Medical Assistant
About the role
Are you looking for a purpose-driven career? At Metrocare, we serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, accessible pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services. Alongside clinical care, researchers and teachers from Metrocare’s Altshuler Center for Education & Research are advancing mental health beyond Dallas County while providing critical workforce to the state. The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to quality gender-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families and adults we serve. The Medical Assistant performs routine, delegated clinical and administrative duties within the supervising medical staff members scope of practice consistent with the medical assistants education, training and experience. Such duties shall not constitute the practice of medicine.
Responsibilities
- Provides medical staff member extender services, including coordination of lab results, and obtaining authorizations for ordered medications.
- Administers medications as delegated by a medical staff member or APN.
- Performs venipuncture as delegated by a medical staff member.
- Obtains Vital Sign