responsibilities

• Actively and efficiently managing the flow of patients through the clinic
• Rooming patients
• Assisting providers with medical histories
• Documenting in the electronic health record
• Checking routine vital signs and point of care testing
• Assisting providers with clinical procedures
• Booking screening tests as part of the outreach process and booking follow up appointments (e.g., well child visits, vaccine booster visits)
• Participating in proactive population management of chronic diseases by generating MyCHArt messages, sending templated letters, and calling patients by telephone
• Other duties as required

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Graduation from an accredited medical assistant program or one year of previous experience as a medical assistant in lieu of program completion required
• Maintains current American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification
• Ability to write and verbally communicate in English
• Fluency in a second language is preferred
• Current experience as a Medical Assistant preferred
• Experience with administrative duties in a clinical setting preferred

Schedule

• Full time, 40 hours per week
• Shift: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM, with one day a week 11:00 AM – 7:30 PM
• Union: SH Laborers 381

Benefits

CHA has a strategic plan that charts a proactive course for our future, prioritizing competitive salaries, benefits, and professional development opportunities for employees. At CHA, you can build a long, rewarding career in a workplace that values equity and excellence for everyone, every time.