Medical Assistant - Correctional Health Services

About the role

The Correctional Health Services Division at the Department of Health and Human Services in Salt Lake City, Utah is seeking to hire a Medical Assistant (MA).

Responsibilities

• Provide support and assistance to nursing and provider staff.
• Maintain medical records and facilitate medical appointments.
• Prepare treatment and patient exam rooms and record patient medical history.
• Absorb and implement administrative duties as needed.
• Absorb and implement clinical duties as needed.
• Absorb and implement assist the Registered Nurse on duty as needed.

Requirements

• Experience working in a hospital, nursing, health care clinic or secure patient environment.
• Skilled in the use of computers and electronic health records.
• Demonstrated ability to take and record vital signs; perform venipunctures for laboratory samples, perform point-of-care laboratory testing, transfer and transport patients in a safe manner using proper body mechanics; recognize signs and symptoms indicating distress; and to perform CPR if needed.
• Good patient assessment skills.
• Good documentation skills.
• Detail oriented.
• Able to work well with medical staff, officers and offenders.

Qualifications

• Minimum or "day-one" qualifications: Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of individual's care; check and record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, blood sugars, weight, etc. as directed by nursing staff; perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses; authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies; prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician or medical staff; help medical staff examine and treat patients, handing them instruments or materials or performing such tasks as giving injections, removing sutures and changing dressings on wounds; collect blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing or forwarding to a laboratory; ensure all related reports, labs and information is filled out and available in patients medical records; prepares treatment rooms for patient examinations; disinfects and cleans treatment rooms following patient examinations; keep medical supplies stocked, maintain instruments, prepare sterilization as required. Properly dispose of contaminated supplies; maintain all logs and required checks (i.e. refrigerator temperatures, emergency medications, expired medications, oxygen, etc.).
• Preferred Or Trainable/on-the-job Qualifications: Knowledge of patient care, personal care techniques, and infection control measures; knowledge of medications to assist medical personnel; ability to perform venipunctures for laboratory samples, perform point-of-care laboratory testing and perform sample analyses; demonstrated ability to take and record vital signs; to transfer and transport patients in a safe manner using proper body mechanics; appropriately intervene in crisis or problem situations; basic life support certification; ability to work in a secure/locked environment; demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, take initiative, organize duties, and manage time.