Medical Assistant

About the role

Who We Are Looking For Are you the Medical Assistant we have been looking for? In this position, you will be able to convey your passion for helping others with a dynamic team by bringing an energetic and positive approach while working with our students! Littleton Academy is a residential treatment setting for latency-aged students that specializes in trauma informed care. Littleton provides 24-hour comprehensive care including a school on site, a full clinical staff, nursing staff, and direct care staff.

Responsibilities

• Drive students to support appointments.
• Engage in wellness programming and support medical administration.
• Develop nursing skills by educating and providing health care services to promote healthy choices that enhance students’ physical and mental well‑being.
• Create a safe and therapeutic community by providing oversight and vigilance around documenting and administering medications and completing assessments to ensure the best treatment for students.
• Help students discover what makes them feel competent and valued by working with them to develop awareness around their medical needs and how to make healthy choices around nutrition, hygiene and exercise.
• Learn to provide physical interventions and verbal de‑escalations to provide the safest therapeutic atmosphere for students.

Requirements

• Must be 21 years of age.
• Medical Assistant or Certified Nursing Assistant certificate required.
• Experience working with specialized populations of adolescents preferred.
• Maintains valid driver’s license as transporting students is required.
• Available to work evenings, holidays, weekend shifts as required.
• Background and driving record checks will be performed.

Benefits

• $2,000 bilingual bonus for new hires who speak a second language fluently (other than English) and will use it to serve clients.
• Reimbursement for registration costs and annual fees for any professional license required for work (e.g., LMHC, LCSW, LICSW, RN, etc.).
• Access to excellent Blue Cross medical and Delta Dental benefits.
• Retirement benefits including 401K matched up to $800 a year and pension after 5 years of employment.
• Professional development opportunities such as tuition reimbursement up to almost $4000 per year and discounted tuition rates to select partnership colleges and universities.
• Wellness benefits including access to employee engagement groups, self‑care resources, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Generous paid time off up to 19 days for full‑time employees in the first year (and more).

Pay

The pay range for this position is $19.00 to $25.00 per hour. The listed range reflects what we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for this role at the time of posting the position. The actual compensation an employee is offered may vary based on several factors such as experience, education, licensure, certifications and qualifications. This range may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Schedule: 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM including 1 weekend shift